Office With More Than A View

After getting back from a week vacation in the beautiful ski town of Red River, NM, I was able to sort through some of my favorite shots.

Our vacation turned into more like a working vacation - it was either staying and working here in Phoenix, or being up in the cool pines and aspens where the average high temps were in the mid 60s. It's not a real hard choice where I would rather work! We were also lucky enough to time our trip with the aspens putting on their yearly fall show. Breathtaking at every turn.

Even with work I had time fish and play with my pinhole camera (as soon as I get the film developed, I will post shots).






Here are a few infrared images...

Faces of Success

It was great and very fulfilling to see a portrait project I have been working on since February for Human Services Campus finally displayed in their newly renovated historic building in downtown Phoenix.

All of these eleven individuals were once homeless. Today, they all sleep in their own beds, in their own homes or apartments. No longer on the streets, they are now self-reliant, productive, fulfilled citizens. Human Services Campus, with many Phoenix agencies, corporations and individuals have worked to enable the breakthroughs described in their stories. Each one of these people were remarkable to work with and have remarkable stories.

To see the finished eleven portraits, click here.

As Promised...

As promised here are a few of my favorite shots from last week's shoots for Handcrafted Media at John Elway's Crown Toyota and then his Manhattan Beach Toyota's Grand Opening event. John is not only a NFL legend, but a incredibly intelligent, generous, pretty darn funny and a really great guy to work with. And of course there is never a dull moment when you are working with David at Handcrafted Media and as always, great gigs. Thanks David!

Happenstance

Going through the numerous images from my Elway shoot last week I came across one of the coolest shots I've taken - just happened to drop one of my cameras at the Manhattan Beach Toyota event and hit the shutter as I caught it - sometimes you're just lucky in more ways than one.

Worth the Long Road Trip Back Home

On my drive back from the Elway shoot for Handcrafted Media in Ontario I stopped off between the cities of Indio and Blythe at an abandoned elementary school in Desert Center, town (pop. 125) located in the Colorado Desert of Southern California.

The first school in the area was this Desert Center School, which was originally a red-brick schoolhouse built by Steve Ragsdale in the 1940s. Their motto 'Where Children Come First' must of been easy to stand by because the K-8 school had a staff around 2 and averaged 19 students!

I have passed by this school many times in the last 20+ years and always thought it would be a great place to shoot. I was right. After hiking with flip-flops through the hot desert and broken glass to find the music room - it made it all worth it!

...and as promised, I'll be posting some pics from the Elway shoot soon