october 08

Wow! Did a 2-day stint shooting aerials of oil fields from a helicopter. Can't believe that I got paid to do that. Work is sometimes soooooo much fun. Thank you Jay and Tracy. Thanks to the pilot for keeping us safe. Did I mention that I actually got to fly it for about 5 minutes? Very squirly. Always looks so easy in the movies...

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Yay. Road trip. 5-day trip through southern Colorado for STEPP "Champions Choice" campaign, courtesy of Shift Your Brand. Thank you Louie! Images coming soon. No lions, tigers or bears but plenty of tarantulas, motels (including one next to the railroad tracks so no sleep that night), greasy food, great scenery and almost one speeding ticket but somehow talked my way out it. Thank God for a clean driver's record. (And a great assistant- You know who you are!)

Here are some of the images that were animated for a TV spot...



Images from the road: OutsideTrinidad:

Outside Delta:

Back on the road:

august 08

I don't usually do PR photography but I admit, the lure of celebrity and all that DNC stuff took hold... Not to mention calls from small and large publications needing publicity shots... Busy, busy, busy... Won't bore you with lots of famous people in grip and grin situations but I did like this shot I took of Charlize Theron watching a clip from significant other's (Stuart Townsend) movie, "Battle in Seattle". And yes, she is just as beautiful in person as she is on screen...

If you're interested, also shot Stuart Townsend, Tim Daly, (Private Practice), Richard Schiff (West Wing), Josh Lucas (hubba, hubba), Alan Cumming, Tay Diggs (hubba, hubba), Tony Goldwyn (Bad guy in "Ghost"), Matthew Modine, Paul Mitchell, Gary Hart, James Carville... It is a bit weird seeing these people in the flesh...


july 08

I have to admit that I was the last in my group to get an email address, to buy a cell phone, to order a recycling bin (shame, shame) and yes, now, sadly, I am the last to blog. My hesitation has been a combination of having nothing much to say and not knowing what I wanted to say, if anything. So, after searching around and finally climbing out of my own head, I've decided to use this blog as an afterthought for some shoots, a place to post personal work and as a space to make myself stop and think for a while. (Although not for too long - I don't know about anyone else but I can think the whole day away with no more effort than it takes to down an Americano and a cranberry-orange scone.)

Onward. Last week, friends begged me to shoot their dog. His name is Jackson. His owner's name is Michael. Neither wears a white glove.

I love shooting dogs although they can be somewhat challenging with the whole language barrier thing, the attention deficit issue, the bottomless treat bag that never is bottomless and runs out at the exact moment you think you have the perfect shot, the insistence on doing things their way... Wait, maybe that says more about me... I mean, I love doing things my way, but you can learn a lot from a dog's perspective... Most of the time, in the world of Dog as in shooting, the lesson is to have fun, let go, trust the process and see what happens. And most of the time, it works out just fine.