Road Trip

Any guess where I was ? (hint : Google " corridor of shame") Seems like I've been doing a lot of traveling lately, that's why the SUV is in the shop........ I was a long ride home.

Taking over the lobby

Some work for GE with GyroHSR out of NY. When a 15x15 foot conference room with a table in the middle won't do, sometime you have to take matters into your own hands. The lobby worked out well and everyone left happy. Got to start packing again, big shoots next week ........

Spruce Pines Production

I was the still guy on this production ( confidentiality agreement ). Maybe 25+ people and a caravan of 18 cars/trucks driving the mountain roads with 4 locations. I was blown away by the director Doug Walker with Mirror Films I thought I went 110 miles an hour on set, Doug was at 200+. His creativity and vision blew me away. Got to get my video thing moving ...............

It never fails ..........

There was a travel day in the budget so I left a little early, thought I'd cruz the Blue Ridge Parkway do some hiking etc. It'd be interesting to look through the archives on this blog to see exactly how many times I've been up here shooting, 7 maybe 8 ?
It never fails the weather is always crappy rain,snow,fog. This time was no exception, it was chilly,foggy and rainy. I had my snowboard coat in the car left over from last winter ? I rolled the windows down and cruised the Parkway jamming to the Stones and the Cure. Kinda of a Zen moment.
I decided to hike to Crabtree Falls ( a moderate 1.5 mile rocky all downhill hike ). Had my Sinar ND filters with me, but not the right time of day for a great waterfall shot. I hadn't seen anyone for @ 2 1/2 hours and started thinking about Bears and gave myself the heebie jeebies, and made record time heading back up the trail.

Random Spruce Pines

Just some random shots around the town of Spruce Pines.

Time Magazine Behind the scenes

About 4 months ago I got a call from TIME to do a shoot (any photographers dream assignment) but I was already double booked that day. I was totally bummed ....... My wife was very supportive and said they'd call back, and they did.

Taking the photo's was the easy part, it was a logistics nightmare. 12 people 2 set-up's each over 2 days in and around Roxboro NC. A big shout out and thank you to photographer Mark Petko for assisting me on the shoot.

I'll probably be going to hell for goofing around in the church, but Oh well life goes on.

Tech info.- Kept it simple, there were so many shots and not a lot of TIME (no pun intended). A combination of Profoto and AB's

Time Magazine

Some shots that didn't make it into the "The Ripple Effect". The story got bumped due to the passing of Kennedy.