28th Anniversary Pictures

We had a great time taking some 28th wedding anniversary photos with Eileen and Roger this past Labor day. They found us through our booth at Denver's community band festival this past August, a very fun event with performers from all over the city!

We went to the park in Aurora they were married in (it was the only one at the time with any big-ish trees)and had a blast. In chatting I found out they never had engagement photos done so they figured it was about time!

It was great to see how much they loved each other after so many years and I'd like to thank them for such a great time!

Photo courtesy of Katie ;-)

Photographs that Make and Impact with Stan Grossfeld

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of assisting Stan Grossfeld in his Photographs that make an Impact class at the maine Media Workshops. A two time Pulitzer winner, he say's he's probably known more now as a sports writer/photographer for the Boston Globe.

The Students created 7 picture photo essays that were super awesome an diverse considering that they found their stories on Monday (not an easy feat in sleepy mid-coast Maine) then developed them over the week. We had a story on the Homeless in Rockland, Somalians in Lewiston and Water buffalo in Appleton to name a few.

I learned a ton about not only creating a photo story for publication to effect social change but also about photojournalism past and present.

I'd just like to say thanks to Stan and the class!

EOD Bomb Suit

So I had the good fortune to photograph a bomb squad officer in his EOD suit yesterday. It was an awesome shoot and I'd like to thank everyone involved in making it happen from Dave at Quabbin inc (inventing geniuses, everything from paper products to bomb diffusion equipment),  www.quabbininc.com for setting the whole thing up to my assistant for the day Adam Caron (a multiple award winning  portrait photographer based in Holland) www.thislifephotography.com for making it all run smooth.

I'd also like to especially thank the state police officer who put on the 75+ pound suit and stood like a statue in any position I asked him to be in.  

He was great to work with and he really gave me an appreciation for what these guys and gals do.

I'm proud to have guys like him protecting our backsides 

More images to come!