Patrick McGuirk Photos

10/29/2025

🎵The weather man complains, but where I come from, rain is a good thing!🎵
Taken 3 years ago at Rockwoods Reservation.
I never shared it before now.

09/19/2025

For Sale with or without border at 8x12, 5x7, or 8x10. I decided to add a white border to my garden photos from this year for display on social media. I like adding borders, but I never put much effort into it before. This is a first for an entire catalog.

For those who add a white border around your photos, what's your favorite method? I got to PS>image>canvas size and add 1.5 inches of white space to the x and y axis.

I specialize in family portraits in the St. Louis area. Autism/disability friendly. Patrick McGuirk Portraits

09/13/2025

Taken in 2022 at Rockwoods Reservation by the Lime Kiln trail as people walked by saying "Oh I bet that's gonna be a good one!"

You have no idea.

09/12/2025

Wildwood YMCA Community Garden in June 2025

09/09/2025

I forgot my flash. Then I saw Katie standing by the light.

09/09/2025

Celebrate Wildwood is in 2 weeks and I'm excited to be doing volunteer photography for the 3rd year since 2021. I missed 2024 because sometimes the hard times just get the better of us. I love doing fireworks photos but this 4th of July I had other... hard times... and I was unable to attend any public display. But these photos I took in 2023 beat all of them. These are my absolute favorite fireworks photos I've taken.

09/08/2025

Palmer House, 2022. ClickCon 2022 was my favorite photography event I ever attended, well worth the 5 hour train ride from St. Louis. The people there were incredible. The models were something else. I had to consciously remember my fundamentals when I was taking their pictures because I was so far out of my element and I had never felt "on" like that before.

I learned the fundamentals of composition and exposure at the same time I learned HDR editing when I got my first camera in 2015. HDR at the time was new for the masses and it drew me into creative editing. So, I thought, why not get a photo that I would've taken 8 years ago and edit it just the same?

I'm proud of this.

08/30/2025

Taken on November 1st, 2024. I was bored in the morning. So, I sat in the grass in my pajamas taking photos. I used to get bummed when I woke up to dew on the grass and I couldn't get a good angle with the sun. Pretty cool huh?

08/27/2025

This was one of my first drone sunsets back in 2022

08/27/2025

I won't tell you how I lit this flower, but I will say I used my cell phone's flashlight and moved it around during a long exposure to make the needles sparkle. Wait...