This is the home page for my new Davis Photography Dzine Tools; Photographer Resource Website. It should be live sometime in the next two months. Check out www.davistools.com in the next month or two.

On the site I'll have upcoming seminar information, feature products available like my Davis Dzine Digital JPG Workflow that gives you the freedom and power of a RAW flow but you wont have to spend thousands of $$$$ to buy new harddrives, more cf cards, Adobe CS2 and more. It's really smokin. I've edited all of my 06 weddings with this flow and my clients couldn't be happier with their pix! I am finding that I now actually have time to grow my business and live my life instead of just maintaining and enduring the "busy wedding season" that we all can relate to.

For real, I took my kids to a junk yard on a field trip the other day and then we went to the airport, equipped with light sabors, to hunt some monsters that we heard were landing in Columbus. I have two boys if you can't tell! :) Gotta love them. But I wouldn't have the time to do this kind of stuff with them if I was still editing the way I used to. This workflow has changed my life. If you want to know more about it and would like me to e-mail you when it's available online I'd be happy to contact you, just send me a message that's titled "Workflow Info" in the subject line and I'll be sure to let you know. Write me at info@davistools.com

Today's digital photographer has to do far more than just push a button. An image is a work of art created in a digital darkroom called Photoshop. That's why this workflow is more than just some actions, it's a system of organizing, selecting, editing, renaming, protecting, and automating custom touches to hundreds of images. I am editing 1000 plus images in just a matter of a few hours and getting faster every time I use this new flow. Below you'll see a few before and afters of just a few of the actions that will come with the entire workflow package. Each action is a customized one of a kind created for and by Davis Photography and soon will be available to you who are interested.

I just finished editing Megan and James Bagdalia's wedding! Seriously a job shouldn't be this fun and easy! All we had to do was push the shutter button and they looked amazing! I used my new digital workflow that I custom created to edit this wedding. All of the images have customized actions run and they look awesome. I hope to have my workflow for sale online in about 2 months. Be on the lookout for our new Davis Photography Tools site where we'll have our digital workflow, custom actions, how to's, workshop info and more. I'm excited about it!

Megan and James,
enjoy a couple of the images from your wedding! They'll be available on www.pictage.com in a few days. God bless you guys!

We are now home after 11 days away. We went to Lakeside Ohio and had a great family vacation with lots of fun and then headed to my folks for the Independence Day Weekend and visited with my sister and brother in law who were in from Missisippi and the rest of my family. Lara and I took a ride on my folks Gold Wing too. It was so fun. I want to buy a bike but am waiting patiently for the right one and the right time. It's now back to work. We'll be designing albums for the next couple weeks and doing some business development as well. Also, I'll have some images to come from my most recent wedding of Megan and James. They turned out incredible. Can't wait to edit them.

The Four most important things in my life are God, my wife Lara, my son Ashton and my son Brayden.

Over the next couple weeks we'll be back and forth all over Ohio. This weekend we're shooting a great wedding at Congress Lake, then we'll be at the Alive Festival representing Thirst Relief International and then at the Lakes shooting another great wedding, then on to family vacation at Lakeside. Because nothing means more to me than the four I mentioned above I've been working extra hard lately to get ahead enough to be able to really enjoy our time away. Therefore, I will probably not be updating the blog for a while, we'll see how that goes and I wont be attending to business matters as quickly as normal. So if you find yourself waiting for a reply to e-mail, a returned call, or a meeting just know that your very important to us and we look forward to connecting soon. God bless and may all of you who read this blog be as blessed as I am and more!























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Sarah and Doug, here's a sneak peek. Enjoy.

Sarah is crazy skilled at wedding invites etc. be on the look out for www.BellaDoodle.com which will be the website for Bella Doodle Designs.

God bless.

Jim

I went to Lake Erie the other day and had a really great time fishing on the Sassy Sal Headboat. It's awesome. You get a couple friends together, take some poles and walleye lures and you just pay $20 something to get on the boat and they put you on the fish. And boy did they. I was catching walleye all day long. And a couple sheep head, catfish and white bass. We only kept the walleye and are gonna have a crazy good fish fry on vacation in a couple weeks.

Be sure to ask if Brian is the captain and Jesse is the first mate. They make a great team and really work to net your fish, wash your worms and most of all to keep you on the fish.

For those who didn't know me in my good ole' day you can now get a glimpse of what I think a really good time is! :) Of course now I have to carry my camera with me while I do it.

Congratulations to my friend Mike Colon. He was just inducted into Nikon's "Legend Behind the Lens" though he's already a legend. For real, this guy has donated so much to Thirst Relief International that he's already a legend to me and so many others. Congratulations Mike!

Check out the article:

http://www.nikonnet.com/dyn/articles/article_detail/225.html

I liked these better.

We literally just got home from having a really great evening with some friends, Marta and Alex, these are just a few of their engagment shots that we took tonight. It was a ton of fun shooting them along with Graham and Hillary Rouse of Rouse Multi-Media, very gifted and fun wedding photographers as well as friends of ours.

It was so fun to have a night with Lara and some friends without the boys along. It was a special treat. Thanks a ton to Marla and Jay, neighbors who watched the boys!!!! You rock!

Enjoy. I am so blessed to be a part of this relationship!

I just got back home from one of my all time favorite weddings! I had such a good time shooting. It's funny cause on my way to the wedding I just felt completely out of it. I was tired, had a headache, was kinda upset about some stuff and just felt off in general. So I called two buddies to ask for prayer and neither answered. So, I just prayed myself. Jesus really met me and helped me to completely come out of my funk and I ended up having one of the greatest times I've ever had at a wedding. Rebecca and Chris are two of the sweetest people I've ever photographed. What a joy to be a part of their day. God was at the center of their whole day and their families were awesome! She doesn't have any unmarried sisters so you can be sure I mean all of this :)

Anyway, I really do love what I do as a photographer and I really shoot every wedding with my whole heart. This one just stood out relationally.

Thanks guys for letting me be a part of your big day!

God bless,

Jim

enjoy these few images.

Lara and I just returned from San Francisco after shooting this really amazing wedding!

We hiked up this really long, steep, dark trail after the weddings Sat. night. When we saw the full moon we couldn't pass up the chance to get this shot of the Golden Gate Bridge even though we had just finished shooting a 10+ hour day. It was so worth it! We were totally chilled cause the wind was blowing like crazy and it was really cold. But when we saw the images we were getting we couldn't stop shooting. Enjoy!







Congratulations Yenny and Ethan! May your marriage be even more blessed than the day of your wedding! Can't wait to edit your pix.

Here are a couple to enjoy!

Every month we are sending $1500 to Brazil for the production of water filters. That is Thirst Relief International is. I personally know Kevin pictured on the left helping to push this cart that contains two water filters in it.

It's amazing what can be accomplished by just a few people giving $5, or $10 a month. We have people on the ground ready, willing and able to do this type of labor in order to take safe, clean water to those who are literally dying of thirst. All we need is the money to do it. 100% of all donations go directly to the cause of providing pure water to children around the world. Monthly we need $1500 for Brazil and $1500 for Zambia, and we have recently expanded into Guatamala. If you've not become a Thirst partner please consider doing so by going to www.thirstrelief.org and contribute securely online or read about how to mail in a contribution.

I live and breath this cause and just want to see more lives saved!!

We shot a really great wedding last night! Mike and Serene from NYC, NY were alot of fun! Mike got the "cool" look down real quick. (That's for his benefit.)

Good group of folks with alot of Arabic spirit! It was so fun capturing the dance shots when the Arabic music was playing. It was a workout just shooting the pix! Tons of fun!

Here's a couple of our favorite images from the shoot.

We are headed to San Francisco for a wedding next weekend and really look forward to shooting at some really great places there.

One of my new favorite images!

I am so excited about this new workflow I created. I used to spend 4+ days editing a wedding to perfection! Now, with no less perfection I am editing an entire wedding in like 8 hours. I am so excited about gaining my life back. I thought the only way I could do this type of a workflow was if I went RAW. That would have required another $3k investment. But I am achieving the same results while still shooting jpg which I love doing anyway. More to come, I'm need to get back to finalizing this wedding so I can ftp it to Pictage.