Friday, September 18, 2009

Skyline With Bridge

Back in June, when I photographed Angel and Tim's wedding atop the Center For Southern Folklore, I grabbed a couple of shots of the skyline with the Hernando DeSoto Bridge in the background. I've photographed this general scene many times, and from many different places/angles, but I've seldom been happy with the results. I kinda like what I got this time...









Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Jessica and Cody

Jessica and Cody were married on August 8, 2009 at the Balinese Ballroom in downtown Memphis. We started with a few family pics at the Madison Hotel where Jessica and the bridesmaids were getting ready.




We then traveled by horse and carriage to the Balinese Ballroom, where Cody and the guests were awaiting Jessica's arrival.














Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Tosin Kayode

Oluwatosin "Tosin" Kayode has lived through more adventures than many of us have read about. And he's just getting started.

A native of Nigeria, in 1998, Tosin was serving as a nautical scientist onboard an oil tanker when both of the ship's generators failed. Tosin, along with 52 other crew members drifted out to sea, without any communications with the outside world. They soon ran out of food and had to catch fish and cook them on an improvised diesel-fueled stove. Without proper means to flush the ship's water tanks, they were forced to drink water that was far less than pure.

After 4 months at sea, the ship was spotted. All 53 crew members survived, but most were ill and required immediate medical attention. Radiological sciences played a huge role in diagnosing Tosin's condition. It was for this reason that he chose to devote his life to helping others through a career in radiology.

He will soon be headed back to Nigeria with the intention (and the know how) of opening his own clinic so that the residents of his country can get the radiological treatments they need without traveling overseas.

Tosin, as well as some of these images, is featured in the June/July 2009 issue of ASRT Scanner.