Thursday, October 23, 2008

Open House

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Here is the flier, I hope to see you all on November 7th. We will have food and drinks, some great door prizes and a good time.

Give a call or email if you have any questions.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

First Friday



I am back in the studio after the Chicago and Michigan trip. We had the Open house at the fire Department this weekend which took a better part of my weekend.

I am getting ready for the open house at the building. We are doing the first Friday thing. I am going to have a bunch of work up along with some other artists. One of my favorites is Patrick Simmons. He will be showing a lot of new work.

So if you find yourself near south Broadway on Nov. 7 stop by 240 S. Broadway for a drink and some fun.

Friday, October 17, 2008

James Nachtwey and the TED prize

As many of you know my background lies in photojournalism. I have worked for many news outlets such as the Associated Press, The St. Louis Post DIspatch and others. As much as I love working in the studio, one of my passions in documentry photography.
In College I became a fan of a number of photojournalists in the industry and since then many have come and gone. One Man Stands out.

James Nachtwey has been one of my favorite photographers since I found this as a career path. I remeber the day I got a copy of Deeds Of War. I keep that book in the office to this day and pull it out every so often. James Nachtwey won the TED award which gave him $100,000 to put towards a project of his choice. He chose to document a new strain of TB which is running rampant in the world. the first video is Mr. Nachtwey speaking about his career and what makes him who he is. The second are the images from his TED projet.

The first one is long, but it is worth watching.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Cool Video

I am sitting in the Rochester Hills Library taking advantage of the wireless internet. I have to upload a set of proofs for a client. While I am here I figured I would post a few more things I wanted to share. I had heard of Chase Jarvis a while ago and seen his work for a the last few years. It is really amazing.

I was looking at one of my usual blogs the strobist which always inspires me and found a video Chase had put together of one of his shoots. Quite a production. Here it is. Take a look. I have watched it a few times and may watch it again.


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Chicago Marathon 2008

I am still in Detroit, AKP is still sore from the Chicago Marathon. Here is the slideshow I threw together. I have spoken with some of you at home in CO and it snowed last weekend. It was 88 for the Marathon.

Hope you like the photos. It was a lot of fun to watch AKP and AS run 26.2 miles in crazy heat. They are two very tough ladies.

Saturday, October 11, 2008




Ok, I was so happy with the way this turned out I had to share. I just finished working this up and delivered it. It turned out pretty well I thought.

It almost looks like an old Varga painting, eh?

Well, the ladies are getting ready for the marathon and M and I are having a few beers. Good Times.

I am in Chicago right now and AKP is going to run the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. There will be 40 some odd thousand people running 26.2 miles through the streets of chi town.

We are staying on the 22 floof of the old Chicago Sun Times building in the Holiday Inn. The Race starts early tomorrow and then We are travelling to Detroit to see AKP's family then I am flying home on Thursday. I have a some images that I am processing while I am here so I have some great stuff to post this week.

Before I left I had a shoot with Abby and we had a great time. I should be working on those here soon and I will get them up.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Can You Fill These Boots?




As many of you know I am also a volunteer firefighter with Elk Creek Fire Protection District. This year, like years past, we are on the drive to recruit more members. We did a mailer this year and the slogan is " Can you fill these boots?" I took some time last week and made a picture to go with it.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

New Portrait



A client pointed out that they did not feel comfortable with a name posted anywhere on the web for proofs or in the blog. Fair enough, I had never thought about that. So from now on I will refer to people by letters in their names. Easy enough I think.

I got to photograph C on Tuesday afternoon. We were going to do a pinup/ glamour type shoot. It was a lot of fun and I have some great photographs. I have just started to work on them, here is my favorite that I worked on today. I will post more as I finish them.

On a sidebar, the building that the studio is in is going to have and "open house" on the first Friday on November. Hope to see everyone here. We will have food, drinks and some artists showing work. It should be a good time.