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.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 1 OF 4: OKTOMAT
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 first in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lomo Octomat 35mm camera.
BEST OF THE CHRONICLE 2010 (JAN-JUNE)
One of my regular editorial clients is my hometown newspaper, The Houston Chronicle. Since my workload lately consists of more corporate work, getting an assignment from the Chron often seems like a much needed break. From triathlons to plastic surgeons, these are my favorite images produced on location for The Houston Chronicle between January and June, 2010.
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 [...]
BACKSTAGE WITH PLANET FUNK
I spent some time this past Saturday afternoon with longtime client, Planet Funk Academy at the Wortham Center in Houston’s theater district as they prepared to take the stage. I have photographed the renowned dance academy for nearly 5 years now and although the faces have changed, the energy is still the same. During my [...]
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 [...]
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: Planet Funk in Qatar for Health and Fitness
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: Health and Fitness Magazine PUBLICATION DATE: December 2009 LINK: http://www.healthandfitnessmag.com/ NOTES: This is a two-page spread in the December 2009 issue of Health and Fitness Magazine about Planet Funk’s trip to Qatar in October. I accompanied the group and had an incredible time. I did a fair amount of video in addition [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SARAH JADE
Did a quick shoot with a good friend earlier this week, Sarah. Luckily Sarah and her boyfriend Ryan live right across the street so it was just a short walk and I was there. Sarah needed some simple shots for to show to a prospective modeling agency and I obliged by shooting a few of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
