Blind Appriciation

A special thanks to Eric and Adrian for being the (at the time)
unknowing subjects of this piece.

Week Two at the maine Media Workshops

We just wrapped up Creativity for Media Teachers here at the Maine Media Workshops. I had a great time assisting Jim Stone this week as a group of educators ranging from grizzeled veterens near retirment to young gun getting ready to have a full class for the first time.
Our class:

Jim Stone is a very funny guy and I highly recommend hearing him lecture if you get the chance!

Here's a quick Bio on Jim:

Jim Stone turned to photography while studying engineering at MIT. His photographs have been exhibited and published internationally, and collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. Six of his books, A User’s Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, A Short Course in Photography and A Short Course in Digital Photography (both with Barbara London), Photography 10th Edition, and Photography: The Essential Way (both books with Barbara London and John Upton), are in wide and continued use for university-level courses, and there have been three artist’s books published of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).

Stone has received awards from the Massachusetts Arts Council, The New England Foundation for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was the editor of Polaroid’s Newsletter for Photographic Education, and taught formerly at the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently he is Associate Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico.

Bread

I had the option of a food shot for my final Hallmark portfolio so I hunkered down and created this one today.

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!

Visit to the Cape

So my buddy Adam invited me to come up to cape cod this weekend to do some shooting. I asked him why they called it "the cape" rather than "The Cod" and he just stared at me a shook his head.

Sunrise color lasted about as long as it takes for my dog to get excited when someone comes over (he's a boxer after all)

but the resulting clouds about 30 minutes later were spectacular...

This place is looking a bit hard edged....

I figured I should soften up all the metal with a gratuitous baby shot ;-)

Coast Mini-Tac

The Coast Mini Tac's are pretty awesome. I'm thinking of using this as the basis of an add for my final portfolio over here at Hallmark...