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Tory & Sean - NOLA Photo School Shoot

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Last week I was I had the opportunity to be teaching along side two of my closest friends, Beebe Tran & Mark Eric, for the first NOLA Photo School. During the workshop we had a live shoot and my models were Tory & Sean. I actually photographed their wedding day over two years ago and I now have the pleasure of working with Tory in the office. It was such an amazing afternoon of shooting and I just wanted to share of few of my favorites. Can't wait for the next NOLA Photo School!

Blessings. Jason

New Orleans Street Portraits

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I am out of town this week but I just thought that I would share a few personal images... Blessings. Jason

Leica M4-2 | 24mm Summilux | Kodak TRI-X 400

Leica M4-2 | 24mm Summilux | Kodak TRI-X 400

Leica M4-2 | 24mm Summilux | Kodak TRI-X 400

Leica M4-2 | 24mm Summilux | Kodak TRI-X 400

Out of the office

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Just wanted to put up a quick post that I will be out of the office for the remainder of the week and will return all emails/phone calls when I get back in on Tuesday. Thanks

Acadiana Rescue Foundation of Louisiana (ARF-LA) fundraiser shoot this Saturday!

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 I just wanted to share some info for an upcoming fund raising shoot that I  am involved with this coming Saturday. We are doing a fundraiser for ARF-LA which rescues stray, abandoned, & surrendered pet and finds loving homes for them. I have two rescued dogs of my own so this is something that is near and dear to my heart... Please bring your pet out on Saturday and make a small donation to this great cause!

I am attaching the poster/info below and please feel free to email me if you have any questions. I hope that we have a ton of people come out to support this great cause!

You can visit their website and Facebook page for more information.

http://www.facebook.com/arfla http://www.arfla.org

Blessings. Jason

Special thanks to my good friend Jamie Orillion for doing an amazing job designing the poster for us. You can view more of his work here. aarfposter.jpg

Inspiration

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I rarely post much that does not have something do directly with myself just because I honestly rarely have the time to do much "leisure" surfing on the internet and spending most of my days being as "productive" for every minute of the day that I can be. I came across this video while jumping around couple sites and it is not often that I find myself literally mesmerized by what is on my computer and unable to even look away at anything else in the room.

This was one of those rare times. By the time the video was over I really was just sitting with my mouth open (probably had been this way for a couple minutes). I was so amazed at the level of work and creativity that went into everything that I couldn't help but share. The attention to detail and strength of compositions is just nothing short of incredible.

Take a couple minutes out of your day, no matter what you are doing and make sure to watch it in full screen :) I hope that it inspires you as it did for me.

Blessings. Jason

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7809605[/vimeo]

LA Photo Road Trip... A couple images of people...

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I just wanted to post a couple quick images that I have shot in the last 3 days before leaving this morning (at 6am :). Here are just a couple images of people that we have run across in the last 3 days and hopefully will be many more to come.... Blessings. Jason

One of my favorites from the trip so far.... l1001944.jpg Leica M9 | 24mm Summilux

This guy showed me how to play dominoes.... l1002024.jpg Leica M9 | 24mm Summilux

Mr. Paul a junk collector l1001777.jpg Leica M9 | 24mm Summilux

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Out of town on the road this week...

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This is a week that I have been looking forward to for a while... Just myself, a passenger (my good friend Jamie), my Leica (camera), and the open road... We are taking the week to just do some creative shooting before the year is up and to come away refreshed for the new year. We we will be traveling throughout Louisiana for the week and I will do my best to do a couple updates throughout the week here on my blog. The best way to get in touch with me is by email if you need anything. I hope that everyone has a fantastic week... Here is an image that I shot with my Leica last week....

Blessings. Jason

l1001504.jpg Leica M9 | 50mm Summilux

Blue Cross Angel Awards

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This year I had the privileged of being a part of photographing this years winners of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana Angel Award. Every year BCBSLA gives away $20,000 to 8 different organizations that work with bettering the lives of youth. This Thursday is the actual awards nights where all of the sideshows that we photographed/compiled will be shown and I hope to be able to share some of them here. For now I just wanted to share an image from each of the winners, and I will be out for the remainder of this week getting everything finished up for the awards. I hope that everyone has a beautiful weekend. Blessings. Jason

Shot for Minh Nguyen of Vayla New Orleans who works with Vietnamese youth in New Orleans East030.jpg

Jill Rigby Garner of Manners of the Heart who is an author and teaches art education in Baton Rouge094.jpg

Phillip Thomas of Pilots for Patients who flies patents to hospitals that they might not otherwise have the means to fly to098.jpg

Jean McManus of The Imagination Library in Eunice which gives a free book a month to children under the age of 5125.jpg

Betsy Baldwin of APIL which is a recreational inclusion league for kids with and without disabilities210.jpg

Vicki Ellis of Heritage Ranch which teaches life skills to  kids at the alternative school in Baton Rouge 226.jpg

Lynn Hobbs of The Eyes Have It which works inside schools to provide kids with needed eye exams and glasses in Baton Rouge & New Orleansjc1_9049.jpg

Shot for Janet Leslie of The JL Foundation which provides financial and emotional support to families with a child diagnosed with Lukemia in Maurepas 015.jpg

Out for the rest of the week...

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I just wanted to throw up a quick post that I will be out for the rest of the week. Also we had major computer hardware problems for the past 2 weeks so sorry for any delay in email/processing and I will get back to things as soon as I am back in. Here is an image that I really like from a recent wedding that I will be putting some images up from soon...

Blessings. Jason

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Out for the weekend...

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I just wanted to throw something up quickly as I will be out of town for the rest of the week and will be back in next week. Here are just a couple images from a trip that I just took to NYC.

Blessings. Jason

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M8 Random Shots...

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I hadn't posted much personal/random work, so I thought I would just post an interesting collection of images this week. Here are just a couple and a couple of them are even worth writing a little about :) Blessings. Jason

A random guy who had semi-wild horses on the beach when I was in the bahamas....l1020723.jpg Leica M8 | 21mm Summilux

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Some really drunk people in Laguna Beach and Jory Cordy. Jory and I just got finished beating them in doubles ping pong after they had been heckling us & talking smack :) They were more than happy to pose for a picture :)l1020183.jpg Leica M8 - 24mm Summilux

Tim Landry - a local Lafayette Photographer

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I think she said something like, "just don't put this on the internet"l1018987-2.jpg Leica M8 |24mm Summilux

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My dad and his 13 year old Great Dane (Spyder). Just a little while before he had to put him down...l1017633.jpg Leica M8 | 24mm Summilux