February 2010
The Archives
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02.26.10Happy Holidays…now fight!Back in October, I got a call from my friends Geoff Teehan & Jon Lax, Creative Partners of the energetic Toronto agency teehan+lax, asking if I'd be interested in shooting their Holiday card again. Absolutely. Last year we had a lot of fun shooting this little gem: As for 2009, they were hoping to raise the bar. So I got thinking over the top, and what immediately came to mind, for some reason, were Karate Dojo's. Have you seen the size and quantity of Karate trophies at your local Karate Dojo? Biggest trophies, ever. So I thought about putting Geoff & Jon in a ...
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02.17.10New Best Photo Resource: The Photography PostThere's a new photography site on the block, and it's a graceful and welcome addition to the online photo world. The Photography Post will offer "the most current discussions on the state of photography", as well as offering a lot of fresh feeds, scintillating interviews, and some unique buys. One of it's founders, photographer and blogster Rachel Hulin, contacted me a few weeks back asking if I'd like to be a part of their new site launch by participating in their 'Question of the Day' feature. I gladly agreed to it, and got to answering their inaugural question: "What's your standout ...
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02.17.10Update: Agency ArtA quick update on my Agency Art post a few weeks back. The back-lit piece is done, and can be seen below. Many thanks to Stephen Jurisic and his production staff at John St. for all their work on this little project.
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02.04.10Hey, nice crop…It's not often that I crop my work. I like to shoot full frame, and utilize everything that the lens has to offer. I think I could trace this back to some of the printing snobbery I'd run across at my local printers, back when I was starting out. A lot of the big gun shooters would include the rebates in their prints, and editors really ate it up. It was around that time that I really fell for those two little teeth marks in my Hasselblad contact sheets & film, and started noticing full frame appreciation in magazines like ...
