The Marie Parker Update..

Sometimes I shoot rappers (with my camera)..this is my friend Shawndon(L) and his man Mazi(R)....it's Electric!!!!

My baby is getting so big. I love this little girl so much.

To me, love looks like....(they had just got married)

The infamous Yellow Caddy. My man let me use this in a time of need and held me down, even in the Atlanta gas shortage but the car finally went down on me on I20 East one day, during rush hour......(R.I.P.)

Still, got some pretty cool shots of it...

I saw this kid fishing as I was driving by, I almost kept going but then reminded myself that good pictures don't just happen, you have to go get them, so, I went and got it...

My friend Phil wearing a shirt that my brother and him make. What's your state of mind??? Check them out.....

http://www.stateofmindclothing.blogspot.com

This is why you gotta love NYC. You get to catch shit like this randomly. I was sitting in the car with Phil, this ni66a mel pulls up and I catch this dope ass portrait....

This was a crazy time in life where I didn't know if I was coming or going. I think my confusion comes through in the composition. I was driving from NYC to ATL with my life in my Tahoe. I ran outta gas, caught a ride with come caucasian strangers in N.C. and killed my Treo with coffee while I was sleeping in a rest area........

Rochdale Village, Jamaica Queens......

This is someone I used to knows living room. I am filled with a few different feelings while staring at the picture and could use a lot of words to tell it's story but the truth is, it tells itself. It's all in the details......

Atlanta is an immature city, but it is growing fast. I took this winter 2008.

Gray's Papaya in the Village. Anytime I pass through, I have to stop in. I owe it to them. I recall many days barely having any $$$ and they always held me down like steel. 2 hotdogs (good ones at that...not them nasty boiled street joints) and a drink for like$3.25 or someting...can't beat it.

14th street bridge , Fall 2007...

The back of an old barbershop in Douglasville, GA I used to go to and then my brother - in - law started working at.

This is the fence between my moms and her neighbors houses. 

The Varsity restaurant in Atlanta. They are supposedly famous for their old "Drive in style" food but if you ask me, they are very overrated and the food is gross. But hey, don't take it from me.....http://www.thevarsity.com/

This is in an abandoned airport in Palmetto, GA.

I lived in Jamaica Estates for a period and right around the corners was this train station....

I was doing my first "real" photoshoot with this model and the agency that was representing her, in some studio in the city. While waiting for her to change, I turned, pointed the camera and tri-pod out the window and shot this.....of all my pics and their vivid blissness, this is one of the only ones that has no Photoshop at all. It was luck really..just a long ass exposure..

This is in the Bronx on my friend Dominiques block. She's a pretty dope model I met off of Model Mayhem. She always sticks out in my mind because I came across her profile page on one of the worst days of my adult life. I was attempting to take the bus from NYC to Atlanta , the day before Thanksgiving. At this time I was living in NY and working at a Club in Atlanta. I got caught in a blizzard in Virginia, which cause a delay that would have caused me to possibly miss Thanksgiving. I took a $55 cab to the Airport, brought a freakin $256 one way ticket from Richmond to Atlanta and while waiting two and a half hours for my departure with my 50 million bags and things, I got on my laptop, browsed Model Mayhem because my cellphone was dead, I left my charger in NY and was in the only Airport in America that did not have a place that sold cell phone chargers, and I came across her page. She was very unique, I loved her look and had to shoot her. The rest is history...(we made some really hot pics together...I will post them later)

This is a dog park in Atlanta I used to go to with someone I used to know...

On a walk with a friend who was walking a dog, I came across this place. The shot is colorful and vivid but the warped angle is what is telling of my mind state at the time....

An old bait store I drove passed in Acworth, GA. A good ole country scene, they love some Coke down south.

This was taken in Douglaville, GA. I love the composition and dig the pic but it's rainy, dreary feeling totally reflects how I felt at the time and this picture reminds me of it. I was missing someone I shouldn't have been and silly me, I felt like it was the end of the world. I felt alone..