Brand New Gear!

This next year is going to be an extremely exciting year for Strainephotography. I am now shooting with some of the finest digital camera and lighting equipment in the industry. I have some big plans for some very cool new projects. I would like to send a huge thank you to all of my clients over the previous year that I have had the awesome and unique pleasure to work with. In the next month, I will be updating my entire outdated,current portfolio with this years work. Please stay tuned for this update.

Here is an image I shot at a wedding on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina just a couple weeks ago.

It's been a long hot summer!

The summer on Hilton Head Island is winding down. Today might possibly be the nicest day of the whole summer. We had a big rainstorm yesterday and it really cooled things down nicely. I was hoping for some nice waves today but that simply did not happen, nor does it happen very much at all here on Hilton Head Island.

I believe it has something to do with the Continental Shelf cutting down the size of the swell moving shoreward. You really need a big swell to have decent waves on Hilton Head. So what else?

I have updated all of my photography equipment and I am now shooting with some of the nicest digital equipment available. It has taken about 10 years of photography for me to be able to appreciate what my new camera can actually offer. The images it produces are spectacular.

I will be revamping my entire portfolio on my website very soon to include my last year of work which is not even up at all yet. This will include photos from when I was on assignment in British Columbia, as well as some work from my years operating a dark room in northern Vermont.

I am also going to try and update this blog more often. If you happen to be looking for a Hilton Head Wedding Photographer, please get in touch with me through strainephotography.com

Love the weather in all of its forms

“We are certainly having bad weather here.” “Oh, the weather is awful.” “:Everything is just fine, except for the damn weather.”

I don’t get it. Rain is cool. Clouds are cool. The wind is fun. Snow is heavy to shovel but fun to ski and make snowmen with. Hail kind of sucks. Thunder is awesome. It is natures drums and the lightning…well that is just neat to look at. Puddles can be jumped in and ice turns would be football or soccer players into hockey players. Plus it can be very cool to look at.

Now, come on you weather haters…it is time to embrace the weather in all of its forms. Embrace the cold, wet and raw days that come along, as much as the sunny ones. Before long…you will be saying. It is just beautiful; no matter what the sky decides to dish out.

All this stemming from overhearing people in my local coffee shop bitching about the rain. I should probably add that I love the rain.