December and July are my two down months. So I’m actually taking the time to go back and look at some of the work I’ve done this year.

I did a lot of work this year for East Kentucky Power, work that took me all over Central and Eastern Kentucky. It was some of the best corporate work that I’ve done in a while. I’m going to do a larger blog later, but for now here is my car camped out in the coal yard at Cooper Station on Lake Cumberland in Burnside, back in September. I was using my headlights and interior light to help light the foreground for a shot.

Here are some of images from a great game Saturday that went down to the wire between two college basketball power houses .

Former Kentucky stars DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall talked to fans before the game.

U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner dons his UK jacket while he does the 3-sign before the game.

I love getting national work. This shoot was for the magazine New Mobility, published in Horsham, Pennsylvania. It shows what a small world in which we really live. The magazine found me online, but the subject of the shoot just happened to be fellow Richmond native Judy Everett. Turns out, I know her son as one of Cameron’s umpires in Little League Baseball.

Judy may be in wheelchair, caused by a motorcycle accident when she was 15, but she has the spirit of hundred horses. It was because of her love for horses that we chose to do the photo shoot at Keeneland, a place that she truly loves.

After rehab at Cardinal Hill Hospital, she returned to Clay County High School, went on to the University of Kentucky, taking up wheelchair basketball, wheelchair racing and later, wheelchair tennis. After graduating UK in 1982, she moved to Dallas to become a technical writer and then a consultant.

Along the way, she won the 1980 Bluegrass 10K, placed third in the 1987 Tennis U.S. Open and won the 1988 Australian Open. Yep, that’s right, the Australian Open. I think it was even held in Australia.

When it came to wheelchair equipped vehicles, she wanted something that represented her spirit. She always resisted minivans, saying, “They’re just not me. I can’t see spending so much money on something I hate. I’m more of a pickup sort of girl.” She stayed true to her beliefs in transportation, literally aggravating Chevrolet until they built a first of its kind, Chevy SUV Suburban, equipped and fitted for a wheelchair. Forty seconds in and forty seconds out, is all that it takes Judy with the custom-built lift system.

I was looking at her Suburban while I was setting up lights for this shoot, thinking how in the world will she get out the front door. But when she activated it, I saw that the front door and driver side passenger door were welded together, and were part of the lift system.

Judy’s Suburban, in little ole Richmond, Kentucky, was the first of its kind in the United States. She joked in her competitive nature, saying that somebody may have the second one by now, but I had the first wheelchair accessible, modified Chevy Suburban in the country.

After spending an afternoon with Judy, who hasn’t had the use of her legs since she was 15-years-old, it made me less tolerable of people with use of their legs who whine and bitch about how bad their lives are. She’s a great example that your life is what you make of it.