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 [...]
IPHONE ADVENTURE
Every year Libby and I send out a self-designed holiday card using our own skills as graphic artists and photographers. When it came time to produce this year’s card we had some initial trouble coming up with a fresh idea. After a bit of thinking I came up with the idea of using images taken [...]
IN PRINT: Edward Kampf for Houston Chronicle
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Houston Chronicle PUBLICATION DATE: November 7, 2009 LINK: N/A NOTES: From time to time I get an assignment to make a quick business portrait from the Chronicle. A portrait assignment assigned to me by the Chron and a portrait assignment assigned to me by a business magazine may seem similar and may [...]
IN PRINT: Brad Ausmus for Sports Illustrated
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: SI.com / Sports Illustrated PUBLICATION DATE: October 16th, 2009 LINK: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/the_bonus/10/16/brad.ausmus/index.html NOTES: This image of former Astro, Brad Ausmus, was taken during batting practice. He had just signed with the Dodgers and this was his first time back at Minute Maid Park since the move. He was laughing and carrying on with [...]
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 [...]
IN PRINT: Brad Burke for Rice University
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Rice University: Jones Graduate School of Business promotional brochure PUBLICATION DATE: October 2009 LINK: http://business.rice.edu/ NOTES: I met Brad Burke, Rice University’s managing director of the Jones Graduate School of Business while on assignment for the Houston Chronicle. I was assigned to photograph Burke for a business feature for the paper and [...]
WHOSE HOUSE?
What a great few weeks. This is my first Fall back in Houston in 3 years. Fall internships have kept me away and its great to be home during this time. I have certainly missed the days when the Houston weather starts to get mild(er) and more importantly I get to cover my hometown Houston Texans [...]
IN PRINT: Houston Cougars for ESPN
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: ESPN.com / ESPN The Magazine PUBLICATION DATE: September 28th, 2009 LINK: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/8520/houston-stays-even-keeled-after-texas-tech-win NOTES: I shot this image of Case Keenum, the quarterback of my Alma-Mater, the University of Houston Cougars during the amazing win over the Texas Tech Red Raiders at Robertson Stadium in Houston, Texas.
IN PRINT: The Dog Whisperer for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009 LINK: http://houstonpettalk.com NOTES: I shot this image during a shoot with Cesar near Lake Conroe, north of Houston during this past Summer. He was filming an episode of his hit NatGeo channel show, The Dog Whisperer and I was lucky to be able to tag [...]
SATURDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
So I got a call from a friend and newspaper photo editor to cover the high school season opener (aka Week 0) game between the North Shore Mustangs and the Katy Tigers at Rhodes Stadium in Katy last night. I don’t shoot as much sports as I used to given the fact that my primary [...]
WARPED TOUR 2009
Yes, this is one of these posts. The ones where I preface my blog entry by apologizing for my absence and saying that it won’t happen again, but it’s bound to. At least I have a good excuse. For the past month now Ive been in Brasil with a 10-day visit to Africa. There are [...]
DOCK DOGS
On Saturday morning after a Chron assignment up north, I headed out to Discovery Green (Houston’s new-ish park downtown) to check out the Dock Dogs event. It’s a nationwide competition where local dogs compete in a series of events such as longest jump, highest, etc. I saw some other images from similar events from colleagues [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A SHOW AND A WIN
My second proper Houston live music show of 2009 crept up on me quick. I had no idea there was a show I had planned on attending tonight, but thankfully the Rockets were playing in LA, which meant the game didn’t start until 9:30pm CST. That gave Chris and I enough time to go to [...]
IN PRINT: Performing Pets for Pet Talk
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Pet Talk Magazine PUBLICATION DATE: April 2009 LINK: http://s49388.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/09_pettalk_04.pdf NOTES: The image above is of Grover and Shawn. Shawn is a collector of rare birds and Grover is a rare hyacinth macaw native to the central Brazilian Amazon region. Hyacinths are majestic creatures, the largest flying parrot species in the world. Shawn [...]
STOP:LOVE
Ahhh Valentine’s Day. I usually don’t look forward to this day even though I should since I am in a wonderful relationship and not sad and alone, however it just means I have to find something to get my lovely lady, usually at the last minute. In the end, they usually turn out OK, but [...]
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 [...]
IN PRINT: Bloody Midgets featured on SportsShooter
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: SportsShooter.com PUBLICATION DATE: January 23rd, 2009 LINK: http://sportsshooter.com NOTES: I was delighted to see my essay on midget wrestling was featured on the front page over at SportsShooter.com. See the entire series on my main portfolio website HERE.
BLOODY MIDGETS
What a weekend! I’ve been pretty busy shooting the past week. After shooting several assignments this week for the Houston Chronicle, I decided to take Friday night and shoot something for myself. I had seen that the Half Pint Brawlers were coming into town for a midget wrestling show and I knew that I had [...]
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 [...]
THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
I have been doing a lot of video work, self-teaching and archiving lately, but today I actually did some still shooting so I felt it facilitated a blog posting. I was planning on heading out to check out some extreme ice sculpture when I found out that a few friends of mine were headed out [...]
