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Polaroids From Pitchfork

18 Jul

Just Finished up in Chicago enjoying the Pitchfork Music Festival!!! I’ve been playing around with a Polaroid 300 making mini art, and hipster hunting. Super fun just making simple images. I must have heard “Everybody Loves Polaroid” a thousand times. Getting ready for CHINA!!! Heading out on Sunday for a shoot in Shanghai and Beijing. The Yeti returns!!!

Pitchfork Polaroids

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Rock Fans Shoot

04 Jun

Hope you enjoy this one, we recently shot a little faux rock concert up in LA, I’ll let the images and the time lapse speak for me. The time lapse is quick and dirty, there was not a ton of down time as you can see from the video but its pretty funny, look for some hidden gems in there. Its pretty funny to see the chaos of 12 hours in 3 minutes. Enjoy the images!

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New Work

19 May

Here is something we worked on recently for Do Or Die – a new MMA clothing company. The studio seemed smaller than usual with these eight gigantic MMA fighters hanging out, eating extra-large pizzas. The evening’s shoot yielded some really outstanding results, and the athletes, like Rich Power in the shot below, worked really hard to help capture them. I’m just glad there was a camera between us.

I’ve also been working planning a lot of my own shoots—interesting concepts that challenge and inspire. Here are two we did recently – the first focused on a range of emotions, and the second was a chance to polish my underwater skills.

Otherwise, we just wrapped up a fun shoot with Marlboro at an incredible swimming pool location in Malibu. This month also brought trips to photograph a surfing pug on Waikiki Beach—yes, really—and Navy chaplains here in San Diego. Coming up (as in tomorrow at 5:30 am), we’ve got a large scale “rock concert fan” shoot planned at a warehouse in LA, and a few more cool projects in the works.

Rich Power for Do Or Die MMA

Andrew Emotional

Corbis Swim

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Shut Up and Make Better Pictures

26 Oct

I had a great conversation with an art director while I was working on a Coke project last week in Chicago. We talked about new media and social networking. He made a great point that I think it should resonate with visual communicators. In so many words, and most likely because he was tired of getting tweets and facebook updates, about the great adventures of certain photographers, he suggested we as visual communicators, put aside the twittering, facebooking, and all the other distractions and concentrate on making kick ass images. How freaking true. I have always said photographers need to make photographs. Pretty simple concept but lately it seems a lot of photographers are doing more social networking than making better pictures. So I’m going to, heed his wisdom and shut up, make better pictures, and let my images speak to my strength as a visual communicator. With that said, I’d love to learn more about photographers that have visual blogs of their struggle to make more powerful images. More image making, less talk.

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Not Enough Time

13 Oct

We have been fighting the clock. I remember in school, time felt like it stood still. Today I looked at this blog for the first time in months and realized that its been MONTHS since I have taken the time to post anything. What has been keeping us so busy? Well, first it was a Bolle shoot with Vitrorobertson, and all the post production that came along with it. There were nine final images, and they have all been delivered. Then there was the trip to Patagonia to shoot high in the mountains on snow in mid July. Can’t show anything from that project, it was for MARLBORO and we need to get legal to give us the okay. Great project, and have an amazing time working with TJ aka T-Sizzle, and closing the casino in Bareloche. For some reason I have never lost money gambling in South America. The streak stands.

After Argentina, it was more work with our friends at Craftsman, this time in San Diego. Then off to New Hampshire to shoot Chrissie Wellington, three time Ironman World Champion, as well as Andy Potts and the rest of TYR endurance athletes. September brought a studio move as well as a whole host of shoots and too much to explain. There was more Sears work, some stunt women on a rooftop, an alien with crazy eyes, reindeer, elves, and a mexican santa, and and best of all, a world famous golfer with a chainsaw.

September also brought a return to Georgia to shoot the 2010 Adidas Golf print campaign. We spent an entire day with Sergio Garcia shooting shoes, shirts, drives, as well as some stuff you’ll just have to see to believe. Still waiting on the ok to share some of those….and of course more retouching…

Now its already the middle of October, we are heading to LA tomorrow to shoot more for TYR, and then off to Chicago to shoot a campaign for Coke.

The new digs are pretty sweet, much more comfortable in more space. So thats about all for now. Time is running out, still have to pack, leaving at 8:00 AM. If only I could bottle up that magic power my high school english teacher had over the clock and slow it down, tick, tick, tick….