Scott Clevenger Photography Blog

Recently Luke participated in the RA’s mission fair and pine car race. The RA’s had to come up with a way to share Christ with others and then document it in order to compete in the race. Luke baked cookies and then placed them in a bag with a note for the children at the Raleigh Rescue Mission. Doing a project like this was right up his alley. I think the photos below truly show his heart in what he was doing. Andrew got in on some of the action too. It was very hard for him to understand why he couldn’t eat any of the cookies.

As for the car, we started out building a “carrot car”.  I have to admit the idea wasn’t completely original. A good friend of mine made one when we were in the cub scouts. I mentioned it to Luke and since he loves carrots he thought that was a cool idea. We were ready to paint it when I found out the nose was illegal. The carving on the bottom side of the nose would allow his car to start rolling before the starting mechanism was all the way down (I promise I didn’t know). The Saturday before the race we were building another car! We kept it simple and it worked out. Luke actually won his age group within our church. We got to race the next weekend against the other winners within the Raleigh Baptist Association and lost out in the first round.

The whole thing was a cool experience. I haven’t done a car race like that since I was in the cub scouts and it was neat to experience it again with my son. Maybe the carrot car will make it’s debut next year.  :)

Somehow way back in May I missed blogging about this.  The photos below are from the National Day of Prayer event held on the State Capitol Lawn in Raleigh, NC.  I thought they would serve as a reminder for everyone to pray for the victims as well as the aid/rescue workers in Haiti.

Whoa! It’s been a while since I have posted anything!  I guess it’s that time of year.  The Holland family was celebrating the baptism of their newest addition and asked me to hang out and get some cool shots.  Turns out I used to work for/with several of their family members which made it super easy to blend right in and get some nice candid shots.  Check out a few of my favorites below.

Wow, things just seem to get busy without even realizing it.  We recently had the opportunity to shoot Stephen and Sarah’s wedding on the South Eastern Baptist Seminary campus.  A huge thanks goes out to Ken Hall for helping out.  Here are a few shots from their day.

Okay these are a little late but I wanted to post them anyway.  One of my favorite holidays besides Christmas and Easter is the 4th of July.  When I was a kid my family would travel to the coastal town of Southport NC to visit with grandparents and cousins and go to the huge independence day celebration the town would put on.  Southport still has the celebration and it’s as big as ever, although every year we would say, “the parade wasn’t quite as good as last year”.  This year I decided to go down by myself and shoot just for myself.  It’s nice to not have any pressure of getting people’s information or getting back to have the photos up before a deadline (maybe that’s why this post is so late).  It was fun and I ended up with some cool shots but I don’t think the parade was quite as good as last year. : )

Not that anyone is asking but here’s a photo tip: If you want some good candid shots of parade things, always arrive a few hours before the parade begins and go to where the participants are lining up to begin the parade.  Then when the parade starts, hang out a little while at the very beginning.