The leaves are falling, the temperatures are plunging, and the hours of light get shorter every day.

But it’s not over yet- the calendar says we’ve still got more shots to get.

So let’s go!

On the newsstands now, the Winter 2016 issue of Atlanta Magazine’s HOME.

Here’s a photo from one of two photo spreads we shot for this issue.  It’s  from the home of Interior Designer/Blogger Sherry Hart, a view of her Sitting Room. 

Check out her ”Design Indulgence“ blog- it’s bold, sassy and insightful, it’s Sherry!

You may have noticed that we no longer have a presence on certain social media platforms. 

In an effort to more fully concentrate on various creative endeavors, maintain equilibrium and sanity, and push past the deafening online noise, we have pulled the plug on FaceBook and Twitter.

And honestly, it feels so good.

We are still on Instagram and will continue to post our comings/goings here on the A-M blog.

Onward.

Great shoot- great crew.

Thanks to stylist Anna Forkum (blue Cons on left) for pumpkin wrangling, leaf management, and keen eye; to Assistant Art Director Lori Sturdivant at BH&G/SIM (white Cons on right) for guidance and vision (and dinner at Patti’s- we’ll tell you about if you want…and you should), and Kari Anne and her family at Thistlewood Farm for allowing us into their amazing home.

And we are wrapped in Kentucky.

On the road, on assignment, somewhere out in Kentucky.

Current temperature 32° 

Frost advisory in effect.

Bundle up buttercup.

In the hotel, in Grand Rivers, Kentucky, on assignment, with stylist Anna Forkum, watching the election results…

Our short documentary film “GEORGIA’S FARMER VETERANS” with Jon Jackson is an Official Selection in the 2016 Cause & Effect Film Festival. 

It will screen Sunday evening, November 6th in Athens, Georgia at CINE.

An ANTHONY-MASTERSON Production. Produced by Georgia Organics through a USDA Office Of Advocacy and Outreach Grant.

We will be attending this event along with Jon Jackson.

“Child’s Play” 

Starring: Frankie Lee Cook, Graham Swancy, Russell Cook 

Produced by Christine Anthony - Directed by Owen Masterson - Song composed and performed by Frankie Lee Cook - Filmed at Blue Fork Farm, Ranger, Georgia

Happy Halloween!

interior | adjective

1: situated within or inside

2: remote from the coast or frontier 

3: existing or taking place in the mind or soul…

122 N Elm St Greensboro NC - 10/24/16

On assignment- on the road- we’ve been covering some ground.

From North Carolina to Tennessee and all points in-between.

The shot above is from an assignment for Where Traveler: The Beltline.

Yes. Even Atlanta.

On assignment and on the road, it’s another job, another hotel, and another location.

And when it looks like this, nothing beats working.

Great shoot and great crew in Wrightsville Beach, NC.

Thanks Rick and Michael- InSidesign.

The crew from Atlanta Magazine’s HOME shoot at Sherry Hart’s home for the Winter 2016 issue.

Atlanta Magazine Editor-in-chief Betsy Riley, stylist Ginny Branch, C + O, new HOME art director Alston Wise, and interior designer Sherry Hart.

The bad and the beautiful- don’t mess with this tough, talented gang.

The Fall 2016 issue of Atlanta Magazine’s Home with images shot by yours truly.  

To see the full story, head to the newsstands or have a look here

Great shoot today.

And what else can we say but, that’s a wrap!

Laboring on Labor Day. 

We are with the incredible Insidesign team Michael Matascik and Rick Anthony Bonner.

Bambino!

There are no easy words to capture the complexities of Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens.

We will not even try; instead we’ll just offer one random glimpse.

This is a shot inside The Mirror House.

With Rick Anthony Bonner and Michael Matascik of InsiDesign getting the shots today.

Quick minds all on the same track; nothing beats skill and experience.

Except maybe being able to enjoy what you’re doing.

And we do that.

Going through 1000’s of film transparencies- sorting, saving, jettisoning.

Years and years of stock work and assignments and personal projects.

And it’s been great to go back; a retrospective viewing as it were.

So many images, so many memories…

This one is a keeper.

… and watch the light play across the water.

Have a groovy weekend ya’ll.

Before you could immediately see what you just shot- you couldn’t. 

We are talking about neg film in the pre-digital days- when the lab gave you a proof sheet and the images were finally revealed. 

You had to trust that you knew what you were doing and that you were doing it right.

Now… that’s not to say we miss the old days, it did however require a certain level of skill.

For our photographer friends to try: cover the monitor on your DSLR and go “shoot a roll” of say, 36 exposures. (You’ll need more than a cell phone to do this obviously).

When done, uncover the back and check your work- see what you really shot. 

Not quite what you expected?

Still-life with bamboo grass.

Sometimes the most beautiful things are the quiet wonders hiding in plain sight in the garden.

We are very proud to have GROW! be a part of this project by ECOMOVE in Germany. 

The main focus will be to emphasize the economic potential of green technologies with regard to occupational opportunities and the involvement of young people. 

“…and are exhausted and nasty and stinky at the end of the day.”

In the edit suite cutting a four part series on veteran farmers in Georgia.

In pre-production on a short video project for Dixon Rye.

In a tight schedule with photo shoots, film shoots, and dinner parties.

In a spin, loving the spin that I’m in, under that old black magic called love.

Page from a found photo album.

Person is unknown, place is St. Simons Island, circa mid to late 1930’s.

Looking out over the Atlantic Ocean.

Need we say more?