Getting nice exterior shots is often about timing. I usually scout my location beforehand, establish my camera angle, then determine the best time of day for the light to strike the front -- usually requiring a return trip, closer to the ideal time. Such was the case for both of these shots.

However, for the street-scape of Decatur, GA (right), I knew what my vantage point would be when I accepted this assignment because my client already had some snapshots taken there. What I didn't know was that a 9' wall surrounded the top of the building and since I was aiming for dusk there wasn't time to come back with a ladder and still get my shot. Several days passed before the light was right again, but it had gotten colder. Not a big deal for me, but with one of the goals being to include pedestrian traffic I wasn't going to get a lot because of the weather. What I did was establish my camera position, then shot multiple shots every time someone ventured into my frame. For the final image all of the car positions, and all of the people positions were blended together in post production.

This is a school building that was barely completed before the school year started. As I prepared to shoot, I was delayed as the landscape crew removed the stabilizing wires from all the trees.

Here's an older school that had been given a recent face lift. The building was long and low, leaving no good angle to show it's entirety. Since this image just needed to represent the building, I chose to focus on the renovated entryway.

This clock tower (left) is actually disguising a cell phone tower; shot for the architecture firm.

The AT&T office building (right) was being lit up for the winter holidays with a full blown light show in which the building changed color several times. I was hired by the lighting company to capture the building as it changed color.

For this image I was hired by Goldkist, the poultry company, to shoot "The Big Chicken," a historic landmark north of Atlanta.

The first image is of New York City, as seen from the top of the Empire State Building. The day I shot this was overcast so the colors and contrast were drab -- perfect for a toned b&w image.

The other image was shot in Charleston, SC. Another image that lent itself to a toned b&w.