I am alive, I promise.............

My apologies to all for not updating in what appears to be a huge amount of time. My "real" job is crazy right now and will be for a couple of weeks. I have been shooting, a bunch actually but just no time to write about it. That will all change though here very soon as I get back in to shooting and posting and running this crazy little business. I have some cool stuff coming up as well so stay tuned.

Thanks for reading, God Bless.

CB

Life's Little Buddies

You got a little buddy?
I do. His name is Caden. He is 4 about to turn 5 in July.
I had to shoot some stuff for my church last night and it had been a long day at home for Wifey and the kiddo's so I told Caden to get his stuff he was coming with me. "I want to shoot pictures too Dad!" I heard him holler down the hallway. "Okay!" You can use your Mom's camera I thought. So he grabbed his crocs, his bag of skittles (all photographers must have their energy bars Mom) and his Mom's point and shoot digital camera. He took a few shots of traffic from the back seat of the Golden Grocery Getter (Triple G we call her) and had some fun.

We stopped off at the local Huey's for a burger and some mini-corn dogs and he asked me, "Dad, how many friends do you have?" Before I could answer he gave me multiple choice, "1, 2, 6 or 10?" I said 10 and he got excited. Then he asked me who my best friend was. "You" I replied and he really got excited.

He followed me around the church gym as I shot recreation photos of a basketball game and then on to the sanctuary as we shot some images for the local high school graduation being held on the grounds. He had a blast and matched me shot for shot just about. Here are a few of Caden.

Caden at the gym shooting me as I was shooting Basketball. I could see his reflection in my LCD screen on the back of my camera and I quickly turned and shot this one and the next one before he knew what happened.

He obviously got a kick out of this one.

This next one we were walking across the balcony of the sanctuary during the graduation commencement. The sanctuary holds roughly 4500 folks and it was full. He was a trooper as we shot from 3 locations and he was right there beside me every step of the way. I looked back to make sure he was following me and hadn't lost his crocs and saw the intent look on his face so I held the camera backwards and shot this without him knowing I was shooting, nothing fancy, but it tells a story.

Thanks for reading, I will steal his memory card tonight and might try to post some of his pics this week, we are shooting baseball and volleyball tonight. He's pretty excited about this one too. Guess I will have to be on the lookout for a beat up Digital SLR to get him shooting more if he wants too. This was a blast for me probably more than it was for him I am sure.

Hug your little buddy or buddies tonight and remember, good or bad, all we do will be passed down to future generations, lets make those things rewarding & Godly.

Thanks and God Bless.

Chris (& Caden)

2 Corinthians 7:1 -"Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God." -Amen

Blind Squirrels

This past week I get invited down to the "Ponderosa" outside of Birmingham, Alabama for the annual Vicious Fishing Writers Conference. Vicious Fishing Line is a great bunch of guys who are much like Strike King Lure Company in the fact we are small and a pretty close knit group of folks. Alot like a family. Well they brought in some pretty heavy hitters Writer wise and a great group of Pro-Fisherman many of who I have known and a few who I got to know on this trip. All in all a great time was had and we even caught a few fish. I only shot a picture or two........thousand! and even found a couple of Blind Squirrels....(more on that later.)

Special Thanks to Chris Dutton, Glen Cunnigham & Jeff Martin of Vicious http://www.vicious-fishing.com for having us down to this years event. Enjoy the pics.

This is good friend Alan Clemmons from Huntsville. Alan is one of those heavy hitter writers I was mentioning earlier. Super cool Dude and one I look up to in writing and photography. If Alan tells you its good, its good, but he'll also tell you when it sucks. Check out Alan's outdoor blog at http://clembone.wordpress.com/

Recognize this Dude? The man in Pink, Kevin Short was on-hand with his lovely wife Kerry. Man I love these two, so much fun to be around and always ready to help out where needed. Here K-Pink lands a nice one on Lake P.

Another Angle.

On the way to the Bass Cat live well.

K-Pink's Jig of choice. He is one deadly Son of a Gun with this thing. He will be a force in upcoming tournaments.

Blind Squirrel.

Chris Dutton with Vicious is a huge photographer, He makes his living at it while I just blow my living on mine. Anyway, we got into a little backseat competition on jump shots of fish. Everytime I would get one he would see it and call "Blind Squirrel." Well, I can receive it and dish it and believe me I did. He had more Blind squirrels than me but it's all fun and games until someone loses a fish or gets a blurry jump shot.........Enjoy.

Blind Squirrel #2

No Blind Squirrels in this bunch. Jeff Reynolds is a long time Vicious Pro and he does a little work with Strike King as well. Finally got to shoot some stuff with Him and here are a few from the shoot again on Lake P.

Camera 1

Camera 2....Actually Camera 1 repositioned.

So G-Man Gerald Swindle shows up at the Ponderosa and I laughed until I cried and then until I hurt. I only have 2 photo's of him, well only 2 that wont incriminate him anyway due to the camera shake from laughing so dang hard. This guy is hilarious.

Here "G" is fishing with Alan Clemmons and caught "The lake record!!!!" It's a giant G!

Here he is teaching the finer principles of shakey head fishing.......I laughed so hard I forgot what he said. Thanks for the laughs G, that was a blast.

Last but not least is my good buddy Marty Stone of North Carolina. I know Marty through our Bass Cat Boats affiliation and we have become pretty good friends. I shot with Marty one time prior but it was a rush job. This was a little better. Enjoy.

Nice Grip and Grin with Stone.

Blind Squirrel

Nice one.

Last one.

Thanks for tuning in to this segment of Chris Brown Creative, brought you by all the fine folks of these fine sponsors.......Who am I kidding!

Seriously, thanks, for reading and I hope you have a great week. Until next time, God Bless.

Chris

John 6:20

I know, I know, I know..............

It's May 17th and I am trying to figure out where April went. The past 6 weeks have been a blur for me. My last post, well full post was on the Oliver North service at my church, then I packed up all my gear in the "Golden Grocery Getter" (Don't ask) and headed to Lake Norfork in Mt. Home Arkansas for the Bass Cat Boats Owners Invitational. This was an awesome event that lasted for 3 days. I shot over 2000 photos and widdled it down to 600. Check them out as there have been over 1000 visitors to the site and we have raised over $300.00 for the Michelle Short Scholarship Fund and The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Portraits, Portraits and more Portraits.........
So before Mothers Day rolled around my Creative Director (My Wife) agreed to have me shoot some portrait shots of her BFF and her BFF's Sister. Not a bad gig for a Saturday morning but you know who pocketed the cash, My Wife, not me. So here are a couple of shots of Shelley and Wendy. Poor Wendy is newly pregnant and lets just say the morning sickness has yet to let up, she was a trooper though as an hour shoot turned into 2 hours. Lots of fun and tons of images.

Had another shoot that afternoon with my Brother and his Wife and their son Cole. His Wife brought along her whole family as well including a dog. Yep, You guessed it, Little Miss "Creative Director" pocketed the check on that one too. That shoot was a blast as well, 6 adults, a 5 month old and 1 dog...a first for me! Those pics are a surprise so we'll skip them on this post. Here's Shelly and Wendy.

We had permission to shoot at Bellevue Baptist here in Memphis. The light in the morning and late evening is awesome. Here we are in the courtyard.

Here is another in the courtyard again.

Moved to another location, this one seemed to work better than the rest at this spot.

This is a new pose/shot for me, Lil' Miss Creative Director (My Wife) thought this one up all by herself. I like it.

Same Shot a little tighter.

Another in a another location.

Here are the last couple, individual shots, if you look at my friends on facebook, you are likely to see this one again.

Miss Wendy, Congrats on your pregnancy, Good Luck!

Thanks for tuning in, sorry its been so long. Until next time, Thanks for reading and God Bless.

Chris

John 14:17

This is what it's all about!

547 teams rolled into the Ramada Inn in Mt. Home, Arkansas tonight for the Bass Cat Boats Owners Invitational slated for this weekend on Lake Norfork. Day one starts early Thursday morning with blast off beginning at 6:30 sharp. The weigh-in will begin at 1:30 for the first flight.

Here is a Dad and his Son getting registered for the tourney and getting ready for day 1 on Thursday. This is what this event is all about. Family. It is so neat to see families, Father & Sons, Fathers & Daughters fishing together, having fun and catching fish!

Make sure and check back later today to see blast-off images and weigh-in pics this afternoon. Here is the Link to check all of them out.

Thanks for Reading and God Bless.

Chris

Romans 2:13