Recent Work

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...

May 12, 2022
In-House Stock
This month, I had the pleasure of shooting a pretty chunky in-house stock library...

March 10, 2022
Cold, Dark Day
Environmental office portraits are always both a challenge and a lot of fun, and...

February 16, 2022
New Digs
One of my law firm clients recently moved from a low-slung DTC office, to,...

January 12, 2022
The Suite Life
My wonderful client, Sentral, who design and build the hippest of apartment communities, asked...

December 17, 2021
The Union Next Door
This month’s shoot with Bighorn Co. was real blast. The goal was to make...

November 17, 2021
Lifestyle for Uplight
Production stills are generally a great experience, especially when you know the crew well,...

October 15, 2021
The Candidate
My friend and colleague, newly-minted attorney Johnnie Nguyen, is running for office. He’s going...

September 19, 2021
Ringing the Bell
“That sounds so cool!” I said to the events coordinator at Jackson, my Financial...

August 15, 2021
Annual Report – Midwest Edition
Last month saw another challenging but fun multi-day shoot for Black Hills Energy. Their...

July 15, 2021
Case Study: New Business Portraits
I hope this is obvious. Here’s the website of a client who just redid...

June 16, 2021
Workin’ in a Gold Mine
This month saw a challenging and endlessly interesting shoot. The Black Hills of South...

May 7, 2021
Flexibility is Key
Let’s talk business portraits, AKA headshots. Last month, I had the pleasure of doing...

April 15, 2021
Editorial on a Big Day
March 5 with the first day of vaccine availability for agricultural workers, and JBS...

March 3, 2021
Windy City
Annual report assignments are routinely the best. Small or no crew, but willing and...

February 11, 2021
Joey for Forum Financial
The only good part of working during a pandemic is facing interesting challenges. I...

January 18, 2021
Do You See What I See?
Why, why, WHY do we sometimes see different things on our monitors? Occasionally I...

December 10, 2020
Magazine Work
The Construction Blue Book is a regional (a dozen or so states) professional contractor’s...

November 12, 2020
Komatsu Gives Back
It’s always nice to see your work A. Blown up huge and B. Used...

October 26, 2020
It’s Been A Year
Being a client of one of the region’s great political strategists gets exciting for...

September 12, 2020
Is Your Photographer Insured?
You make sure the gardener, cable guy, plumber, and roofer are insured, right? Often...

August 13, 2020
Social Distancing with H&R Block
This month’s shoot was super interesting. This year, tax filing deadlines were extended into...

July 15, 2020
Outdoor Business Portraits
Well, this has been an interesting year. And the business portrait train did not...

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....

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

April 10, 2020
Elevated Event Photography
A few weeks ago, I was asked by Mile High Stadium to cover one...

March 15, 2020
Perfect Practice III
This week, I had the pleasure of working with the hippest doctor’s office I’ve...

February 15, 2020
Dartmouth Medicine
This month, I had the pleasure of photographing one of the pillars of the...

January 26, 2020
Sled Dogs for Goodyear
Every so often, you end up on a really wild shoot. This one was...

December 15, 2019
Von’s Vision
The great Bronco Von Miller stopped by 34 Left studios the other day, to...

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

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

September 26, 2019
Half Times
Always a pleasure to get out on location and put something together. This week’s...

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...

July 11, 2019
LinkedIn: The Round Crop
Traditionally, business portraits are cropped so that the eyes or bridge of the nose...

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...

May 28, 2019
Black Hills Annual Report
Black Hills Energy, an electric and gas utility, is headquartered in Rapid City, South...

April 8, 2019
Wide-angle Portraits
One of my favorite clients, the National Institute of Standards and Technology up in...

March 6, 2019
Back on the Road
Meet Scott. Scott’s a bicycling nut, and rides daily to his software engineering job....

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

January 14, 2019
On-site Printing…
…Is not for sissies. Last month, assistant Josh and I made on-site prints for...

December 5, 2018
Adams County Schools CAN
Everybody knows Colorado’s Adams County is known for its excellent school system. What they...

November 20, 2018
Perfect Practice II
Dr. Smith is a brilliant surgeon. He can fix up your hands chin, eyes,...

October 8, 2018
Golf Tournament: Mother of All Events
Anyone who calls themselves a “corporate photographer” is accustomed to shooting events of all...

September 14, 2018
Recruitment Campaign
One of my favorite clients, SCL Health, has a department solely dedicated to attracting...

July 11, 2018
Cover Me
Photographing an inside story for a magazine is always great, but getting to shoot...

June 19, 2018
Comedy Special
Last month, I was asked to shoot stills for a stand-up comedy special featuring...

May 9, 2018
Editorial: Tiny House, Tiny Baby
Recently I had the privilege of photographing Jen, Michael, and Scout for Good Health...

April 17, 2018
QuickPost: Your LinkedIn Photo
Not everybody’s LinkedIn picture is terrible, but many, many are. I’m assuming yours is...

February 8, 2018
Case Studies: Matching Another Style
One of the interesting things about our business is that often we’re asked not...

January 17, 2018
Physician Profile
Every so often, one of your colleagues will need what we call a profile...

November 15, 2017
Location Headshots
Sometimes clients are concerned that a location shoot, one that involves a background instead...

September 14, 2017
Stock Shoot!
Neoscape of New York City is a very interesting client. When a developer or...

August 7, 2017
Paralympian’s Challenge
What an amazing assignment. Arrow Electronics has teamed up with the National Sports Center...

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...

March 3, 2017
Komatsu America
For the last several months, I’ve been on the road for Komatsu. They’re gearing...

February 15, 2017
Pet Therapy!
One of my big clients, SCL Health, usually keeps me busy with business portraits,...

January 11, 2017
Conference Photography
Big sales conferences are always a great way to spend a couple days. Clients...

December 8, 2016
The Perfect Practice
A referral from a colleague, an energized, creative client, and a Saturday to ourselves:...

November 9, 2016
Standards
Another amazing awards season up at NIST (National Institute for Standards and Technology) has...

October 5, 2016
Wish You Were Here II
The folks at Crosspoint had created another poignant ad campaign. All they needed was...

September 14, 2016
Adams 12 CAN For Kids
This past fall, the Adams 12 School District sought a little help with a...

August 23, 2016
How Do I Save My Pictures?
Good question. Our new system is cool and fast, but those little CDs that...

August 17, 2016
New: Instant Digital Delivery
I made it my mission this summer to get my photo files delivered in...

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

July 11, 2016
Web Redesign: Blackeagle Energy
Always great to kick off a big project in the middle of summer: Clear...

June 14, 2016
Rain Barrels and Gov. Hick
This month, I had the pleasure of photographing an official bill-signing at the Governor’s...

April 13, 2016
Architects on Location
This month, I was happy to hear from Ware Malcomb, a great California architectural...

January 20, 2016
Sunny Shores
Attending and documenting conferences is something that happens pretty regularly around here. Considering hiring...

November 11, 2015
360º QTVR
What’s 360º QTVR? QuickTime Virtual Reality, in a full circle. And if you’re on...

October 8, 2015
Turn to Dust
What a campaign! My clients at Network Affiliates wanted to emphasize the pain felt...

August 27, 2015
Controversy
This month, I was tasked by the official American Bar Association magazine, ABA Journal,...

August 4, 2015
CU Health Web Overhaul
This month, I had the pleasure of working with Taylor Carpenter of Carpenter Design...

July 3, 2015
Behind The Scenes: How it works
This month, I was asked by Western Union to photograph not only a couple...

April 20, 2015
10-Foot Prints
You heard that right. My biggest client, SCL Health in Denver, had a birthday...

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.

February 23, 2015
Lindsey Vonn for the IOC
The 2015 World Downhill Championships were held in Vail this year, and what an...

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

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

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

September 21, 2014
This Year in Business Portraits
Interesting new developments in location business portraits were afoot in 2014. Early in the...

August 21, 2014
Inspiration at Indy
I’m sure you can tell from my personal vehicle what a total gear-head I...

July 7, 2014
The Location Headshot
A client told me the other day that another photographer who was...

June 10, 2014
Business Portraits 101
Do you need a business portrait? Everyone says you do, but why? “How you...

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

April 20, 2014
Colorado Correctional Industries
Colorado Correctional Industries is one of those things you never knew you didn’t know...

March 23, 2014
Inside the Monastery
Well, it’s happened again. I was invited to photograph another remarkable set designed by...

February 16, 2014
Location Challenges
Location photography is a great challenge. Add in humans, non-professional talent, kids, and (gasp!)...

January 23, 2014
More Grist for NIST
Boulder’s crown jewels is the little-known National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST,...

December 5, 2013
All About Retouching
Many of my clients see me for business portraits. Headshots, we like to call them....

November 15, 2013
Legal Directory
“I don’t want to be photographed just standing there in the hallway,” attorney Bill...

October 28, 2013
Katy Perry Rocks Lakewood High
Oh, come on. You were kind of excited to hear that the talented kids...

August 9, 2013
Enough Confetti, Already!
For the 140th Anniversary of St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Exempla Healthcare wanted to make...

July 24, 2013
HDR For Architecture
What the heck is HDR and why do you care? If you require architectural...

June 15, 2013
SourceGas Campaign
Have I mentioned the “People on Location” thing?Well, the good folks at SourceGas took...

March 26, 2013
An UpLifting Day
Colorado UpLift, funded by some of Colorado’s most successful businesspeople, is a program pairing...

February 19, 2013
Since You Asked – Before and After
It’s not every day we get to dig into what your competitors are doing....

February 15, 2013
Your Office as Studio
I’m often asked what’s the best space in an office for a corporate photo...

February 2, 2013
Got Insurance?
Yes, that is one question you want to ask to your gardner, your mover, even your...

November 3, 2012
Chez Elway II
File under: Celebrity Architectural Photography Some months ago, I had the pleasure of photographing...

September 17, 2012
Good Will
This month saw an assignment both challenging and gratifying. I was asked to shoot...

August 19, 2012
Big, Bigger, Biggest
MineExpo in Las Vegas sees the biggest vehicles in the world…All in one place....

July 11, 2012
Ahead in the Polls
Every fourth year brings a slew of political calls to the studio, few of...

June 16, 2012
Special Delivery
I had the pleasure this week, as part of a cross-promotion with a corporate...

April 9, 2012
Shattered
Crosspoint Productions and Art Director Dylan Kiszlowski produce TV and radio commercials and edit them...

March 21, 2012
Rock On
One of my healthcare clients is sponsoring a big, high-profile outdoor concert series at a...

March 5, 2012
Stealth
The Exempla Healthcare system has always been a great client. Their needs range from...

February 19, 2012
The Latest on Location
Winter in Greeley. The joke was: We have to wait for a clear day...

November 18, 2011
First for Women
First for Women magazine (circulation 1.6 million), a great client, scheduled another shoot to...

November 15, 2011
Red Chair
For the National Center for Women & Information Technology October summit, I was tasked...

November 4, 2011
Kind Words
Sometimes, a great shoot followed by a kind word just makes your week. From...

October 25, 2011
Triggers
This week was cool. I was shooting stills for the History Channel’s new show,...

October 4, 2011
Chez Elway
Is it Architecture? Is it Product? It’s Archi-Product! This month, I got to step...

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
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August 14, 2011
Miles Smiles
Love that Miles. Every so often, the phone rings with not only a shoot,...

July 27, 2011
The Starz Circus
The circus was on everyone’s mind this month as Starz rolled into LSI Studio...

June 30, 2011
Work is Hell
Edward Weston said, “Photography…to the professional is work, and hard work too, no matter...

June 20, 2011
Cold Spring
Spring has been weird everywhere, and Colorado has been no exception. But First for...

May 20, 2011
Stills Project Cannes-Bound
The Here Between, a short directed by Ilian Iliev, is on its way to...

April 21, 2011
Proving Ground
Arizona. So far south you can hear the mariachis. We’re at the Komatsu proving...

April 12, 2011
All-Stills TV Spot
I recently had the pleasure of working again with Director Brian Malone, but this...

April 12, 2011
Amazing Cakes
Freelance Art Director Dylan Kiszlowski always arranges great shoots. This week, we were shooting...

March 20, 2011
A Day in the Candy Store
Another great Food Network shoot this week. Adam Gertler, host of Kid in a...

March 19, 2011
Back to School
Tough to beat a good, solid high-tech industrial shoot. That’s exactly what we had...