It was an absolute pleasure to take some headshots and candid shots of one of the rehearsals of the Durham Community Chorale! I’ve been part of this community choir since January 2024 and I absolutely love them. It’s such a fun, positive group. I had been looking for a choir to join for quite some time and they fit the bill perfectly. Since joining, I’ve made a lot of choir friends and have a blast singing the large variety of music that our director Melody picks for us. I felt good giving back to the Chorale by doing some branding photos for them that involved taking some headshots of Melody and our accompanist Ramon, small group photos of the DCC8 (a smaller, subsection of the choir that has special concerts and rehearsals), as well as candids of the Chorale practicing for our upcoming winter concert (tomorrow, December 7th!). If you’re interested in joining the Chorale, please check out our website or ask me if you have any questions (we always especially need more tenors and basses, so if you know of any guys in your life that sing, please pass along the info)! We hope that you come hear us sing soon!
I love this little crew! I’ve known Hannah and David for a long time and they’re some of the nicest people, and Hannah also sends me really quality bat content on Instagram. In addition, their son is obsessed with cats and therefore my best friend. He now also likes dinosaurs and Ghostbusters (!!) and is just an overall delight of a dude. We spent some time taking photos in a beautiful Raleigh park, hiking down to the water to walk on some logs and then circling back to the playground. I, for one, have never seen a child use a slide like this, and am convinced his bones are made of rubber. He would climb up, slide down, literally shoot out and land hard in a type of stuntman roll, and then shoot straight back up and do the whole thing again. He keeps everyone laughing and active and amused, all the while talking about cats. The best!
Aleigh and Joe are the bee’s knees and now they have this little ham of an old man son who already enjoys sitting on a good stoop and listening to his radio like it’s 1935. He would ask for his little radio (a Yoto player), then sit on the edge of his Nugget cushion with his hands folded, deep in thought and contemplation. Then he’d yell for someone to play Do You Know the Muffin Man again the second it ended. All we need is a cigar and maybe a newsboy hat. I imagine that he’s probably a reincarnated New Yorker. When he’s not doing that, he’s laughing wildly while playing peek-a-boo, putting 500 Cheez-Its into his mouth at once, and deliberately pouring out bottles of bubble solution onto the sidewalk. Half toddler, half 85 year old man. It was so good to photograph these guys in their beautiful home.