The American Society of Magazine Editors just announced the nominations for the Best Covers the Year and I’m pleased to say one of mine is among them. This cover was shot last year for Field & Stream magazine’s cheap thrills issue and is in the Sports & Fitness category. The image was a collaboration between [...]
A couple months back Fast Co. hired me to shoot their wanted section. The section normally consists of some very cool or unusual products they profile. After discussing with Photo Director Meghan Hurley we decided to collaborate on a video that would compliment the stills running in the magazine that would go up on Fast [...]
One of the hardest things to hear as a photographer from the mouth of a client is that your style just doesn’t jive with what they are creating. I’ll be the first to admit despite my successes it still has a way of making my heart sink and my stomach churn. A few years back [...]
What had to be one of the most enjoyable shoots I’ve had this year took place a couple weeks back for IEEE Spectrum magazine. The assignment was to conceptualize a cover for Water vs Energy. After a few rounds of sketching we settled on this concept of an a bulb exploding with water. Achieving the [...]
Back in March I was approached by Money Photo Director Ryan Cadiz to conceptualize an image for a story about making yourself better apt to fitting in with a younger work force. I pitched a couple ideas including the sketch below, the idea being a kit that you could bring to work to help blend [...]
I’m a big fan of photo editors that think of you for projects outside your normal pigeon holed skill set. Photographers tend to live in categories of genres myself included for the most part. I’ve managed to position myself from a strictly still life shooter when I started four years ago to conceptual photographer affording [...]
May means the roll out of PDN’s annual issue and this year I’m pleased to say I’ve made the cut. The winning images are from an annual report I photographed last year for Navigators Insurance through Addison Design. I’ve posted about the shoot prior here, so I’m not going to go into detail. Let’s just [...]
So its been a few weeks since my last blog posting. I gather the fire two doors down from my studio was a legitimate excuse for a hiatus as I had to focus my attention to just getting business back to normal. Well it wasn’t just the fire. It’s been busy here, very busy. In [...]
My ongoing collaboration with Field & Stream has been in full swing this year starting off with a couple of turkeys in the studio (insert joke here). Back in February we had a gobbler and a hen on set for a cover and a feature package shoot. As far as my sets go this was [...]
I’ve been fortunate enough to have gotten a couple of great conceptual illustration assignments (my favorite kind) from Fortune magazine. Back during the first week of January I was given the following concept by photo editor Amy Wolff: The gist of the piece is that healthcare stocks took a beating last year because of uncertainty over [...]
