Category Archives: Personal Stuff

SwimMAC Charlotte – USA Swimming – Charlotte Photographer Derek Boston

I had an amazing opportunity to photograph this event  for SwimMAC at the Mecklenburg Aquatic Club. Although I felt unbelieveably out of shape standing next to .5% body fat US Olympians I can not complain.  Shooting Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Natalie Coughlin, and many other amazing US athletes with the access provided was a once in...

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My Team

I wanted to play around in the studio and keep my product photography skills tuned so I pulled out my arsenal and decided to create a team portrait of the equipment I use for weddings, sports, and portraits. If you have me scheduled for your upcoming wedding, these are the bad boys that will help...

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CCHS Swim and Dive

This year I had the honor of providing team and individual images to the Charlotte Cathlic High School Swim and Dive Team.  As well as posed photos I took a few shots from their local swim meets. I also designed their parent Lanyards which was a great deal of fun and turned out nicely.  It...

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What Camera should you buy?

If you are in the market to buy a Digital SLR camera and have questions I have posted a new short opinion page that may be able to help. Happy shopping!

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Dec 2011 with Family

If you didn’t know, Christmas is my favorite time of the year. It used to be because I enjoyed everything about it, for myself,  but now that I have children I get to enjoy it through them which makes it 100 x’s better.  After all the presents were opened and everything settled we headed to Myrtle beach...

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Our 2011 Santa Visit

We learned from the holiday season of 2010 that trying to see Santa at the mall in late December could possibly be the most insane and poorly planned things anyone could venture to do.  We actually missed out on seeing him… Once we were quoted a 3.5 hour wait time we turned around and headed...

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Rob Dyrdek Photoshoot

One of the coolest photoshoots I have seen ever…  Have a look.

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Look Around

There are so many interesting things all around us that I think we take for granted every day. Get out and appreciate your community and you might just be surprised what you find… These two images are located in Ballantyne, in south Charlotte. The Bulls were sculpted by artist Peter Woytuk.   

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CLT Skyline

A long time pleasure of mine is to get out and just shoot for myself and one thing I love to shoot is the city skyline. With two little ones tiring me out each day it’s not very often that I get out to shoot on my own. Finally last week I was able to...

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