FORBES - Aguascalientes

Forbes magazine called me up and asked if I would like to go down to Aguascalientes, Mexico to shoot a feature for them.  I said "When do I leave".  It would be shooting the Governor, the head of the Nissan plant and a range of shots of the car plant. 

Everyone was so kind and hospitable.  The Governor even offered up his personal helicopter to get some arial shots, I of course said yes.  Then after the shoot his daughter (who was a talented photographer herself) took my assistant and I and showed us around town.  She graciously gave us a first person view of the culture down there.  We had some amazing first experiences that day including having dinner with the Governor, diplomats and beauty queens, personal tour of the San Marcos Fair (largest fair in South America), watching a cock fight, having drinks in the Gov's private club, going to a concert of the biggest heartthrob in Mexico with amazing seats, all under body guards consistent watch.  It was a pretty cool experience that I am very thankful to have had.  

WSJ - Roger Staubach

This was definitely a shoot I'll remember.  I recently got to shoot Roger Staubach, former star quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys for the Wall Street Journal.  Such a nice guy!  He gave me plenty of time and was cool with shooting some of my concepts that I brought up.  We had a blast, and my assistants were pretty excited to throw the pigskin with one of the best quarterbacks in history.

Here are a couple other shots that weren't printed, but I liked a lot.  

DCEO - 2014 Entrepreneurs of The Year

Here is a recent shoot that I shot for DCEO magazine.  These are the top Entrepreneurs of the Year.  I had a good time shooting and getting to know all of them.

I wanted to do something a little different with these that tied them all together visually.  So, my solution was to set up this framework that I hung plexi glass covered in colored gels at different heights and depths to shoot through.  I really liked the result, I just had to keep moving around them to get cool compositions.  I liked the photo editors picks, but I added a few at the end that I thought were interesting to me, they are a little more abstract and creative I thought.

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.