Water Vs Energy for IEEE Spectrum

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 [...]

Taking A Few Weeks Off

I’m spending the rest of this week knees deep in various productions followed by a two week jaunt off to Italy.  Posting will resume the week of June 7th.

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Age-Proof for Money Magazine

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 [...]

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Total Outdoorsman for Field & Stream

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 [...]

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Navigators Photographs in PDN’s Annual

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 [...]

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Dusting Off the Cobwebs

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 [...]

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Turkey Time, Recently Published Field & Stream

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 [...]

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A Nod from SPD Courtesy of Field & Stream

SPD announced the medal finalists today for Pub 45 and I’m happy to say that some of my work was included courtesy of Field & Stream in the Photo Section (multiple issues) category.  I’ve been working with Field & Stream continuously over the past 4 years ever since photo editor Amy Berkley gave me one [...]

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Recently Published Business Week, Some Stop Motion to Boot

As you may recall as the holiday approached last month I got insanely busy.  One shoot taking up a majority my time was a project for Business Week.  At the end of every year Business Week does a double issue giving a financial forecast for the upcoming one. I was tapped to shoot three images [...]

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New Year, New Attitude

2010 is officially here and I’m rearing to go after a very much needed week off.  Here’s hoping the New Year picks up where the last year ended in a frenzy.  My resolution for this year? Be positive.  I had a great conversation with my rep just before the holiday break discussing attitude and how [...]

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