Business Week Cover

Brioche and Pan de Mie

APA Party

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Elizabeth Avedon

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Rye Bread

Large Camera Stand/Small Studio

Bread

Archive Ad

Sod Promo

Stick Around :Life gets interesting

Here is an Ad I shot a while ago that finally ran in the Geographic.

After Capture Magazine profiles TB

“If I didn’t care about my own work,
I might as well be an accountant—it’d be
an easier way to go for sure. Ever since I’ve
started photography, I’ve been doing work
for myself. If there was another way to do it,
I would. If I could be happy just taking pictures
for other people and not taking pictures
for myself, I’d do it. But I’ve always felt
compelled to make photographs for myself.
Photography is such a gift in the way that
through the simple act of looking at something
and giving it your full attention you
can transform a simple, mundane thing and
make it beautiful and thought-provoking.”

" After graduation,
he wanted to be a documentary photographer,
and left for the retirement town of Sun
City, AZ, to document the community that
was developed in the 50s. In the process, he
became burned out with photography. “I
sold all my equipment, moved out to California
and stopped shooting for five or six
years,” Broening says. “I honestly thought I
was done shooting. But during the hiatus I
continued to see photographs all the time.
Mostly I was struck by how light fell on
something and then I would think about
where in the scene the photograph was. I
think I am hard-wired that way. Strange as
it may sound, you don’t need a camera to
be a photographer.”

Stanford Magazine for Susan Scandrett

TB on Flak Photo

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Sod is up on TB.com

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Archive Ad

Snow

I think I am done with Sod project.

Sir Fenn Makes the Big Time

Shaun Fenn, former assistant, makes it into Communication Arts.
http://www.commarts.com/fresh/shaun-fenn.html

Which one?

Cranking out more editorial

Heal

It looks like that as the result of an injury I will have to put my career as a professinal pickup soccer player to the side. Which means I will have to go to the good old fall back:photography. I have been cranking on a bunch of editorial the last few weeks while I wait for my leg to heal.

Golf Outtake

Sod Edit

Fire and Bug zapper reshoot

Grass Fire

This seemed like a good idea at the time

Bug Zapper

I am not sure if this is working and will need to reshoot it to find out why.

SAW

Saw Grass

Archive Ad

Watering the office

I went to the gardening section at The Home Depot in search of something to photograph on the sod and found this attachment. I connected it to the hose next to the house and had my 8 year old turn on the water while I made an exposure. The water came on stronger than I expected and ended up on the ceiling and the floor. My daughter and I thought it was funny but my wife.
Not so much.

Turf Love

Lighting the group

Sod in the Office

Sod Photography

Did you know that you can buy sod for $2.70 a roll. So cheap I bought 2.

Muse Redux

Jay: My muse

I shot Jast last night again. This time outside the Skidmore designed building in Oakland not far from my house. Can't wait to see the film.

New Portfolio Page

Paper Series Promo

Shaun Fenn: Boy Genius

Shaun Fenn is a photographer that Archibald and I have worked with in the past. He is one motivated mofo. He came to photography late in life but sure is making up for lost time. When we started working together he asked me how he should promote himself to magazines. I mentioned that most editors were in New York and that he should schlep his book around. 10 days later he was on a plane. While driving to a job together he mentioned he and his kids went mountain biking in Lake Tahoe and decribed all the armour the riders wore. I said that sounded like it might make some cool images. Three days later he was up on the mountain shooting portraits. Now he has really hit it out of the park with this set of images inspired by the Adam and Eve motif.

Golfer

I shot this portrait of a golfer suffering from clinical depression last week.

Promotion

I sent out an editorial mailing today. One magazine called Concrete News. WTF? I am also targeting the other end of the market with a new Archive ad.

Polaroids in a hotel room

We had to rent a hotel room for a few hours for a shoot yesterday. As we were packing up I turned around and saw the trash can full of polaroids. There are worse ways to make a living.

Rough Draft

KAA Redux

TB.com Update

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Modesto

Brace Yourself

If you work in advertising , used to work in advertising or if your neighbor's dog worked in advertising then brace yourself because you will probably get this spam from me in the next 48 hours.