Atheist Pastor for TIME magazine

I had the pleasure of going down to Houston, TX to shoot this interesting story on Atheism for TIME.

I've included some of the other shots that weren't picked for the story, but I still liked.
I used a projector for some of the shots.  The idea was to show these pastors "walking away from the church".

Methodist Minister

I love jobs that take me and introduce me to genuinely cool people.  Jason Valendy's shoot was one of those.  I wasn't real sure going into it, him being a Methodist minister and all.  Not that I have any issues with Methodists or anything, just that I was ready for a boring, old, "better than thou" kind of minister.  He was super nice, laid back, up for whatever idea I had and even  slipping in a "curse word" every now and then ( I think to let us know he's normal and non judgemental).  It worked, we got off to a good start and had a great time.  Thanks Jason for a great shoot, I'd sit in your pew and listen to you talk any day.

Here is the image that the magazine ran, but below are a few others I liked.

Cover Shoot for Spirit Magazine

Had an amazing time shooting the cover shot and opener for Spirit magazine recently.  The concept was travel destinations that are remembered because of the aromas.  We had to shoot a model in an ambiguous location being led by her sense of smell.  I found myself telling the model over and over "Let your nose lead you."  We laughed a good amount afterwards about that.  Kait Ri (model) did an awesome job at an interesting task.

Recent Tears

So, I've been getting pretty backed up in tears that I needed to blog, so I'm just going to put a few in on this one.  These are from FD Luxe, DCEO and Luxe magazine.

San Diego, Salt Lake City, Qingdao China and Back

I had a pretty awesome traveling job that I was pumped about shooting.  It took me to San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Qingdao China.  I had the pleasure of working with Kile Brekke, the senior designer over at Curran & Connors Inc. again.  He's a real cool guy with some amazing talent.  The concept was simply shooting portraits of specific people that work with Varian (the client) in a way that shows their location they are at.  Here is the finished product.

Then here are some BTS from the locations:

TV Commercial for Enterhealth

I shot and directed this TV Commercial that is playing now for Enterhealth recently.  It was a very complicated but fun shoot.  As you can tell it is a time-lapse, which is basically thousands of photos put together to make a video.  The tough part was getting the "passing of time" look.  Though you can't tell as much in the final edit, the shadow of the ice cube moves the entire time to appear as though the sun was rising and setting. There were other obstacles we had to conquer like the consistent timing of ice cubes melting, making the Enterhealth logo inside of a large ice cube, capturing interesting things happening inside the cube, ect. Couple all of that with my amazing editor Dustin Bailey and you've got what you see here.

Enterhealth-ICE from Justin Clemons on Vimeo.

D Mag - Nurses

I had the pleasure of meeting and working with 6 of the best nurses in Dallas on this one.  It was so cool hanging out and talking with them about what they do.  I love learning other peoples stories, its so interesting to me.  All six of these nurses were amazing people and extremely dedicated to what they do.  Dallas you are in good hands.

It was a pleasure working with you:  Nergis Blood, Audrey Ayres, Megan Linker, Carole Inman, Daiwai Olson and the cutest little nurse I've ever met Lee Lee Lee (yes that is her name).

A funny side note:  That is my sisters arm being "bandaged" by nurse Nergis, in the opening image.  She was pretty excited about that.