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By kendrick Blogs March 5, 2009 0

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I'm an Atlanta portrait photographer available to shoot your headshots, corporate portraits, studio portraits, location portraits, editorial portraits, commercial portraits, advertising portraits, and whatever else you want me to shoot. I'm easy to work with and value each one of my clients. Get in touch with me if you'd like to talk. Thanks for reading!

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Happy “Gotcha Day” for #goodboylevi 9 years to

Happy “Gotcha Day” for #goodboylevi 9 years today! This photo was his freedom ride home from being adopted.

Just got back from an extended weekend trip to Cum

Just got back from an extended weekend trip to Cumberland Island to film some stuff for a @wild_cumberland project. Photos don’t do it justice!

The sun hurts! 📷: @jen_9thhouse

The sun hurts! 📷: @jen_9thhouse

Ok I only got one buyer on my heart shaped leaves

Ok I only got one buyer on my heart shaped leaves photo from yesterday (thanks mom!). So I’m ditching that niche and going into abstract bottle art. Prints still $15k! DM me!

I’ve decided heart shaped leaves are my new nich

I’ve decided heart shaped leaves are my new niche. Prints available starting at $15,000! DM me!

@jen_9thhouse and I spent the majority of June han

@jen_9thhouse and I spent the majority of June hanging out in Colorado (plus a big portion of time driving to/from). You might remember some of my posts from that era. We stayed in an Airbnb that overlooked this beautiful windy river called the South Platte River. So every day I looked out onto this river and watched the pack of Mule Deer that lived here in the field. Eventually, I took the drone out and got a few nice photos. Maybe someday I'll share them.

almost exactly a year ago we were in Boston checki

almost exactly a year ago we were in Boston checking out the city for funsies (and to get away from the August heat in ATL). We did some strolling around and walked through some really great parks. One of them had these little boats with benches and you could get taken for a little ride around the pond. So we did that. This is my image from that adventure.

Another fun drone shot from our March BVI adventur

Another fun drone shot from our March BVI adventures. That's our boat at the bottom of the image.
A slightly funny story:

I was flying the drone around and as I was bringing the drone in for a landing I was looking at the remote and not where I was walking and I tripped on some steps. No big deal, I landed the drone and then put it away. About 10 minutes later I walked by the boat captain and he said "what happened to your toe?!" and I looked down and a big portion of my toenail had ripped off and it was bleeding. I hadn't even noticed. I guess flying the drone causes enough stress that I'm able to block out pain!

Fun drone shot from March when we hitched a ride o

Fun drone shot from March when we hitched a ride on a 52' catamaran in the BVI and island hopped with some friends.

Levi had his teeth cleaned and the vets have to us

Levi had his teeth cleaned and the vets have to use the gas to make that happen! #goodboylevi

It's me. Hi. I'm the asshole, it's me! Ok, so this

It's me. Hi. I'm the asshole, it's me! Ok, so this one goes all the way back to 2007, when I was down in Mexico working for the @santafeworkshops as a digital media guru/support. But while there, I got to learn/explore/shoot a lot with the students and visiting faculty. I got to travel on some excursions and I took an attitude of ‘always say yes’ to whatever I was invited to, so ultimately I was shooting a new (to me) and exciting culture and geography every single day. I was rapidly developing as a photographer and figuring out my vision of what kind of photographer I wanted to be.

This image is a photo of me bumping into the boundary of what kind of photographer I didn’t want to be. In the moment, I didn’t see a problem with how I was going about making images. Yeah, I was in the street but I wasn’t blocking them from doing their art. But the truth is, I was in the way. I was drawing too much attention to myself and I was invading the performance space. I was only thinking about the shot I wanted to get and I wasn’t thinking about how my actions might affect the performers in the parade. I was a foreigner not respecting the locals.

The woman just to my left in this photo, she reacted to me being there. She shook one of things she was holding in my face and said something in Spanish I understood to be, “get the F out of the way!”.

It’s a small moment that I wish I could go back and change, but these types of experiences (and a healthy amount of self-reflection) can shape us to become better photographers and better citizens of the world. I know I continue to learn every year that goes by, but I don’t always realize the lessons I’m learning as they are happening.

This photo was taken by Alfi Rico.

from my 2017 South Africa travels. That was a spec

from my 2017 South Africa travels. That was a special trip for me because ever since I got serious about photography, I had this secret wish that I could get paid to go to Africa and shoot stuff (with a camera!). It was the idea that my skills were good enough for the extra travel costs. I mean why wouldn't they just hire somebody local? That's how it was in my head... once I reached the point people paid me to travel internationally to use my camera, I felt like I had proven to myself that I was good enough. That's not an easy hurdle to climb over either. Imposter Syndrome is a constant battle. But this trip will always be a reminder to me that I have earned my stripes.

Plus it was also special because it was so much fun! I had an amazing 3 weeks over there and would love to go back.

PS: scroll backward in my feed (for awhile) to see a ton more images from the trip!

I'm now going to start marketing myself as a "menu

I'm now going to start marketing myself as a "menu photographer". What do you think of my first shoot?

Took this one in 2014 so I know the skyline has ch

Took this one in 2014 so I know the skyline has changed a ton since then.

Great sunset last night in Fort Lauderdale!

Great sunset last night in Fort Lauderdale!

I saw this view in my rearview mirror as we headed

I saw this view in my rearview mirror as we headed east, back home, away from the mountains. I did the thing, like in the movies, where you hit the brakes, turn the wheel super hard, drift a 180 degree turn and are now facing the other direction. That's what I did. Then I whipped out my iPhone (actually it was just stuck to the magnet on my dash cuz I had the google map pulled up on it) and I got the shot before it disappeared. I mean I don't think it was going anywhere, but it's more dramatic if there's a sense of urgency.

That's Pikes Peak and we got some nice views of it as we passed through Colorado Springs. But it was raining, so the views were blurry.

DId you guys know it's a thing to push a peanut up that mountain with your nose? The people that do it are called "The Pikes Peak Peanut Pushers". Google it. I feel like that's something my friends over at the @peanutinstitute might find interesting.

Busted out the drone today! Someday I may share th

Busted out the drone today! Someday I may share the footage/photos but likely it just stays on my computer like most of the stuff i shoot for fun!

The lovely @jen_9thhouse and I, hanging out at the

The lovely @jen_9thhouse and I, hanging out at the @royalgorgebridge.

Somewhere in Kansas or maybe Oklahoma. We rerouted

Somewhere in Kansas or maybe Oklahoma. We rerouted to avoid dirt roads and tornados and we were rewarded with views like this.

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Did it all for the gram!

A mouse grabbing crumbs at my gate in the airport.

A mouse grabbing crumbs at my gate in the airport. Should I try to catch him and bring him on my flight, then let him out on the airplane just for the LOLs? #cleveland #clevelandrocks

Took me awhile but I finally figured out how to sn

Took me awhile but I finally figured out how to snorkel without dying.

The view from my bed.

The view from my bed.

Todays moment of zen!

Todays moment of zen!

So far so good on the plan to avoid sunburn!

So far so good on the plan to avoid sunburn!

This ain’t so bad.

This ain’t so bad.

I’ll be chillin with friends on a 52ft Catamaran

I’ll be chillin with friends on a 52ft Catamaran in the BVI this week.

First flight of the new year! #atlantatosouthflori

First flight of the new year! #atlantatosouthflorida

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Todays office! (@verticalriver.co is here doing so

Todays office! (@verticalriver.co is here doing some filming with @wild_cumberland)

from a New York trip in 2017.

from a New York trip in 2017.

Any guesses what this is?

Any guesses what this is?

Neighbor wanted a clean slate in their yard and cu

Neighbor wanted a clean slate in their yard and cut down about 25 trees. Some were rotting and some were healthy. Kind of bummed.

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Instagram post 17948381594158801

From the archives, 2018 photo by @desireegardnerp

From the archives, 2018
photo by @desireegardnerphotography

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Instagram post 17982561436606162

In Boston last week strolling by the water and we

In Boston last week strolling by the water and we came across these guys doing some pretty athletic jumps into the water!

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Instagram post 17886983177695955

My beautiful wife! @jen_9thhouse

My beautiful wife! @jen_9thhouse

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