Photos Overview
~ Find here a series of different albums containing all sorts of perspectives and stories. ~
First Shots
One small step for Ethan, one giant leap in possibility…
My first attempts at creatively capturing moments from around me. Friends in places around the campus of Mississippi College offered a chance to find people in interesting moments.
Many of these photos are also from a photo walk I did around campus, aiming to put my day into the perspective of the camera. I loved MC, and my time there was spent in great admiration not only for the people and history of the institution, but also the beauty of what it was there to do.
This being my first shoot for a project, these images show where I started as a picture taker after some remedial work as a teenager. Every story starts somewhere, and while I may not have those images from prior to college, these are where I really began cutting my teeth.
Lexi : Unedited
From the campus of Mississippi College
In this shoot, Lexi and I walked around Mississippi College for another photography class project. The aim was to capture as many different and unique perspectives as possible. We spent around 3 hours just enjoying the moment and looking for the interesting in the confines of the campus.
While the portrait style is well known, these images are special to me because of the person and place that are captured. Friends are a blessing for a moment, and moments, though passing, are the building blocks of a lifetime. Capturing those moments, those people, that’s the joy of what we do.
I’m thankful for Lexi’s willingness to not only help me get the A on the project, but also allow these images to be published here.
Last Song
A Collection of 10 images born from a joke…
For my final project for my photography class in college, I had a wide range of creative liberty. Originally, I was going to play it safe and do a simple portraits shoot with my good friend Rachel. After a pretty pitiful couple of hours in bad lighting, we called it quits. That afternoon, Rachel, our friend Charlie, and myself joked about creating a fake worship-band for the shoot and attempt to recreate album covers from contemporary artists. From that came Last Song Worship, a fake worship team that would be the subjects of my final project. We called Garrett and Chris, and got to work…
The intent was to make the group look professional, yet immature. I think at one point I told them “You’re good at leading worship, but not at being in front of a camera.” The whole point was that they were an up and coming group of artists, but kinda pretentious in their self image. It was a whole lot of backstory, all based on a joke about poking fun at groups that impacted us from an early age.
So, with a team assembled, style established, and a goal in mind, we went and took some pictures!
All In Weekend
Capturing the joy of worship
Right out of college, I was blessed to serve Briar Hill Baptist Church in Florence, Mississippi as their youth minister. In the Spring of 2023, we joined other local church youth groups in our area for a discipleship weekend we called “All In WKND.”
Not only did I get to bring our youth students to the weekend, but I also was able to run our social media for the weekend. This opened the door for me to work with one of my best friends, Jared Vardaman, and his team as they served as our band for the weekend.
It was a new challenge for me to shoot this kind of subject and setting, but the challenge was worth it as we were able to capture everything from rehearsal to genuine worship of Christ Jesus!
Emily Grace: Under Magnolias
It began under the magnolias…
A lot of life change happened in 2023. I was a first year graduate student at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and it was in that first semester at SEBTS that I met Emily Grace. Our first conversation was on the quad under the magnolia trees. We talked for hours and a friendship blossomed…
She needed headshots done for a class project she was doing, and I readily volunteered to help her with that. What neither of us knew is that in 2024, I would propose to her under the same magnolia trees.
While these few images were just a sampling of what we took that day, they by far are our favorites to look back on and remember through.
I hope that you enjoy sharing in the memories with us.