I recently had the chance to shoot a family vacationing from Virginia out on Kiawah. I still need to pull the rest of their photos, but here’s a sample in the meantime.

Last Sunday Jessica and I headed out to the Ravenel Bridge to watch the tallships sail out of Charleston Harbor. This little yellow plane was flying pretty low near the bridge so I thought I’d snap a few. In the big original version of this you can see inside the plane. Right behind the pilot is a photographer pointing right back at me. Though the view from the bridge was spectacular, I’m thinking that guy one-up’d me.

Not long after that plane flew over, the sun began to set and we started making the two mile trek back to the car. This C-17 flew over so I shot it too. Amazing to think that the little two seater could probably fly through the cargo bay of one of these flying beasts.

Jessica and I were back in Greenville this weekend and I managed to fill up an additional 2.5 gigs of photos. Lots of work ahead for me and pics for you, but it’s really nice to be shooting for fun and for clients. Good times indeed.

-JG

Raccoon-1-600×600-051407, originally uploaded by Jebb Graff.

This little friend of mine has been making appearances daily outside my office. He/She (The Scamp) pokes his/her head up and then runs for the trash can on the boardwalk. Yeah, my office is on a boardwalk. This time The Scamp managed to grab a bag of someone’s lunch leftovers from Newton Farms. The Scamp stuck around for a while letting me grab all the photos I wanted. No fear of getting caught…you know what with the mask and all.

Today while out shooting with some new photographers we hired to shoot the homes and villas, we ran into a couple of deer munching on dollar weed. Gotta get me some deer for the yard. Anywho…at first we were being really quiet so the new photographers could get some shots. Then we realized these things weren’t scared of nuffin. We were able to shout some commands at them like a bunch of models. “Deer, look here…now tilt your head slightly left, chin down a little, one ear up, one down, antlers fuzzy…perfect! And print!”

Good animals, and scared of nothing but a dollar weed shortage. Good luck with that round these parts. Good luck indeed.

-JG

We spent the weekend with Ben in Columbia to bid him farewell. He’s moving to San Francisco to work for AIPAC. I’m very proud of him, and will miss him dearly. I don’t have the time I’d like to devote a post worthy of all that Ben’s friendship has brought me, nor do I think I have the server space for the volumes of required to document his impact on me. He’s not dead, he’s moving. Just really far away. It at least gives me a great excuse reason to go to California.

Friday night was spent in 5-Points much like the old days, but certainly better this time around.

Saturday was full of internet videos of funny cats and topped off with GH2 and Trivial Pursuit 90’s edition.

Sunday was lunch at the Gourmet Shop and a final visit with Ben.

George and Lauren were our most accomodating hosts on this trip. They just moved into a cozy apartment off of Waccamaw and Wheat near 5-Points. This meant we got to walk everywhere this weekend. Well, almost. I miss being able to walk places for lunch or shopping. Though, I do really value being able to drive home and get away from it too. 6 of one I guess.

More pics from this visit can be found here at my Flickr site.

I also got a few pics of some wildlife. Ferocious birds that wear flowers behind their ears live in Columbia. I warned you.

-JG