Some recent School of Rock portraits.

School of Rock - PORTRAITS - Images by Ken Blaze

Akron's Suicide Bridge.

Did a job for the New York Times a couple weeks ago about their proposed use of stimulus money to fence their Y-Bridge, also more commonly known as the Suicide Bridge. Was an interesting day learning about the city from the mayor and from both sides of the issue.

Akron's Suicide Bridge

At home on Facebook

I've been looking at new ways to market and make friends in this troubled economy. So many of my former colleagues and current contemporaries are looking at the inevitable demise of their publications. Every connection is going to matter these days. So I made the jump over to Facebook this past week. I was leery of using a social network site for business means, but so far the response has been good, and it is quite a bit of fun. Please come and visit!

Ken Blaze Photography on FB

Only 3 days left ...

Only 3 days left in the month of February and that means only 3 days to take advantage of my wedding package discount. Tell your friends! Check out the The Story of the Day for more details!

Luca's new favorite toy.

A box.

They always say it's not the expensive toys that will keep your child amused, it's the everyday things around the house.

A new year's resolution.

Happy new year! 2008 turned out to be great year for me professionally and personally. My first full year of freelancing was a success. Now the trick is to keep it going and build my client base even more so. Thanks to everyone who had read through the blog and visited my site over the last year.

My resolution will be to post more often. The blog gets a lot of hits, and I would like to show more personal work mixed in with the pro stuff too. I have shied away from posting the thousands of photos of my boy Luca in the past, but I think I will start to add the best of what I have of him as time goes by.

Here's a shot to start of the new year. We basically have been living in a deep freeze around here. Here's the window of our playroom at home. Wow. Our outdoor thermometer said -10 on this day.

There should be a slew of updates in the next month as I try to put together some 'best ofs' for the year.

A little urban fun.

Got out into the cold frigid weather for a story for Cleveland Scene last month about the pros and cons of Urban Farming. I was surprised to learn about the number of people with their own 'farms' inside the city limits. It was a fun shoot. Our farmers were quite gracious in letting us talk with them in the stifling cold. It was only about 20 degrees and Jocelyn and Meagen were total troopers sitting for the cover photo. At least the chickens didn't seem bothered by the cold. Many thanks to them and Josh and all the chickens for talking with me and Dan for the story.

Full story, with more photos, is here at the Scene website:
City Chicken