Proto

I did a portrait up by the New Hampshire/Vermont border for Proto magazine of Elliot Fisher, who has done a lot of interesting research on the quality of health care in America. Besides getting ridiculously lost, it was pretty eventless.. although we did find a great diner on the way back, which is always a plus!

Itty Bitty Titty Committee

Back in the fall I photographed two of the actresses from Itty Bitty Titty Committee for The Advocate. Melonie Diaz and Nicole Vicius posed at the Dabora Gallery in Brooklyn, and I got quite a few beautiful shots of these talented young women!

NYC Photo Salon

I am presenting my work at the NYC Photo Salon, January 16th at 6:30pm, at the Soho Photo Gallery at 15 White Street. The other presenters are Santiago Arvisu, Kyle Cassidy, Rivka Katvan, Ali Smith, and Jay Maisel. I haven't attended one of their meetings before, but I'm excited nonetheless! Come check it out if you have the time, there is an entry fee of $10 to help pay for the space.

Virginia

A few photos from over Thanksgiving...

Time Out Kids

Currently I have a photo on the cover of Time Out NY Kids as well as a feature story about parent types. I've never photographed babies before, and while the ones we shot were all happy, they kept crawling off set. So we put them back on, held them in place, let go for the shot, and they crawled off again. Such a vicious cycle...

American Idol Camp

Back in July I went and photographed American Idol Camp for Marie Claire Australia. It was quite an ordeal, as I moved that weekend and arrived at the car place too late and they gave my car away. Initially, I was pretty upset, since their only other car they had cost more money... but as I took the top off the brand new white Mustang Convertible, I realized it wasn't going to be too bad. I drove up to Massachusetts with the writer and my assistant, and despite the frequent power outages (always right after I set up the lights, and the model arrived), it was quite a good weekend!

Costa Rica

Lately I just can't seem to travel enough, so when my friend was visiting from Australia and we found $250 round trip tickets to Costa Rica, we got right on that. We left three days later, and went to the town of La Fortuna (next to an active volcano) for a couple days and spent our last night in the city of Alejuela. Somehow my high school Spanish skills came back to me, so we were able to get around without much of a problem. I was mostly "vacationing" and didn't take too many pictures, but I scanned some of the ones I liked.... and here they are.

Big Guns

Back in March I went upstate to photograph a story for Field and Stream about a woman who won an essay contest they were having on being a female hunter. Now, I may have grown up in the country, but I've never been around guns. Ever. Let alone people firing them so close to my head. I must have looked nervous, so they gave me the big ear phone type things that block out the noise. There was also no snow when we left New York, so when we arrived at the shooting range we found that we were not only under dressed for the cold but not wearing the proper footwear for the snowy/muddy conditions. Thirteen hours later, we arrived back in New York, dirty, soaked and tired, but I got some great shots so I can't complain.

Eddie Adams Workshop, Part 2

I also went to a local trailer park and took pictures during the workshop, and I've included some other random photos and portraits I took around the farm. I think I got a total of 2 hours of sleep a night, and by the last day I was pretty much delirious from exhaustion. Once I got back to New York (after missing the bus because my phone/alarm was on vibrate) I made an attempt to catch up on sleep, although I didn't think things through enough in advance and had bought concert tickets for the night I got back. I survived (somehow), and in my delirium purchased tickets to Costa Rica for the upcoming weekend. I'll be posting photos soon!