Redlights and Redeyes

Red, Yellow, Blue, Green…any possible color you can think of.  Everywhere.  Literally. I can’t think of really a better place to feed my addiction to color than LEGOLAND Florida, and luckily I get to call them a regular client.  The gig, which I haven’t really talked much about out here in Socialmedialand, fell in my [...]

Just stay on the sand. I love these kinds of assignments…and these type of clients.  Bay Magazine is visually helmed by Bruce and Suzette Moyer up at the St. Petersburg Times, and they do an amazing job with their photo play in the high-end travel/lifestyle magazine every month. My gig was about perfect – just [...]

I am definitely coming up with some pieces of flair for photojournalists on the election trail.  It can be a lonely place out there covering politics, running from spray to rope to riser, sending from the floor of some conference room, being surrounded by thousands, but only knowing the 10 other photographers in the pool. [...]

Suit.  Check. Tie.   Check. Podium.  Check. Stage full of red, white, and blue accents.  Check. Talking points.  Check. American flag pin.  Check. Finger pointing.  Check. Riser.  Check. Twenty other photographers getting the same shot.  Check. I really do love covering politics…there’s that inherent challenge in making something unique that goes beyond what is literally [...]

If there’s one thing I actually really miss about my newspaper job is that Friday night ritual of destroying my jeans one knee at a time, the battle of grainy photos shot on unreal ISO’s versus Noise Ninja, and cursing the roster for not having that one player with the number you need. Ahhh, high [...]

I’m convinced most of my most exciting ideas come from Starbucks-stained napkins…most of which get crumpled up into a pocket and forgotten about.  This one stuck for some reason…and now this little napkin is reality. FOCUSED came out of an idea to rejuvenate some film I had.  I had no idea how that would happen, [...]