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December 25, 2024

Preparing for your Photo Session

Preparing for your photo session means being relaxed and ready! And guess what? Your...
September 14, 2024

Casa Bonita

I can FINALLY share my architectural interiors from last year of the amazing Casa...
November 10, 2023

Location Headshots: Colorado Edition

Outdoor location headshots are always an adventure! These two setups required a 6’ overhead...
June 16, 2023

Livanova: Lifesaving Products

Ever hear of a Heart/Lung Machine? Consider yourself lucky. In the most complicated surgeries,...
May 11, 2023

High-Tech Startup

How do you handle an employee all-hands when your company was formed in the...
April 11, 2023

Location Portraits: Challenging Office!

Location portraits are hard. That’s why I like doing them. All the years of...
March 15, 2023

Robotic Surgery at Good Sam

Robotic surgery sounds otherworldly, but it’s actually becoming somewhat commonplace. Certain procedures, like prostate...
February 16, 2023

Location Portraits 2023

One of my great pleasures in photography is making portraits on location. It combines...
January 12, 2023

Singing the Blues with Ernie Santella

Many of you know Ernie as one of Denver’s great videographers. Well-traveled, talented and...
November 17, 2022

Cookin’ With Clover

Clover make those point-of-purchase terminals we’ve all used at coffee shops, but they also...
October 20, 2022

Politics 2022

Politics is supposed to be a miserable business, right? Well, I must have pissed...
September 15, 2022

Photo-Centric TV Spots

What a cool concept. Inspired by modern social media photographers’ love of high-speed sync...
August 18, 2022

A Twist on Portraits

Splunk! That’s the sound of me being plopped into a beautiful Boulder tech office....
July 14, 2022

Headshots at your Conference

Convenience! I’ve been taking a lot of headshots at conferences lately. Why? Mostly because...
June 16, 2022

Remote Associates

Since 2020, we’ve all seen a really noticeable rise in remote working situations. Just...
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May 12, 2022

In-House Stock

This month, I had the pleasure of shooting a pretty chunky in-house stock library...
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March 10, 2022

Cold, Dark Day

Environmental office portraits are always both a challenge and a lot of fun, and...
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February 16, 2022

New Digs

One of my law firm clients recently moved from a low-slung DTC office, to,...
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January 12, 2022

The Suite Life

My wonderful client, Sentral, who design and build the hippest of apartment communities, asked...
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December 17, 2021

The Union Next Door

This month’s shoot with Bighorn Co. was real blast. The goal was to make...
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November 17, 2021

Lifestyle for Uplight

Production stills are generally a great experience, especially when you know the crew well,...
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October 15, 2021

The Candidate

My friend and colleague, newly-minted attorney Johnnie Nguyen, is running for office. He’s going...
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September 19, 2021

Ringing the Bell

“That sounds so cool!” I said to the events coordinator at Jackson, my Financial...
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August 15, 2021

Annual Report – Midwest Edition

Last month saw another challenging but fun multi-day shoot for Black Hills Energy. Their...
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July 15, 2021

Case Study: New Business Portraits

I hope this is obvious. Here’s the website of a client who just redid...
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June 16, 2021

Workin’ in a Gold Mine

This month saw a challenging and endlessly interesting shoot. The Black Hills of South...
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May 7, 2021

Flexibility is Key

Let’s talk business portraits, AKA headshots. Last month, I had the pleasure of doing...
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April 15, 2021

Editorial on a Big Day

March 5 with the first day of vaccine availability for agricultural workers, and JBS...
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March 3, 2021

Windy City

Annual report assignments are routinely the best. Small or no crew, but willing and...
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February 11, 2021

Joey for Forum Financial

The only good part of working during a pandemic is facing interesting challenges. I...
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January 18, 2021

Do You See What I See?

Why, why, WHY do we sometimes see different things on our monitors? Occasionally I...
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December 10, 2020

Magazine Work

The Construction Blue Book is a regional (a dozen or so states) professional contractor’s...
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November 12, 2020

Komatsu Gives Back

It’s always nice to see your work A. Blown up huge and B. Used...
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October 26, 2020

It’s Been A Year

Being a client of one of the region’s great political strategists gets exciting for...
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September 12, 2020

Is Your Photographer Insured?

You make sure the gardener, cable guy, plumber, and roofer are insured, right? Often...
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August 13, 2020

Social Distancing with H&R Block

This month’s shoot was super interesting. This year, tax filing deadlines were extended into...
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July 15, 2020

Outdoor Business Portraits

Well, this has been an interesting year. And the business portrait train did not...
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June 15, 2020

Gotcha Covered: How Altitude Arts Backs Up Our Work

Stop worrying. That’s my gig. Nobody thinks more about lost files more than me....
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May 10, 2020

Advanced Retouching

All photographers are also retouchers, to some extent. Most of us can remove a...
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April 10, 2020

Elevated Event Photography

A few weeks ago, I was asked by Mile High Stadium to cover one...
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March 15, 2020

Perfect Practice III

This week, I had the pleasure of working with the hippest doctor’s office I’ve...
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February 15, 2020

Dartmouth Medicine

This month, I had the pleasure of photographing one of the pillars of the...
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January 26, 2020

Sled Dogs for Goodyear

Every so often, you end up on a really wild shoot. This one was...
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December 15, 2019

Von’s Vision

The great Bronco Von Miller stopped by 34 Left studios the other day, to...
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November 26, 2019

CableFax Cover

This month, we got an interesting assignment from Access Intelligence in Maryland. Their annual...
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October 26, 2019

Wyoming in Summer

A big new gas pipeline was going in, just outside Cody, Wyoming. And these...
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September 26, 2019

Half Times

Always a pleasure to get out on location and put something together. This week’s...
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August 15, 2019

Galas, Dinners, and Awards, Oh My!

Covering big events—Galas, dinners, awards ceremonies and the like—can be a real challenge. A...
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July 11, 2019

LinkedIn: The Round Crop

Traditionally, business portraits are cropped so that the eyes or bridge of the nose...
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June 19, 2019

Location Portrait Shoot: Always be Prepared!

One of my favorite clients invited me to their conference last month. Headshots were not on the...
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May 28, 2019

Black Hills Annual Report

Black Hills Energy, an electric and gas utility, is headquartered in Rapid City, South...
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April 8, 2019

Wide-angle Portraits

One of my favorite clients, the National Institute of Standards and Technology up in...
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March 6, 2019

Back on the Road

Meet Scott. Scott’s a bicycling nut, and rides daily to his software engineering job....
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February 14, 2019

Architectural Exteriors

A few months ago, we made a handful of new architectural exteriors for a...
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January 14, 2019

On-site Printing…

…Is not for sissies. Last month, assistant Josh and I made on-site prints for...
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December 5, 2018

Adams County Schools CAN

Everybody knows Colorado’s Adams County is known for its excellent school system. What they...
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November 20, 2018

Perfect Practice II

Dr. Smith is a brilliant surgeon. He can fix up your hands chin, eyes,...
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October 8, 2018

Golf Tournament: Mother of All Events

Anyone who calls themselves a “corporate photographer” is accustomed to shooting events of all...
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September 14, 2018

Recruitment Campaign

One of my favorite clients, SCL Health, has a department solely dedicated to attracting...
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July 11, 2018

Cover Me

Photographing an inside story for a magazine is always great, but getting to shoot...
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June 19, 2018

Comedy Special

Last month, I was asked to shoot stills for a stand-up comedy special featuring...
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May 9, 2018

Editorial: Tiny House, Tiny Baby

Recently I had the privilege of photographing Jen, Michael, and Scout for Good Health...
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April 17, 2018

QuickPost: Your LinkedIn Photo

Not everybody’s LinkedIn picture is terrible, but many, many are. I’m assuming yours is...
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February 8, 2018

Case Studies: Matching Another Style

One of the interesting things about our business is that often we’re asked not...
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January 17, 2018

Physician Profile

Every so often, one of your colleagues will need what we call a profile...
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November 15, 2017

Location Headshots

Sometimes clients are concerned that a location shoot, one that involves a background instead...
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September 14, 2017

Stock Shoot!

Neoscape of New York City is a very interesting client. When a developer or...
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August 7, 2017

Paralympian’s Challenge

What an amazing assignment. Arrow Electronics has teamed up with the National Sports Center...
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July 13, 2017

Top Chef 2018 – Colorado

Season 15 of the Emmy-winning cooking competition is wrapped! And being the only still...
June 12, 2017

Production Stills for WaterPik

It’s always nice to see my friends at WaterPik. I love their flossers and...
April 20, 2017

Annual Report: Double-Truck Photography

Fun assignment. Black Hills Corp., a Billings, Montana-based 8-state electric and gas utility, needed...
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March 3, 2017

Komatsu America

For the last several months, I’ve been on the road for Komatsu. They’re gearing...
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February 15, 2017

Pet Therapy!

One of my big clients, SCL Health, usually keeps me busy with business portraits,...
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January 11, 2017

Conference Photography

Big sales conferences are always a great way to spend a couple days. Clients...
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December 8, 2016

The Perfect Practice

A referral from a colleague, an energized, creative client, and a Saturday to ourselves:...
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November 9, 2016

Standards

Another amazing awards season up at NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) has...
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October 5, 2016

Wish You Were Here II

The folks at Crosspoint had created another poignant ad campaign. All they needed was...
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September 14, 2016

Adams 12 CAN For Kids

This past fall, the Adams 12 School District sought a little help with a...
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August 23, 2016

How Do I Save My Pictures?

Good question. Our new system is cool and fast, but those little CDs that...
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August 17, 2016

New: Instant Digital Delivery

I made it my mission this summer to get my photo files delivered in...
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August 11, 2016

An OMG Assignment

This month, the best-in-the-business marketing folks at O’Meara Ford reached out for a special...
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July 11, 2016

Web Redesign: Blackeagle Energy

Always great to kick off a big project in the middle of summer: Clear...
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June 14, 2016

Rain Barrels and Gov. Hick

This month, I had the pleasure of photographing an official bill-signing at the Governor’s...
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April 13, 2016

Architects on Location

This month, I was happy to hear from Ware Malcomb, a great California architectural...
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February 17, 2016

20/20 Lasik

Always a pleasure to see Dr. Mark Danzo of 20/20 Lasik. He and his...
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January 20, 2016

Sunny Shores

Attending and documenting conferences is something that happens pretty regularly around here. Considering hiring...
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November 11, 2015

360º QTVR

What’s 360º QTVR? QuickTime Virtual Reality, in a full circle. And if you’re on...
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October 8, 2015

Turn to Dust

What a campaign! My clients at Network Affiliates wanted to emphasize the pain felt...
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August 27, 2015

Controversy

This month, I was tasked by the official American Bar Association magazine, ABA Journal,...
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August 4, 2015

CU Health Web Overhaul

This month, I had the pleasure of working with Taylor Carpenter of Carpenter Design...
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July 3, 2015

Behind The Scenes: How it works

This month, I was asked by Western Union to photograph not only a couple...
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May 20, 2015

New Construction

A working construction site is a great place to do a shoot. It may...
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April 20, 2015

10-Foot Prints

You heard that right. My biggest client, SCL Health in Denver, had a birthday...
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March 25, 2015

Animal Planet’s ‘Animal House’

Animal Planet, who I had never shot for, has an amazing project underway right...
March 2, 2015

Self hosted video

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March 2, 2015

Audio post

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March 2, 2015

Quote

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
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February 23, 2015

Lindsey Vonn for the IOC

The 2015 World Downhill Championships were held in Vail this year, and what an...
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December 21, 2014

Monster Trucks

This fall, I was back at Komatsu’s Arizona Proving Grounds for some more giant truck...
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November 21, 2014

Jam Band

Fun night. Unusually, I was asked by Production Designer Dylan Kiszlowski, to cover a...
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October 21, 2014

Dept. of Commerce

Every year, like atomic clockwork, the communications folks at the National Institute of Standards...
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September 21, 2014

This Year in Business Portraits

Interesting new developments in location business portraits were afoot in 2014. Early in the...
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August 21, 2014

Inspiration at Indy

I’m sure you can tell from my personal vehicle what a total gear-head I...
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July 7, 2014

The Location Headshot

    A client told me the other day that another photographer who was...
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June 10, 2014

Business Portraits 101

Do you need a business portrait? Everyone says you do, but why? “How you...
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May 20, 2014

Project UpLift

One of my favorite clients, Ide8 Marketing, tackles annual reports with gusto, verve, and style....
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April 20, 2014

Colorado Correctional Industries

Colorado Correctional Industries is one of those things you never knew you didn’t know...
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March 23, 2014

Inside the Monastery

Well, it’s happened again. I was invited to photograph another remarkable set designed by...
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February 16, 2014

Location Challenges

Location photography is a great challenge. Add in humans, non-professional talent, kids, and (gasp!)...
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January 23, 2014

More Grist for NIST

Boulder’s crown jewels is the little-known National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST,...
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December 5, 2013

All About Retouching

Many of my clients see me for business portraits. Headshots, we like to call them....
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November 15, 2013

Legal Directory

“I don’t want to be photographed just standing there in the hallway,” attorney Bill...
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October 28, 2013

Katy Perry Rocks Lakewood High

Oh, come on. You were kind of excited to hear that the talented kids...
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August 9, 2013

Enough Confetti, Already!

For the 140th Anniversary of St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Exempla Healthcare wanted to make...
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July 24, 2013

HDR For Architecture

What the heck is HDR and why do you care?   If you require architectural...
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June 15, 2013

SourceGas Campaign

Have I mentioned the “People on Location” thing?Well, the good folks at SourceGas took...
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April 6, 2013

Snow Job

Another dry winter in Colorado has come and gone. In fact, as soon as...
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March 26, 2013

Endurance

Meet Gordon. Gordon likes to run. 100 miles at a time. But he also...
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March 26, 2013

An UpLifting Day

Colorado UpLift, funded by some of Colorado’s most successful businesspeople, is a program pairing...
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February 19, 2013

Since You Asked – Before and After

It’s not every day we get to dig into what your competitors are doing....
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February 15, 2013

Your Office as Studio

I’m often asked what’s the best space in an office for a corporate photo...
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February 2, 2013

Got Insurance?

Yes, that is one question you want to ask to your gardner, your mover, even your...
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November 3, 2012

Chez Elway II

File under: Celebrity Architectural Photography Some months ago, I had the pleasure of photographing...
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October 4, 2012

So…Much…Blood!

Click in the box to play. This month was all gory fun shooting...
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September 17, 2012

Good Will

This month saw an assignment both challenging and gratifying. I was asked to shoot...
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August 19, 2012

Big, Bigger, Biggest

MineExpo in Las Vegas sees the biggest vehicles in the world…All in one place....
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July 11, 2012

Ahead in the Polls

Every fourth year brings a slew of political calls to the studio, few of...
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June 16, 2012

Special Delivery

I had the pleasure this week, as part of a cross-promotion with a corporate...
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April 9, 2012

Shattered

Crosspoint Productions and Art Director Dylan Kiszlowski produce TV and radio commercials and edit them...
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March 21, 2012

Rock On

One of my healthcare clients is sponsoring a big, high-profile outdoor concert series at a...
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March 5, 2012

Stealth

The Exempla Healthcare system has always been a great client. Their needs range from...
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February 19, 2012

The Latest on Location

Winter in Greeley. The joke was: We have to wait for a clear day...
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November 18, 2011

First for Women

First for Women magazine (circulation 1.6 million), a great client, scheduled another shoot to...
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November 15, 2011

Red Chair

For the National Center for Women & Information Technology October summit, I was tasked...
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November 4, 2011

Kind Words

Sometimes, a great shoot followed by a kind word just makes your week. From...
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October 25, 2011

Triggers

This week was cool. I was shooting stills for the History Channel’s new show,...
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October 4, 2011

Chez Elway

Is it Architecture? Is it Product? It’s Archi-Product! This month, I got to step...
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September 21, 2011

Insert Joke Here

This week, I worked with the LA-based crew of an ABC reality show, Wife...
September 6, 2011

Youtube

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September 6, 2011

Vimeo

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August 22, 2011

This is a link

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August 14, 2011

Miles Smiles

Love that Miles. Every so often, the phone rings with not only a shoot,...
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July 27, 2011

The Starz Circus

The circus was on everyone’s mind this month as Starz rolled into LSI Studio...
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June 30, 2011

Work is Hell

Edward Weston said, “Photography…to the professional is work, and hard work too, no matter...
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June 20, 2011

Cold Spring

Spring has been weird everywhere, and Colorado has been no exception. But First for...
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June 14, 2011

Published!

It’s always cool to see your work on a newsstand, but picking up a...
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May 20, 2011

Stills Project Cannes-Bound

The Here Between, a short directed by Ilian Iliev, is on its way to...
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April 21, 2011

Proving Ground

Arizona. So far south you can hear the mariachis. We’re at the Komatsu proving...
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April 12, 2011

All-Stills TV Spot

I recently had the pleasure of working again with Director Brian Malone, but this...
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April 12, 2011

Amazing Cakes

Freelance Art Director Dylan Kiszlowski always arranges great shoots. This week, we were shooting...
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March 20, 2011

A Day in the Candy Store

Another great Food Network shoot this week. Adam Gertler, host of Kid in a...
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March 19, 2011

Dig Their Ideas

This week, we were stoked to be a a big part of Blue Onion...
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March 19, 2011

Back to School

Tough to beat a good, solid high-tech industrial shoot. That’s exactly what we had...