2010, a brand new decade, is upon us. This coming year is going to be an ambitious one for me. I am starting my own photography business. Those of you who are reading this are probably not surprised by this announcement, it has been in the making for some time now. In the past couple of weeks, I have done a variety of assignments.

Here are some examples of stuff I've done recently. Christmas, turns out is a great time to prospect for retail business.

This family really liked this shot and looking back, I need to dial down the light to lower the ambient on the back wall and hide it a bit. The kids were starting to get antsy and wanted the pictures to end, so that was something to overcome. This is inside their home.

These kids were all over the place, they were bouncing off the walls. The only thing that keeps them in one spot and smiling is you inflict pain upon yourself. I wore an elf hat with a jingle bell at the end, my wife just kept smacking the bell into my head and the kids loved it. Children are so masochistic. This was taken in a convention center lobby. The walls are really that orange.

This was a corporate Christmas party for a local business. I went the whole night hoping to avoid a group shot. Just as I was about to make my goodbyes with the owner, he asked for one. The group sort of . I think I did pretty good. I only had time to take 3 shots and this was the middle one.