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Here are some outtakes from a new series that I just started production on.   After we wrapped up the actual shots I wanted for the project, we just kept shooting for a bit and these came out.  Not hard to make cool images with these ingredients.  Thanks to Aaron Ingrao and my dad(who does not have a website).

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Several months ago I saw a quick video on a medical museum being curated by a doctor down in Huntington West Virginia.  I didnt even make it to the end of the video before I knew I had to get down there with a camera.
Even though the good doctor himself was out of town during my visit, I still had a great time in the museum all by myself.  Thanks to Dr. Touma’s staff for basically opening the doors and saying: ‘have at it’.
Here are a few photos from the day, and there are even more up on my freshly minted behance portfolio, which is going to start featuring some of my smaller, stranger projects.

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Sticks!

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I was lucky enough to shoot some photos at Double Aught sawmill in Owego NY last week.  I was not lucky at all to have chosen the day I did.   Low cloud ceiling, torrential amounts of rain and 30 mph winds did not make for a nice shoot.  So… it is what it is.

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I finished up my American Metrics project.  There are a few more staples that deserve their space, but time to move on to new projects.  It’s entirely possible I will revisit this and add more as time allows.

Here is a link.  You’ll find it under the Personal Projects tab.  You should go have a look.

Other than the food geopolitics, the project should be self-explanatory.  There is even a cool infographic  type page at the end with some stats.

This was a ton of fun to do and thanks to everyone that helped out or sat in front of the camera.  Special shout out to Amber Rampino for design work.

That’s it.  Hope you enjoy.

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Sometimes an idea for a shot will pop into my head and be fully realized.  Lighting, model, wardrobe, location…the whole thing just floating there in my head.  And sometimes you set that shot up and it goes in a completely different direction.  Like this one.
The shot that I imagined was a high key, brightly lit image.  But after setting up the fluorescent tubes behind Jerry, I realized that wasn’t going to work.  Rim light from the tubes and the large amount of white space in the shot killed the high key impact.  So I set up a boom with an overhead light and dropped everything down about 5 stops.
Instant mood change!
Im more than happy with the final outcome and big thanks to Jerry Seawood for coming by the studio and having electrodes glued to his head.

Here are some outtakes…

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Here are a few images from a quick shoot at the studio yesterday.  I’ve had this loupe forever now and never really examined it until it went onto Deans face.  And that’s when I noticed the Bausch and Lomb tag on the side.  Why do I have a loupe, you ask?
Because I can.

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I had the pleasure of documenting the construction of a small medical campus in 2011.  It took just about a year for the site to go from an empty, snow covered field to a fully functioning building with state of the art technology buzzing from every corner.  Today I walked around one of the suites, shooting the finished product and was amazed at how different the space felt with all the equipment moved in.
Here is an image from today.

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I can not seem to get past my obsession with how we interact with food in ‘this modern age’.  Most people have a strangely abstracted view of the stuff they buy at the grocery stores, but sometimes its just not abstracted enough.  Projects like H2Grow are using waste heat from landfills to grow tomatoes.  Huge sectors of  industrial farming are now gene patented to boost yield and protect corporate interests.
Strange days…

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I had a good year.  I was lucky enough to travel to several countries, speak awful spanish to strangers, take great images for great clients, and ride a bicycle through the redwoods.  All this has led to a best of list…
I know, I know.  Who isn’t doing a best of 2011 list?

Not me.  Here are my favorite 15 images from 2011 in a strictly chronological order:

#15- Tikal Guatamala
Getting up at 4am and taking a sketchy bus was absolutely worth it.  I got there way ahead of just about anybody else and was able to sit and wait for the sun to come up.  The birds were a super awesome lucky accident.

#14- Sambo Creek, Honduras
This day could not have worked out any better than it did.  A chance encounter with people in the know put Sarah and I at this secluded creek that was actually geothermally heated run-off from the active volcano nearby.  The steam from the hot water was softening the light streaming in and I knew it was a great shot.

#13 Lago Atitlan, Guatamala
A quick boat ride from the island city of Flores over to this side of the lake ended up being a pleasant walk and an even more pleasant 2 hour nap in a treehouse mirador(lookout).  These boats rode really low in the water and I thought it would be cool to get a low wide angle with a dragged shutter.  And it was.

#12 Bidwell Park, Buffalo
This is Elizabeth.  She is cute.  That is all.

#11 Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
If you’re driving through the salt flats, you better be getting out of your car and walking out into the salt flats.  Or else…

#10 Avenue of the Giants, California
An epic bike ride from Portland down to San Francisco led us through the redwoods for 4 days.  This 32 mile section was off the main road and during the early morning and late afternoon the traffic stopped entirely.  Riding down a silent sun dappled road through the redwoods was one of the highlights of my 35 years on this earth.

#9 Golden Gate State Park, California
ROCK!

#8 Jasper National Park,  Alberta
After drifting around the US pacific northwest we decided to take the long (and insanely beautiful) way home.  British Columbia and western Alberta are what the American west looked like 50 years ago.  Maybe even prettier…

#7 Ellicottville Rodeo, Ellicottville(duh)
A fun morning pushing the shutter for nobody but myself.  I loved the color play of the lasso, his shirt and the braids on the horse.

#6 Sanborn, New York
Here is an entryway that was still under construction (see the cones and signs outside?) I really loved the light coming through the windows and mixing with the artificial light.

#5 South Dayton, New York
Sometimes I take my Great Dane on day-job road trips with me.  We always find some field to run in together.  And sometimes the field has a ton of clover bees like this one did.  This was shot late afternoon right at the end of summer.  Love you Ruthy!

#4  A random field, Western New York
Up for an aerial shoot in late fall, the brown patterns on the ground were really grabbing me.  The low light was creating all this crazy contrast on any tiny elevation change below, and the muted colors just made it work.

#3  Victory Studios, Buffalo
This is an (almost) finished shot from a project that I started in October and wrapped up just a few weeks ago.  The project is called American Metrics.  And its about… well, food metrics per capita.

#2 Delaware Park, Buffalo
I love this shot.  This was a cross bike race and it was plenty bright enough to shoot straight.  I wasn’t on anyone elses dime that day and decided to shoot weird.  I ended up shooting a bunch of these with the shutter closed down to f22, and sometimes zoom racking on the foliage.  Did I mention this was fun…?

#1 Salamanca Antique Mall, Salamanca
Yes!  The radios ended up at #1 even though this was a purely calendar based list.
Since these radios were just the latest blog post I will not say any more about them.  Except that they’re awesome.

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Sometimes it’s just the lines, the colors, and someone else’s design ethics…
While walking through the Salamanca Antique Mall last week I was absolutely smitten when I saw these radios.  I knew that I had to come back with some lighting and several hours to hold down the shutter.
I did, and I was eventually told to leave after ninja rigging a mini macro studio at the radio booth.  But I managed to grab these shots.
Enjoy!

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“All matter emits electromagnetic radiation when it has a temperature above absolute zero. The radiation represents a conversion of a body’s thermal energy into electromagnetic energy, and is therefore called thermal radiation. It is a spontaneous process of radiative distribution of entropy.”

These shots were a result of me finding a blowtorch in my garage and proceeding to heat up various pieces of metal until they started glowing.  Not only was this highly entertaining, but I thought it might make for interesting images.  After all, photography is about capturing light, and this little experiment is capturing light emitting from an object that has no real business emitting light (see above).

Big thanks to ICP and that song about magnets and how they work.  (not really)

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