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 [...]
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 to my still [...]
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 require a [...]
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 after the story [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LIVE MUSIC FUN
I’m totally on a blogging spree today. Tonight my boy Stef aka P.O.S. came to town with Saosin and Underoath and another hokey new metal band that all the kids like. Stef is a hip-hop artist and it’s always lovely to see him open for punk/metal acts. All of the 15-18 year old kids smashed [...]
THE GOOD LOSER
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of spending some time with 82-year-old Mickey Stubblefield at his home in his hometown of Mayfield, Kentucky. Mickey is a former Navy veteran, Shriner Mason, Kentucky Colonel, and was also the first African-American baseball player ever to play in the Kitty Leagues. He receives an average [...]
PUMPKINS
Since the lady leaves tomorrow for Houston, we decided to pick up a few pumpkins at the Fells Point Safeway. I feel guilty buying them from Safeway given the fact that I’ve covered countless events at local farms that feature fresh pumpkin patches, but I like to think I just bought them from the retailer [...]
IN PRINT: Hanenburg for the Rocky Mountain News
PUBLICATION OR LOCATION: The Rocky Mountain News
PUBLICATION DATE: August 8th, 2008
LINK: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/27/pressure-doesnt-faze-hanenburg/
NOTES: I shot this image of cross country star Kaitlin Hanenburg in late 2007 for the Colorado Springs Gazette before it was picked up a year later by the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado.
THE LOVELY LACEY
Last week and this week have been pretty busy. I did two portrait shoots with a modern dancer named Lacey Grantz. We did one studio session on Thursday and did some fun outdoor, natural light stuff on Saturday. The top photo was from Saturday’s take and the bottom was from the studio session. We did [...]
INTROSPECTION
…or just a cheesy self-portrait? I guess it’s really not a self-portrait since my friend Drew pressed the button. This image is a result of a spontaneous night of shooting a few friends of mine had recently. I wanted to try a few different lighting ideas for an upcoming commercial shoot and it ended up [...]
