Back in December, I shot this music video for Sh’Pone Harris’s song called Born Again Believer. It was produced by Joshua Norman of The Truth Records and Champion Anthems. Sh’Pone wanted this particular song shot in the neighborhood where he spent his youth in Muskogee, Oklahoma. It features many members of his family and his close friends. We had a lot of fun with this project, which I believe is a powerful one! Enjoy!

Born Again Believer from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

Here is one of the websites I designed and manage. It is for Weatherford Christian School and has been a valuable communication tool for them! I have a lot of fun creating the content, taking the photos, and keeping it fresh! Take a look!

http://www.wcslions.org

I had a great opportunity, thanks to my friends Jake Felts and Brad Morrow, in December to photograph the finalists for the Spike TV show Toughest Cowboy! Toughest Cowboy premiered January 29th and can be seen on SpikeTV on Thursday Nights at 10 p.m. Central Time. It was a really fun meeting all the guys, who are from all over the country, and hearing some of their stories! Also, Tommy Joe Lucia and Matt Minnichsoffer at Grit Rock Rodeo were great to work with! Here are a few of my favorite shots from the day!

Dusty Elkinton


Chad Eubank


Bandy Murphy


Steven Dent

Whew! I have been working, working, working, and catching up, but not blogging! I had a CrAzY week last week, putting about 1300 miles on the old minivan in about 5 days. But it was so fun! First stop, Abilene to shoot Timmy Dixon’s acoustic concert. Last time I shot him, he was performing with his band. It was great to hear the acoustic versions of all his songs, plus some new ones he had written just the last week or two.

Here’s one of the videos. He’s singing “Only In Time” that he wrote last week after one of his friends drowned.



This is Glimpse, one of my favorites out of his original songs.



Check out the rest of the videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/txlonghorn2314. They include his amazing original songs and several great covers as well!

August 7-8 I was in Midland at Rock the Desert, my favorite! It’s hard work, but so much fun. The lineup was great this year and it was fun interviewing all the bands with Shigity Sean!



This is Mr. David Grosse and I love him! He is so awesome at Op Camp and then he came to RTD to be my boom mic guy. He was so nice to carry the huge camera, drive me around and make sure I always had tape and batteries. I could use someone like him pretty much all the time!



This is Kevin Copeland. In a word, he’s amazing. He can do anything in the world of video production and pulls off the production for this huge event every year! I am so thankful he calls me to come out and help!



I grabbed this shot of the Newsboys on stage. I kinda like it.



Here’s Jason from Hawk Nelson. They are so great! They always end up signing autographs for HOURS after their performance!



Mr. Soul Glow Activatur from Family Force 5! There is no one who puts on a show like these guys!! He’s looking rather tame here. Must have caught him in an “off” moment!

After resting a little bit from Rock the Desert, it was back to Abilene to shoot my favorite Cougars on their first morning of two-a-days! This is Cole who will be a sophomore this year! There is so much talent on this team!
Funny story, the head coach’s son is in the Marines and just finished working at the White House. Coach Spradlin got to meet President Bush at some kind of ceremony the soldiers go through after their assignment is done at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. They walked into the room and President Bush asked Coach what he did for a living. When he answered that he coached the Abilene Cooper Cougars, the President said, “Oh! Ya’ll just dropped to 4A!” I love that! Currently, my coogs are ranked 3rd in the state! Whoo hoo! It’s going to be a great season!

These boys are ready to play some football!



I also met Monday with Donny and Randy Vaughn, the Marketing Twins and was excited to hear about things they are doing and how I may be able to do some production for them in the future! So fun catching up with old friends. I was a little tired that day and forgot to take a picture of them, among other things! But check out their blog - they have a lot of exciting things going on!

Okay, Tim and Jordan Philbeck are up next! Stay tuned!

I first told you about Op Camp Como in April when we had the training retreat for the counselors. This past week we finally got to live the dream! This is the third year we took about 80 elementary kids from the Como neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas to a week long faith-based camp at no charge to the campers’ families. It is always an incredibly powerful week and this year proved no different! God always assembles His very best among the camp staff and counselors. I am always so humbled to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest people on the planet! I quickly chose just a few of the thousands of photos I took last week to tell some of the story!

First, a funny story. (Well, kind of!) My husband Van directs this camp and was the director of the same camp out of Midland, Texas for seven years, but this was a first! During the traditional “keep-away” game in the pool, he caught the back of Mr. Wes’s head in his eye. He had a fairly innocent looking, but very deep split near his brow bone.

Thank goodness for Dr. Brown who was there to stitch him up! (The color has been removed from this photo to protect the squeamish - and yes, I videoed it too!!)

This is what that “innocent” looking injury looked like 2 days later! Carolyn Street, the business manager at the campgrounds took this shot!

Here’s Cody doing his Mr. Gravitt impression!

This is Tyler, who prefers to be referred to as the best intern ever, as they all do! He was definitely the best intern this year! He pretty much had a new hairstyle every day! It started out like this, turned into a mohawk, and eventually he was bald.

Here are Van and I with our boys, Josh and Joe Norman! They were campers back in the early 90s at the Midland Opportunity Camp and still come back every year to help us out. We’ve had the honor of watching them grow up and they are family to us. BTW, today is Josh’s 28th birthday! Happy Birthday, Baby! We are so proud of both of them! Josh played football and was a National Champion at OU and went on to play for the San Diego Chargers, New York Jets and Oakland Raiders. He is now CEO of The Truth Records and JLee Productions. Joe was the Texas Defensive Player of the Year his senior year at Midland Lee High School, played at Texas Tech, and was in the movies “Friday Night Lights”, “We are Marshall”, and “Invincible” as a football player. He is working in the oil business now. Just a little Mama-braggin!

Josh ran a little football mini-camp for the boys at recreation time one day! Pretty cool to have a former NFL player showing you how it’s done! Byron, the boy in the blue shirt, is a Hurricane Katrina survivor. His brother was a counselor for us this year and did an incredible job! We are so thankful God moved them to Fort Worth!

We also had His Son (a.k.a. Vince Carter, former OU center who graduated in 2004 and was drafted in 2005) perform. The kids loved him!

A couple of my favorite shots:

There are no smiles like Opportunity Camp smiles!

Probably the best shot of the week was this one taken by my friend Anda! You can tell we had quite a bit of hair cutting going on in the boys’ cabins!

And of course there is video!


Op Camp Como 08A from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como B from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08C from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08D from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.


Op Camp Como 08E from Gravitt Productions on Vimeo.

Tags: Opportunity Camp Como, NFL, Hurricane Katrina, His Son

I posted a few weeks ago about all the pregnant people at our church. Well, four of those sweet babies are here now! I visited them and their parents in the hospital to take photos for our church's website. They are too cute not to share! Laedin made her entrance first about a month ago. Rhett and Triton are twin boys that were born healthy and happy! About 36 hours later, Miller decided it was time to come join the fun!

And speaking of twins, I reconnected with my favorite ones from my days at ACU, Randy and Donny Vaughn! I was excited to learn that Randy and his family are back in the US from their time as missionaries in Africa, and Donny made a career change so the brothers could fulfill one of their lifelong dreams to own a business together. They are both incredibly creative, resourceful, passionate, and hardworking! They are in the DFW area and their marketing coach company is called 1429 Creative. They also have a very helpful blog at www.marketingtwins.com. Check them out!

I've recently done a couple of shoots out at DFW for a company called IAS Air. It was so much fun! They needed photos and video for presentations and their website. I love my job! Here are a couple of photos:

I am working on a project for a company called Management Resources. As a result, I am spending lots of time researching marketing trends and it is very fascinating. It is amazing how the advertising platform is changing so quickly. The project is still in it's storyboarding stage, but stay tuned for what promises to be a great end result!