Redlights and Redeyes

I don’t know how a photographer can ever actually go on vacation – it might take a cement room devoid of any color in Des Moines for me to actually leave a camera aside and take a “vacation” from “work.” I constantly find it amazing we can call photography work. Oh well, let me load [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I spent the week doing a couple things I don’t do very often – disconnecting, actually going to the beach for fun (instead of a shoot), and putting my camera down for a while. The eye candy one night this week was too insane to play around in for a few frames. For as much [...]

Just added a new batch of signed art prints (available in 8×10, 11×14, 16×20, and 20×30) on my Photoshelter site – give your walls some love from Chip Litherland Photography! Here! Old prints still up (here).