Boot Dogs

Here's the latest ad that Armes Photography designed for the Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics Institute.
Getting the two dogs to act on queue and pose together turned out to be a challenge.
In the end we merged two separate images, hope you can't see the join!
The ad is in the July edition of Aussie Times, others to follow.

Carolina Ballet's The Nutcracker

Carolina Ballet is currently staging a completely reworked version of The Nutcracker. This is the first time for about 10 years that a full dress rehearsal has been held in order to update the photo portfolio. We took over 2000 images at the dress and are busy working through them now for Carolina Ballet to use in future publicity materials. Due to popular demand here's a few preview shots for viewing over the Christmas holiday.

Alicia Fabry as the Toy Sugar Plum

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Carolina Ballet is currently staging George Balanchine's choreographed version of  Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Performances run from May 19-22 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Here's a few samplers taken during the dress rehearsal. Equipment: Olympus E-3, Zuiko 35-100mm f2, tripod.

Lilyan Vigo as Titania and Marcelo Martinez as her Cavalier

Aussie Times

Here's an advertisement that I designed for the Australian Shepherd Health & Genetics Institute. It's in the March - April 2011 edition of the 'Aussie Times' and will appear in one or two other journals later in the year. It's good to be able to contribute to a worthy cause!

The Ugly Duckling



The Ugly Duckling is currently being performed by Carolina Ballet at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh. This a fast moving and colorful interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson's classic ably choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett. Here's a few preview shots taken during the dress rehearsal.

 

 

The far from ugly Lara O'Brien plays the Ugly Duckling. Here she's supported by Gobbledigook (Richard Krusch) and Duckling (Nikolai Smirnov) as she finds her feet 

Bug Calendar

The Entomological Society of America has just published its 2011 calendar in which I had three images selected this year. The scan quality is not so great, but I can assure you the actual calendar looks good. Insect photography is a keen interest of mine since student days. From left to right the bugs are: a Swamp Cicada, a Blue Dasher Dragonfly and a Scaly Bee Fly. All three were photographed in my garden in North Carolina.

Pinocchio

Yesterday afternoon was the dress rehearsal for Carolina Ballet's presentation of the classic fairytale 'Pinocchio' choreographed by Bruce Wells of Pacific Northwest Ballet. The ballet runs at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium from 24 November - 28 November. Here's a sneak preview from the photographs I shot for Carolina Ballet.

Pinocchio (played by Margaret Severin-Hanson) takes to the air as he (she) dances with the puppets