BEST OF 2011
Ive been in Japan for the past few weeks so the annual “Best Of” post has been postponed until now. 2011 seemed to come and go in a breeze. Check out my brief year-end wrap up and 100 of my favorite images made in the year 2011 after the jump.
MOVEMENT OF KINGZ
Back in September I had the pleasure of photographing four talented musical artists from Movement of Kingz Entertainment at Houston Skyline Studios in Houston’s Warehouse District. We had a limited time to shoot, but managed to pull off several different looks for the guys. The crew from Vicious Films was on hand and produced an awesome behind the scenes piece from the shoot. Check out the behind the scenes video and the resulting images inside!
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
After a few hectic weeks of non-stop shooting and editing in early August, I decided to drop everything and take a VERY spontaneous trip across The American Southwest. Loaded with a digital SLR, one of my GoPro HD cameras, my trusty Polaroid Spectra, and a few other film cameras, I set out on a brief, but exciting, Kerouacian adventure. Check out the story and images after the jump!
SENIOR PORTRAITS?
It’s been way too long! I know, I know, I know. You don’t have to tell me! My work/life over these first few months of 2011 have been nothing if not hectic, but believe me, I have a dry-erase board hanging in my (new) office with more than a few ideas for upcoming blog posts, [...]
FEATURED IN PHOTOSHOP USER MAGAZINE
About a month and a half ago I got an email from Mike Mackenzie, Associate Publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazines, letting me know that they wanted me to be featured in Photoshop User magazine. I was thrilled to be featured in a magazine that I receive and read every month. Check out the story and see PDF images of the entire magazine feature spread here.
COMMERCIAL PORTRAITS
We spent a recent long-weekend photographing models for an upcoming project. Several conceptual set ups were utilized and a handful of different models came to the studio to sit. One of the models we worked with was our good friend Sarah Jade Robbins who we have worked with before. See what we did with her here!
PRINTS FOR SALE!
In June of 2010 I participated in a group gallery show called “Convergences” featuring an amazing group of local Houston illustrators, painters and street artists. I assembled a grid of 4 square prints to display which conveyed my theme of “abstract portraits”. These 4, 20″x20″ prints are now being sold to help fund an exciting upcoming project.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 4 OF 4: IPHONE
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the last in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with the camera on my Apple iPhone 4.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 3 OF 4: LUBITEL
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the third in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lubitel twin lens medium format camera.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 2 OF 4: 5D
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the second in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Canon 5D mark II digital camera.
JAMESON TAILLON
I recently photographed local pitching phenom, Jameson Taillon, at his high school’s home field in The Woodlands, Texas. Jameson was recently selected 2nd overall in Major League Baseball’s 2010 first-year player draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.
FUTURE OLYMPIAN?
A couple of weeks ago I got an assignment to photograph an up and coming high school swimming star from Kingwood, Texas. The image was going to accompany an article for the All Greater Houston section of the Houston Chronicle which is a special section highlighting outstanding high school athletes from the Houston area. After [...]
ADRIENNE & ELIZABETH
A few weeks ago my friend Adrienne assisted me on an editorial portrait shoot for The Houston Chronicle. It was a rather overcast and chilly day, but she was a trooper and patiently stood in as I got my lighting all set prior to the subject’s arrival. Of the few frames of Adrienne that I [...]
THE RED CURTAIN
No, this is entry has nothing to do with the USSR or the Cold War, but we do like red. Libby and I have some bold red curtains that span an entire wall in our living room, so we decided to have a bit of fun with some gear that was laying about being inventoried. [...]
BEST OF 2009
As we wrap up the first week of the new year I can’t help but reflect on the past year. There were struggles as there are with anything, but I’d be remised if I didn’t sit back and be thankful for the good things. I met a lot of great people, made a few new [...]
DESTINATION: QATAR
I’ve been pretty busy lately and have much to catch up on the blog world. I still need to update my blog with my stuff from Africa, Brazil and my story completed at the Eddie Adams Workshop last month, but this post is devoted to a rather interesting trip I took last week to Qatar [...]
CHRON FAVS 2
This is my second installment of my 2 part favorites post highlighting my favorite images taken during Houston Chronicle assignments. This post contains images from roughly mid-May 2009 through this past weekend taken from my Houston Chronicle assignments only. I am a regular contributor to my hometown newspaper and get to shoot all kinds of [...]
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Did a quick shoot with a good friend earlier this week. Luckily she lives right across the street so it was just a short walk and I was there. She needed some simple shots for to show to a prospective modeling agency and I obliged by shooting a few of her in and around her [...]
NEWS-ISH
I have a few updates and news(ish) items to talk about. First off my recent article, “Riding A Wave” was published this earlier this week in the SportsShooter.com newsletter. The article which talks about my recent experience producing the documentary, The Messenger: 360 Days of Bolivar, was featured on the front page for a day [...]
BOOMTOWN
Today was a rather eventful day. I woke up early and knocked out a quick assignment for the Chronicle in Memorial Park then rushed back home to change and meet the Welling Films crew at Shawn’s. Our documentary, “The Messenger: 360 Days of Bolivar” was chosen as an official selection in the 2009 Boomtown Film [...]
CHRON FAVS 1
As a regular freelancer for The Houston Chronicle, a major metro daily, nearly half a million people see my pictures from day to day, but the next day many of the photos are either used as kindling, pooped on by pets or recycled. Of course they are archived by me, but are rarely shown. It [...]
ENGAGING
I’m dipping my toes into all kinds of stuff in this new year, 2009. I don’t really do engagements all too often, but this was for a friend and her fiance who happens to work for the greatest baseball team of all time, The Houston Astros, so for that, I will. It also didn’t hurt [...]
MORE PORTRAITS!
I’ve had a rather busy week catching up on pretty much everything, toiling over contest entries and shooting. This week is the first week I think I’ve shot more stills than video with the new 5D II. First it was Sunday with Lacey and today it was Shawn. I had a noon assignment for the [...]
NEW PORTRAITS
Today I got to sleep in (not like that’s unusual or anything) and meet up with the lovely Lacey Grantz. I have done portraits of Lacey in the past and had a blast then, and this time was no different. She is a doll and so easy to work with. We shot a variety of [...]
