A Day in the Studio

Hi Y'all!

Beautiful week with all the wild flowers blooming! Achoo!

Did a photo shoot in a dance studio this week! What creative fun it was. The shoot was to create images for Bob Cheever's next CD that will be released in the near future. It will be called "Smoke and Mirrors." Go to www.bobcheevers.com to see and hear more of his great work.

We all put on our creative hats and went to work. Thanks to Sharon Berger and Noreen Tierney for all their creative beauty and brawn! Could not have done it without you beautiful ladies!

Attached is one of the images from the shoot. Stay tuned for more information on Bob's upcoming CD and the resulting CD cover!

The "Seeing Red" Rally in downtown Austin was a great event. ~350 people turned out of all ages. Attached are two pictures from the rally with many more still in the queue.

Book your appointments for bluebonnet portraits soon! Also, now is the time for outdoor photography of any kind! Give me a call an we will get it scheduled!

Life is a Threshold

I truly believe there is a threshold to everything.

The definition of threshold:

(1) : end, boundary; specifically : the end of a runway (2) :the place or point of entering or beginning

Everything Has a Threshold

Literally, we experience it every time we walk through doorways or jump out of airplanes* and figuratively, when we try something new. At first it is very exciting. Awhile into it, it becomes a chore. But, if you make it through the threshold, the end becomes the beginning. It is like learning a new language. Day after day you practice and then what seems like "all at once" you become fluent. I watched this occur when my son learned to read. All of a sudden his ability took off and there was no looking back.

Maybe it all ties into fear. Fear holds us back. It keeps us from going through the entrance. Instead we stay at the end of the runway. Like walking along the shore instead of diving in and seeing all there is to see. "Leap and the net will appear."(A Zen Saying) *I don't know about a net but the parachute opened.

Fear of success maybe... If there is success, then what? Astronauts must feel like that after returning from a mission.

I take pictures of many different types of thresholds. Marriage, engagements, graduations, award ceremonies, babies and mile markers with children, launching of products, book jacket and CD covers ... Those images are a documentation of thresholds. Some are yours and some are mine.

Attached are what I believe to be very significant thresholds.

Have a beautiful weekend!

Event Photography!!

Just recently did event photography for THBI Inc. Click on http://www.thbi.com/luminary-dinner-2011/ for examples of event photography!

Keep www.lascottphotography in mind for your event photography needs!

Natural Light!

I started a photo shoot this week using studio lighting and noticed the light coming in from the nearby window on a rainy day. I turned off all electronics and used natural light and a reflector for the attached images. I loved the results! Please take a look for yourself.

natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world...

I stepped away from technology and used what was there. There is so much man made everything out there from cell phones, to computers and with computers of course there is Facebook and e-chat and Skype... Also, in reference to man made...how many of you would rather look at a landscape that was created by nature or a landscape created by man such as skylines? I choose nature....

What if we were to turn off all electronics in our world and begin to notice, once again, what is naturally there. I bet everything would become more vivid from the color of a sunset to the smell of the rain. Without the electronics there would be no compulsions to turn away from what is right there before us. Use nature as your headphones, your eyes to see beauty, and have lunch with a friend with the cell phones turned off...

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

Phil Brown La La Land at La Zona Rosa

Hey all! I had the pleasure of photographing Phil Brown, formerly from Little Feat, opening for Robin Trower at La Zona Rosa. Austin Texas! Go to this link on YouTube to see and hear the performance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TocpBHLTuIA Attached also is a picture I took of Phil Brown and another of Robin Trower! Photography again in Austin Texas!

LA Scott

http://www.lascottphotography.com/