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My Passion & My Work

Hey there and welcome to the Blueye Photography blog. My name is Troy and I'm a wedding and portrait photographer located in Austin Texas. I love making photos that are real... real moments, real smiles, real love. I'm not sure that I can put my photography style into a single category, but you can be sure that I'm looking for the best light and the most creative angles I can.

In my blog you'll find everything from sneak peeks of client sessions to personal information. My life is (almost) an open book and I like to share as much as I can. Most entries will include photos... this is a photographers blog after all. I also love feedback about my photography/posts/website/life so please comment as much as you like. I read them all and try to respond to each and every one.

After you've read through some posts and gotten to know a bit about me feel free to check out my portfolio site using the portfolio link above. The blog is updated more frequently than my site, but you won't want to miss checking out my portfolio either.

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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Jen + Lewis: eSession slideshow

Monday, April 7, 2008 at 9:40pm Posted in Engagement, Slideshow

I love slideshows! Make sure you turn up your speakers. Enjoy.

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Melanie + Les: the engagements

Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 1:38am Posted in Engagement, Portrait

So here it is 2:20am and I’m blogging… with good reason. Laura and I had the pleasure of shooting Melanie and Les’ engagement session today yesterday in Weimar, Texas and I wanted to get these posted. After traveling nearly 6 hours today (1 hour to Laura’s, 2 hours to Weimar, 2 hours back to Laura’s, and 1 hour back home) I got home around midnight and needed to wind down. What better way to do that than go through this fantastic couples’ photos and pretty up a few for the blog. They are a very outdoorsy couple (think hunting and fishing rather than running or hiking) and I think we did a great job capturing their personalities, relationship, and lifestyle. Enjoy the photos.

Meet Pepsi… he was full of energy from the moment we arrived until almost the end of the session (see below for why I say almost)

Melanie and Les have great chemistry and were laughing and having fun during the entire session.

Holy lens flair Batman!

Even though they were laughing for most of the session they were still able to “get serious” when asked.

(7 more photos after the jump)

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A little art

Friday, April 4, 2008 at 10:22pm Posted in Just For Fun

Sometimes I get a little creative bug and decide to try something fun. Tonight was one of those nights. Is it art? Beats me, but it was fun to experiment.

And shout out to Gordon McGregor who found this awesome little short about the topic “what is art?”. I can’t remember the name of this show, but the premise was the producers performed interviews with real people and then overlaid the audio onto clay-mation animals. Very creative and very funny.

Edit: The name of the show was Creature Comforts (Thanks Erik!)

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