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 doing work that makes my work so much easier.
For more work and a quick link to the expanding archive I’m building right now, hop on over to my Photoshelter site.
Ran across this bride at the Tampa Bay Bridal Show Sunday at the St. Pete Times Forum, where I had a booth promoting my other photography. She didn’t make it.
If you want to check out my wedding work featuring non-disembodied brides with a pulse, please visit us over at Eleven Weddings Photography.
Been busy as of late…just nothing I can share. Yet.
Here’s something I snagged the other day at a barbershop while working on a completely unrelated story in Newtown – which has some rich history locally and is a constant reminder of the segregation that existed here. Easy to forget when driving along the parade of beachfront multi-million dollar homes that fence off the horizon – essentially a playground for the rich.
What exists 10 blocks to the north is completely different, and so much richer to shoot.
I got a few requests to see the layout of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter pictures for The New York Times Travel piece the other day…so here you go.
Nice little 7 column photo inside over a truk, plus a 6 column on the front. So nice to see papers commit themselves to good photo play when most are stuck in what seems like a forever-shrinking newshole.
Original post: here.
More on Photoshelter: here.
I learned a few things today.
1. You can, in fact, use Bud Light cans as antenna decor.
2. Mud that smells like cow crap, probably isn’t just mud. Crap.
3. The bigger the truck, the more you have right-of-way.
4. Aaaaaaaooooooo’s are loudly directed your way if you have a camera. Even louder if you have beads.
5. Jeans are some of the shortest shorts around.
6. Breaking down is just an excuse to crack open a beer.
7. Hip-hop could be heard more than country in the country. That was actually shocking.
8. ”You” is pronounced “yee-oooh.” And it has two syllables.
9. Sometimes a hole is simply a hole.
10. You know it’s a good assignment when you don’t want to leave.
Just a few tidbits of information collected during my shoot at the Myakka Mud Fest in Myakka City today.
Fun times.
I don’t even know what a Hippogriff is, let alone a Hogwart. All I know is I don’t want to wake up with either on my skin.
I do know that Harry Potter is HUGE with my daughter. Convincing her that a 2-day Travel assignment for The New York Times (article here) to a sneak peek the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter amusement park at Universal Orlando was work – tough. I spent two mornings with a select group of fans who got a sneak peek of the park, which is truly a Potter heaven. I was escorted in through the back lots by the extremely helpful PR folks (not even sarcastic – they were great), which demystifies the place a bit, but I even shared in the initial jaw-drop. That was until I was nearly bulldozed by a crush of fans sprinting to get to the Hogwarts castle. Fun times.
I have never read the books, and my knowledge of the movies is spotty at best, but I do know that if there was a Mos Eisley replica at some Star Wars amusement park where I could get a customized lightsaber, I would be pretty stoked.
As it stands, I looked like a hero coming home with an authentic Hermione Granger wand for my daughter. All it cost me $29.95. I won’t even mention that I let a $9.95 chocolate frog melt in my car.
For 45 more photos from The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, please visit my Photoshelter site…here.