I usually post my personal stuff on Facebook and my professional stuff here on my blog. But I want to do a little fatherly bragging on my son Cameron. Cameron came to me one summer day when he was just 14 years old, and asked me to take him a few streets down in our neighborhood to mow someone's yard. I loaded him up in my wife's SUV, with him holding our push mower in one hand, and holding open the SUV's lift gate with the other. About 30 minutes later, he called me and said he needed to go to another person's house to mow. I asked him what this was all about and he told me that he had advertised his mowing company on the neighborhood Facebook page. I curiously asked, "You have a mowing company?" He said, "I do now!" And the rest is history. 

Now, ten years later, he'll soon be 25 years old, and has a major lawn and landscape business that he literally built from the grass up. When the weather turns cold lawn and landscape people usually do snow removal in the winter. The snow storm that hit much of the country last week was unique in that it quickly turned into several inches of solid ice when the temps dropped into the single digits. It became almost impossible to remove. Cameron and his guys worked an incredible amount of hours for over a week, going on very little sleep to clear snow and ice for several businesses in Richmond, and several apartment complexes in Lexington.

I had the opportunity to ride with him one night and do some snow shots for his website. There's an old adage in photography that says, "Bad weather makes good photos." And that was certainly true with this storm. Light from the truck, the salt box, and street lights, would've been washed out in daylight, but it painted my canvas with lots of color after dark. Night photography allows the light that you have to not only be noticed but to scream at the camera. 

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