new work updates

In the past couple of months I’ve been at work on a number of cool projects…so here are some updates! For starters, a long term personal project (mixed media portraits) is finally starting to bear some fruit. I’ve been shooting these for about two months when I’m not busy with other work. All of the subjects are artists who live in or participate in projects in the New Orleans area. Here’s a sample, via flickr:

The process involves a specific lighting setup plus illustration/incorporation of the geometry in post. All in all I aim to have at least 20 of these made…and hopefully be done before the end of the year

I’ve also been at work on some automotive and architectural photography in Texas. Assisting me was Justin Cesler, also an automotive photographer and editor. Justin and I are planning some big things for next year — keep an eye out!

end of summer recap

Amazing how quickly summer becomes fall. Predictably, no one mentioned this to the weather in New Orleans — with highs in the 90’s and rain all day. Particularly hard to deal with coming from a couple of amazing weeks in northern California, enjoying San Francisco and Lake Tahoe as well as the much-talked-about Burning Man arts festival in Nevada. The latter was an amazing experience, almost beyond words.  Despite the fact that Black Rock City is a very dusty place I decided to take cameras with me. I’ve seen some horror photos. After they were sufficiently covered in a ball of ziplock bag and duct tape I made some trips across the playa with my buddy Wren and shot some photos. Here’s a brief tour (the rest are here) :

Happy to report zero dust made it to the cameras This was a great adventure to end a summer of travel. In the past few months I’ve made it through New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Alaska, Washington, California, and Nevada. Saw tons of friends and family, made additions to my landscape photo portfolio, and hiked through the most beautiful parts of the Western US. Settling back into life in New Orleans, the next adventure is already on the table: in a little less than 6 months I’ll be leaving the US and traveling through Asia with my great friend Dan Ramirez. I’ll be detailing a lot more on that expedition over the next couple of months. In the mean time regular work continues, and automotive photo is picking back up. I’m headed out of town next month to shoot some incredible cars. Fellow automotive photographer Justin Cesler will be joining me in Houston to assist on the awesome multi car shoot. I’m looking forward to working with many cars I’ve never shot before, and some I’ve never even seen! In other car photo news, a recent look through my archives turned up some great photos I’d never published online. I started processing them and decided to have a little more fun with it; they got a lot more post processing than I normally dole out. The set was featured on Behance Network a couple of weeks ago. Here are my favorites:

alaska

Fresh back from a trip to Alaska! I went deep sea fishing (”just for the halibut”) and salmon fishing way up the Yentna River. I hiked through the Chugach along the Russian River and caught a glacier landing flight at Denali basecamp. And (of course) I took some photos. Here are a few of my favorites from the trip.

I also shot a series of aerial photographs which are featured on my Behance portfolio. Although I only ventured through a small portion of Alaska I was treated to many beautiful bird’s eye views of the landscape…many of its intriguing patterns were very striking to me. Full set here.