Had a blast despite battling the weather and wind in Lebanon Ohio this Saturday. The winds put my poor Quest tent to rest. Time to upgrade to a much better version.

Despite this foul day, I was fortunate to win 2nd Place for Best of Show! The voting was across all 70+vendors, not just photography, so I am more than excited of being awarded this honor. This is the second year in a row where I have won a “Best in Show” honoe at the Warren COunty Festival of the Arts.

So what did I learn from this bad weather??

1. It is hard to have fun at an art festival when you are afraid to let go of the tent leg pole.
2. I would have paid a fortune for a better tent as I saw the wind going after my 27 x 37 framed prints
3. Talking to other vendors, the Trimline tent was by far the best performer under these conditions. My next buy!
4. If you are worried about your tent or equipment holding up, go ahead and nreak down early, go talk to the event hosts and apologize and suck it up. It I would have not stopped, the weather did get much worse later and my prints would have been destroyed.

Wow did I have FUN this Saturday! I had the pleasure of helping out Chisano and Montgomery County by taking photos of children coming up for adoption. It was so much fun: the kids were so easy to work with and they had fun too. Also, my daughter Brylen joined in and worked as my assistant by helping out with lighting...boy did I need her help! We did the photos shoot at Carillon Park in Downtown Dayton.

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The local parks are perfect for Portraits. The flower are in full bloom and the grass is perfect green.

Just spent the morning shooting photos for Jaclyn and Josh and we had a GREAT time. Shot some photos at Cox then went into Germantown for some fund photos on a caboose, covered bridge, and old car.

Call me for availability and let's get shooting!

Check them out! I just visited the great US Southwest and had a BLAST! Spent a couple of weeks on the road shooting America's gorgeous locations throughout the southwest...Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Colorado Dunes, Colorado western mountains, Antelope Slot Canyons, Bryce Canyons in Utah an don and on....

Go to my "New Photos" link or look under "National Park Photos" to see the ones I have edited so far!

Talk to you soon!

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Brian's 2008 Art Festival attendance calendar is coming soon! Read More...

Brian wins a huge Marriott contract for the downtown location by University of Dayton...hundres of rooms will display his work in the coming months! Read More...

The Fine Art market is taking off! I have an entire collection showing in the Express Yourself Gallery in downtown Xenia (by the way, they make GREAT COFFEE there).

Also, I was invited to be one of only 20 artists showing in "Art on the Trace" at the Yankee Trace Golf club on the evening of 9 Feb. I am honored to participate...stop by and check me out! Starts around 6pm and open to the public

Come check out a full gallery of my work at the Express Yourself Coffeehouse Gallery in Downtown Xenia. It will run all of January and will be discounted from my Louisville Gallery prices. Works range from simple matted & unframed photos all the way up to my custom 27 x 37 framed & matted prints. All are signed and numbered. The gallery is located is one block east on the main intersection in downtown Xenia.


I'll see you there!!!!