Friday I travelled to Kouts, IN to the Shutske Family Farm to document Ball Auction in action.  Daryl Ball, the owner of Ball Auction and Realty is having me come to a few of his auctions and photograph him and his staff.  The photos will be used to update their website but also to document what Daryl and his family have done for years.  I will eventually make a coffee table book for them.  Daryl is a close friend of my father’s and has seen the “Project Dad”, where I have taken photos of my dad farming, and decided he would like me to document a portion of his life also. 

I am just going to post a few pictures because I still have shoots I will be doing this Friday and Saturday but before I post them I wanted to mention that Daryl is an amazing person, he loves what he does and he is very good at it.  And his staff is awesome, they were great to work with (espically his daughter Lana who is super sweet and super cute)  I really enjoyed myself at the auction and I can’t wait until this weekend.  If any of you blog readers are free Saturday morning head out to Bourbon (just don’t forget they are on eastern time).  Oh and make sure you say hi to me, I will be the one with the two cameras hanging off me.  I think Gwen is coming out to help me also.  Here is a link to the sale info… http://www.ballrealtygroup.com/auctions_current.htm  He will be selling some amazing antiques.

Okay and now for some photos…..

Daryl in action…

this is one of my faves…you can just tell Daryl is a sweetheart by this photo…this was totally candid, not posed at all, he might not even knew I was taking his picture because I was using my 70-200 lens (my big one) so I was really far from him.

See ya all this weekend!!

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