Today turned out to be a beautiful day here in Memphis, which is a great relief after all the rain we’ve had over the last few weeks!

This was a perfect day for the first annual AIA Memphis Chalk Art Festival, held outside the Brooks Museum in mid-town Memphis.

Over 30 teams took part in the competition and I was honored to be asked by AIA Memphis to photograph the event for them.

The standard of artwork was excellent, and everyone had a lot of fun. Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who took part today!

Saturday 13th September 2009 saw the second annual Cotton Pickin 5K run and the first annual cotton candy 1K fun run in Somerville, TN.

As a proud sponsor of the event I had the privilege of photographing the event for Fayette Cares, which is also Merrick Photography’s chosen local charity.

Here is a photograph of the overall winner of the 5K race, which saw almost 300 runners take part this year.

If you ran in the race and would like to see the finished photographs, please go to www.collages.net and login with the username “cotton pickin run 2009″ and password “21925″.

This week, I added a new video slideshow to the Senior Portraits page of the web site.

I had so much fun putting this together and would like to thank all the seniors we’ve photographed so far this busy season for making it a wonderful experience!