I had some time to kill while I waited for a video to render, so I decided to take a walk, bought a 40oz Budweiser and took a selfportrait with a wide angle lens, couldn't resist...

(edit) Haha, I just noticed I didn't clone out the under-armor symbol on my hat in the reflection.

Strobist:

1 strobe between subjects legs pointing up.

1 continues l.e.d. light directly behind bottle pointing at lens.

Label composited in post. 1 strobe positioned at about 8 o'clock of bottle.

Triggered with speedlight.

Canon 7D f5.6 @1/30

Biffles.

An abandoned 'Futuro' house becomes a hillbilly starship under the right light.

We had a redneck theme party on the weekend! I made this cake for my hubby! lots of fun!

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This is a redneck family portrait. This image was a full production with composite. over 20 individual images into the final piece.

This won some international photography awards and has been published in numerous international publications.

Loosly inspired by the movie "Joe Dirt"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZn9uNjVnek

Well, I ain't never been the Barbie doll type

No, I can't swig that sweet Champagne, I'd rather drink beer all night

In a tavern or in a honky tonk or on a four-wheel drive tailgate

I've got posters on my wall of Skynyrd, Kid and Strait

Some people look down on me, but I don't give a rip

I'll stand barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip

'Cause I'm a redneck woman

I ain't no high class broad

I'm just a product of my raising

I say, "hey ya'll" and "yee-haw"

And I keep my Christmas lights on

On my front porch all year long

And I know all the words to every Charlie Daniels song

So here's to all my sisters

Out there keeping it country

Let me get a big "hell yeah"

From the redneck girls like me

Hell yeah (Hell yeah)

Victoria's Secret, well their stuff's real nice

Oh, but I can buy the same damn thing on a Wal-Mart shelf half price

And still look sexy

Just as sexy as those models on TV

No, I don't need no designer tag

To make my man want me

You might think I'm trashy, a little too hardcore

But in my neck of the woods I'm just the girl next door

I'm a redneck woman

I ain't no high class broad

I'm just a product of my raising

I say, "hey y'all" and "yee-haw"

And I keep my Christmas lights on

On my front porch all year long

And I know all the words to every Tanya Tucker song

So here's to all my sisters

Out there keeping it country

Let me get a big "hell yeah"

From the redneck girls like me

Hell yeah (Hell yeah)

I'm a redneck woman

I ain't no high class broad

I'm just a product of my raising

And I say, "hey y'all" and "yee-haw"

And I keep my Christmas lights on

On my front porch all year long

And I know all the words to every ol' Bocephus song

So here's to all my sisters out there keeping it country

Let me get a big "hell yeah"

From the redneck girls like me (Hell yeah)

Hell yeah (Hell yeah)

Hell yeah (Hell yeah)

I said hell yeah

As seen in a hospital parking lot. It reminds me of the joke: "What's a redneck's last words?" --- "Hey, watch this!"

NS 123 is eastbound on the Asheville District somewhere in the country west of Statesville, NC, back when they actually ran through trains on this route.

Joe models for LV Choppers cowboy hats. His belt buckle says Redneck.

Strobist info: Joe is standing about 6' in front of a plain white wall. I hit the wall with a 430ex and Joe with a 550ex in an umbrella camera right and at medium height to avoid dark shadows on his face. Speedlights fired with STE2

Got the chance to try out the Photo Extremist tutorial with a group of photographers. Had a great time and got some great shots. I found the best settings (for me) were f8 - f4.5, ISO 200, with 30" exposure time. - these settings were thanks to my friend Evan the "Photo Extremist". Thanks for looking.

www.AikenHDR.com/

The rust chopper I pinstriped and the black and white I designed the pattern, pinstriped the outlines and airbrushed the skull.. there is another skull on the back fender.. On this picture they are loaded up to the trailer to get to Elmia Custom Motor Show in Sweden..

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Let's just say, I was somewhat addicted to Neon on this trip. There will be a few more yet!!

This is at Dante's club.

'MURICA! WHOOOO! pew pew :)

Pentax Super Program, SMC Pentax-A 50mm 1.7, Kodak ColorPlus 200, Fuji SP3000

Was looking thru some old photos, came across this one.

Backstory: Walked into a latenight Restaurant, and this guy was standing there shirtless, sunburned and he smiled at me. He proceeded to talk with me. I pulled my camera up to take a shot of this interesting character, and he flipped me a bird, in jest really, not in anger. He laughed right after this. I think he suffers from mental illness.. or rather, is completely an Appalachian guy, perhaps.. lacking social graces.. not that flipping a bird isn't uncommon or anything...giggle.

from my kayak

We saw this limo on our recent vacation in the Smokies. Taken near observation tower by Look Rock campground.

4480 Indian Ripple Rd, Dayton, OH. This store opened on November 17, 1977, and is the next-to-the-last Kmart in the Dayton area. The store's closure was formally announced on April 6, 2017, with liquidation starting April 27th. The store will close for good in July.

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Jeff Foxworthy had joked that Chinet was regarded as redneck china... This, then, must be redneck crystal!

Working on new concepts for new walls concentrating on characters, stereotypes horrorshow

mud pit

There is a great story that goes with this shot. First, I'm from Alabama, so I'm allowed to call people rednecks....I truly know what one is. Second, these boys called themselves rednecks....which leads me to the funny part of this story.

This is a place called Kinlock Falls in Bankhead National Forest. About a week or so before I took this shot, I had taken a group of 10 or so people over to the Sipsey and Bankhead for a photoshoot. We eventually made it back here to Kinlock, but it was too bright to do much shooting.

So when I got there this evening, kind of late, I found these three teenagers and two girls (not shown) sliding down this waterfall on little boogie board type things. It looked like a lot of fun.

They didn't mind me taking pictures of them having fun and eventually they all ended up standing on the ledge where I was shooting and then jumping off into the pool below.

I said to them, "If someone wants to give me an e-mail address, I'll send you copies of these photos." To which the one of the far left in this shot said, "E-mail? Man, we ain't go no computers....we're rednecks. This is what we do for fun out here. Shoot, we're lucky we got cell phones."

I laughed so hard at his comment. He was being funny and serious at the same time. They seemed like good kids.

The next part of the story is not so funny. After I left Kinlock, I decided to follow the road on back into the forest. I guess I had it in my mind that there would be a way out of the backside of the forest. There wasn't one that I could find.

So after driving around for 45 minutes in the dark, I retraced my route and when I left the dirt road and hit pavement, I was FLYING!

Well, I blew right past a state trooper was sitting on the side of the road. He pulled me over and asked what I was doing in that part of Bankhead at that time of night.

I showed him my camera and told him what I was doing. He proceded to tell me that the reason he was way back there in the middle of nowhere was because there was serious drug trafficking back there and it was very dangerous after dark.

I guess I have an honest face, because he just told me to stay out of the part of the forest at night and to slow down. No ticket, just a warning.

Good times. :-)

Representin! Tennessee

Redneck Girls

Shane Kratz

© Michael Peters

Going camping with everything but the kitchen sink. Supposed to be tent camping.

A couple of Redneck Bikes I airbrushed and pinstriped a while back.. They where both built by a friend, Knut Olav Dybsjord and they where both bought by a couple of other friends of mine, but are now sold for new and own projects.. I think the rust bike is still for sale at a shop in Norway.

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