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on self-assignments (with a side of mud, booze, and rednecks)

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

If you don’t like the assignments you are given, make your own. Shooting for free is the kiss of death in this industry, but there’s a time for everything.  Sometimes, a self-assignment is worth it.  If you are a staffer, the daily grind of assignments can beat you down with every building mug and press [...]

the image, deconstructed

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

Just got featured on The Image, Deconstructed, which is a wonderful new platform run by Ross Taylor that breaks down a photograph and the thought process into making that single image.  There has been some wonderful talent featured as of late, so I’m in great company. Check it.  Here.

potter in print (TIME Magazine)

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Apparently Harry Potter is popular.  Who knew?  This shoot has some legs – TIME picked up three photos for their current issue.  Also just licensed the roller coaster image for a book cover.  All I can say is a big thank you to Photoshelter for making it easy to manage my stock.  These guys are [...]

verve photo

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Nice little write-up on an old photo of mine on Verve Photo…see it here. Also, many thanks to Geoffrey Hiller and the running list of talent he has been producing over there.  Two of my favorite shooters, Ross Taylor and Matt Slaby were just featured as well.  Go check it out!

emergency mennonite

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I swear it’s not the same girl. I believe it was Melissa Lyttle on an aphotoaday post that accused me of carrying a Mennonite girl in my trunk whenever I needed to add one to a photo to make it work.  This girl would ride around next to my bucket of red paint, to serve [...]

tube socks and daisy dukes

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

I was deleting some of my old links in my browser when I came across a couple versions of my previous blogs…those blogs are long gone, but I still had access to their stats.  A funny thing happened when I looked up the stats of how people were getting to my blog, and low and [...]