MMA Cage fight photos!

This past Saturday I went down to Columbus Ohio to warch & take photos of my friend Brian King fight! It was a really fun night with a lor of great fights! If you have never been to one I highly recommend you going.

Here are a few of my favorites from the night! I took these with my Canon 5D2 which was a lot better than last time when I used my old 5D....all of the light flares and blotches of light in the photos are from the chain link fence. I wanted to put a latter up so I could take photos from above but it didn't work out.
I love the above photo! You can see the guys skin rippling from Brian's kick!

It was by far the most entertaining fight of the night. Brian never stopped attaching the 1st 2 rounds but his opponent never gave up and kept caming back for more.

Brain also had one of the biggest crowd of fans and they never stopped cheering.

The fight went all 3 rounds and Brian won! Which is his 2nd straight pro win!

Congrats Brian!

Here are some photos from some of the other fights.

Thanks for viewing and let me know what you guys think!

Jessica & Austin Engagement photos!

Here are some of photos I took of them at Wildwood park in Toledo. It was really pretty there and I want to go there in the spring and take some photos.
I will be shooting their wedding in May and I'm very excited, should be a lot of fun.

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I should be posting some MMA cage fighting photos in the next couple days!

New Kitten!

This is our new kitten! He is 8 weeks old.
He haven't been able to pick a name for him.
my family is split between Mac & Leo.
I want to name him Mac after the character on Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
What do you guys think??
He is very energetic and very hard to keep him still to take a photo of him.

The kitten with our dog Zooey. Zooey is afraid of cats b/c our other cat Ed used to beat her up when she was a puppy. So Zooey was scared of the kitten at first but is now starting to like him more!

Mac is defiantly not scared of Zooey though, he is always trying to play with her. But Mac hasn't had any luck with our other cat Ed who is 12 years old. Ed hisses, growls, and bats at Mac....Ed's a grumpy old man.

Mac taken a nap on our couch.

I love these photos!

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Canon AE-1 film project

I recently bought a 1978 Canon AE-1 35mm film camera and a 50mm f/1.8 lens on ebay for around $60. The camera works just fine, so I have been shooting with it a lot. I have shot with medium format film before but never 35mm. It's been a lot of fun, shooting with film really makes you take your time and think about of what & why you are taking a photo. It feels so weird to be shooting with a camera that is 8 years older than me! It is fully manual, no auto setting...all it has a is a light meter. It's amazing how spoiled we all are with our digital camera these days, we get to take as many photos as we want and see them instantly. We are used to having scene modes, fully auto settings, and most people would have no idea how to use a film camera. I think it's a great way for people to learn/practice/get better at photography because it makes you take the photo, you have to pick the aperture and shutter speed. When I switch back to my Canon 5D2 it feels like I'm using rocket science technology!!
But overall I have really enjoyed shooting with this camera and have liked the images it was produced. These photo barely have any editing done to them...just some color adjustments.

let me know what you guys think!!

Cory senior pics

Here are some photos I took of Cory!

I really like how these turned out!

This was a fun shot!

These shots are very similar to some I took for Tyler but I really like them!

Will be post more photos soon!

Tyler Senior pics part 2

Here are some more photos I took of Tyler.

Tyler wrestles for Elmwood, I've coached him for 3 years now!

Here are some football shots, it was pretty chilly out : /

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The Big House - Michigan vs. Penn St.

I went to the Michigan vs. Penn St. game this Saturday with my mom, uncle Dave, and mom's cousin Rob. Even thought Michigan played like crap and it was freezing cold and raining, we still had a lot of fun. Ann Arbor is a really cool town and Michigan Stadium"The Big House" is amazing!! It is the biggest stadium in America and the third biggest in the world! There was over 110,000 people in attendance that day! And considering how big the stadium is there really isn't a bad seat.

The top photo is 3 pics put together and the bottom one is 5!
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This photo was taken from the very top of the stadium.

And this photo was taken from my seat.
I highly recommend going to the Michigan stadium to see a game, it's awesome!

I will be posting some sweet new stuff soon!

Band photography!

Friday night went with my parents to watch our friend Tony's band play....they're call Myndcrym. They're a hard metal band. I went to high school with Tony, we wrestling and ran cross country together and now he is my mom's personal trainer!

These photo were taken at the Omni in Toledo Ohio, the lighting was pretty sweet and I really like how the photos turned out!!
I love this photo of the drummer!

This is the band that played before Myndcrym...I don't know the band's name.

It was a lot of fun taking these photos, it's been awhile since I've taken live show photos! I really like and want to shoot some more!!

Wild Life Safari Pics!!

All of these photo were taken at the Wild Life Safari near Ceder Point. This place has a ton of animals in this giant fenced in area that you can drive your car through. I took all of these photos out our van windows. This place is a lot of fun, you can touch the animal and feed them. This is my families second time visiting, if you go you'll want to bring a vehicle that you wont mind getting dented/scratched but the animals!

I really like how these photos turned out! I love the top photo, it looks like my old guinea pig but with horns! lol

The animals would put their head in out window to get the food, it was pretty cool!

The giraffe was the our favorite

I will be posting some video from the wildlife safari soon on my facebook!

My Mom Shelley - check out her blog!

This is my mom, Shelley. She is a great mom, she has managed to raise me and my 3 younger brothers, which isn't an easy task. It's not easy being the only female in the family....when it comes to movies me, my brothers, and dad want to watch "shoot em up" movies, she wants "chick flicks" or when she gets a new outfit or shoes and wants an opinion on how they look on her we're never much help. I think it's her great sense of humor that has kept her sane over the years. And I think it's her sense of humor that we all share and it is one of the reasons why we get along so well as a family! We enjoy watching the same TV shows, find randoms things in life to be funny....we just laugh a lot!


My mom is also a very talented writer! She has a blog that she updates weekly with funny, uplifting, and inspiring stories. I highly recommend that you check out her blog! Read! Follow/subscribe! there's the link... shelleyrlee.blogspot.comI took these photos 3 weeks ago! The top one ways taken on our front porch and the bottom one was taken on the road we live on by the bridge.

Thanks for viewing and don't forget the look at my mom's blog!
shelleyrlee.blogspot.com