Hello from the Frayed Edge

We are Jill and Mike McClanahan (that's Mike in a photo taken by Jill).

One of our favorite movies is the 1980 "Elephant Man." Quite a piece of work, that. And one of the most poignant scenes occurs with Bytes, the brutal carnie hustler, introducing poor John Merrick with the words, "life is full of surprises."

Indeed. And as the American novelist and painter, Henry Miller said, "we live at the edge of the miraculous."

So it has been over the past couple of years with us. Life's surprises and an unexpected "trip" over the edge have made it possible for us to work together in a real live company that we actually started ourselves to provide the creative services we've been practicing most of our lives. Exciting stuff for us.

And we have some quite special people to thank for this...those terrific clients who had faith in us and used us for their photo needs more than once. These kinds of relationships are the real reason why we've come this far, and the prospect for realizing more relationships like them is the real reason we're so excited about going farther.

To do it, we've created Frayed Edge Concepts, LLC to provide photography and graphic design services because that's where we like to travel with people...to the edge, to the limits of the edge out where it begins to fray...because we like the idea Kurt Vonnegut expressed when he said, "I want to come as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

Indeed again. And, along with creative photography and graphic design, we've fired up this here blog to take us there. We're grateful already for the people this blog might introduce to us. Because as cool as life on the edge can be, it's much more fun in good company.

Mike