So I got a gig this week, kinda last minute, real quick, real cool. The gig was this, go to the Nike Ambassador’s house Tuesday morning, hop in a Lincoln Towncar complete with a driver, leather seats and bottled water. Ride out to the Broncos training facility and take some photos of Ryan Clady and Tim Tebow receiving their Nike Boom Boxes. Pretty sweet. The Nike BOOM Box contains shoes, gloves, a shirt, belt and a card written for that specific box and college. They are very limited, less than 100 made in total and each one is individually numbered and personalized with the person’s alma matter. What a fun shoot and what a cool gift from Nike.
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Nike Boom Boxes
Monday, November 29th, 2010Times Square, way better proof!
Saturday, November 20th, 2010So since flying to NYC to get some photos of some photos wasn’t really in the cards financially I put the call out to reddit. I have been a redditor for three years (according to my profile, I can’t believe it’s been that long) and was a lurker even before that. Reddit is an amazing online community, people submit stories, photos, comics, for people to review, comment on and vote on.
I’ve seen people request things from other redditors, a couch to sleep on, a restaurant recommendation, relationship advice, so given my limited resources I decided to try it. I posted a call out to r/photography and r/nyc asking if any redditors could go get some video or photos of the billboard and the response was amazing. I had no less than a dozen people offer to help me out. Jclemon was the first to respond to me with photos and marvelously told me he’d have video posted for me soon.
I’m so pumped, thank you all of reddit for being an awesome online community.
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Times Square Proof, really awful proof
Friday, November 19th, 2010So I found a webcam for Times Square. After watching the webcam for about 15 minutes I saw my photos on a billboard. The billboard appears to be on a 5-6 minute loop and it is by the Morgan Stanley corner, 1585 Broadway. The photos aren’t my most artistic shots but they are the fun, wacky, party photos that the client wanted. I’m just excited that my photos are on a billboard in Times Square and I have proof, hopefully better proof to come.
You’ll have to do some photo comparisons, like I said, hopefully I can get an NYC person to go take better photos or video.
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Big FrittsPhoto News
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010So this is actually the second piece of news that I have this week but I still don’t have any proof of the first.
FotoMoto, my printer for all the online prints, has decided to feature my photo from Mallory and Doug’s engagement photo session as their photo of the day. Go to http://www.fotomoto.com/ and check it out for Nov 18th. I have a screenshot cause I don’t know how far they go back.
The second piece of news is that my photos that I took this last weekend for Jose Cuervo have been picked by the marketing company and ad agency to be featured on Facebook.com and on a billboard in Times Square in NYC. I was hoping to keep this news under wraps until the photos ended up on facebook or I had proof of the Times Square billboard but with the FotoMoto news I decided I should just do one bragging post. Hopefully I’ll have actual evidence of the other ones soon.
Whoop whoop!!!
Marguerite – All white background photos
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Marguerite was a referral to me from Ryan Brandle over at http://www.brandledesign.com She needed a headshot with a white background for her site that is currently under development. This one was a new one by me and given that I do nearly all available light photography or single flash (Speedlite) photography I knew this would be a challenge. An exciting challenge though.

Marguerite photoshoot results.
I ended up with a few reflections on the cheeks and on the glasses but the diffusion of the umbrellas went a long way to helping this. If you’d like to read more about getting the shot please continue after the break.
Tanqueray Ten 10 Year Anniversary
Friday, November 5th, 2010I was recently hired to take some shots at the Tanqueray Ten 10-year anniversary party here in Denver. The event was held at Colt and Gray near the Highlands. Mixologist Sean Kenyon hosted the event and brought his specialty to the party serving delicious cocktails to party.
Here are some photos I snapped while there:

Martini Glass on a Colt and Gray Napkin
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Day of the Dead and Halloween
Sunday, October 31st, 2010Happy Day of the Dead and Happy Halloween! To celebrate this year other than going out to the Alice 105.9 party I got to take some photos for a Jose Cuervo party. The event, Subterraneo, took place on Tuesday this last week and was a huge event, place was packed and going crazy (on a Tuesday mind you!). It was held at the Church here in Denver, CO and the place was packed. Skeletons, face painting, good music and DJing, creepy face projections, low riders, 12 foot puppets, oh and free booze for all, absolutely killer.
Some of my favorite photos from the event…

This was the creepy projection and the shadow people on the couch
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Mallory and Doug’s Engagement
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Mallory and Doug came to me wanting some engagement photos done. They had planned on having her uncle take them who was a career photographer but just decided to hang up his gear a few months ago leaving them without a photographer. I was told that they were both un-photogenic and didn’t have more than a handful of photos together without them looking goofy. I don’t believe either one of those statements
Mallory wanted to find somewhere that there was an old small schoolhouse or church. Although there might be some cool decaying structures on the outskirts of town I couldn’t find many resources but I did find out that the oldest operating church in Denver was located right down the street on the DU Campus. The Evans Memorial Chapel was originally built in the late 1800′s in downtown Denver but then disassembled and then reassembled in the 1960′s on the DU Campus. Although we used the church for the beginning of the shoot we found out that there were plenty of beautiful areas within a short walk from the chapel.
I really enjoyed working with Doug and Mallory, we tried some more fun stuff and they were okay with my more hands-off photography. I like to observe and take photos of people just being themselves and I think it worked well. Congratulations to them, they will be getting married soon in Sacramento, best wishes to them both.

Doug and Mallory by a reflecting pool with the sun setting behind them
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42Below Update
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Congratulations to Mark Stoddard and all of Team USA. As it turns out Mark, from the Denver competition, was one of the top finishers in NYC and advanced to the finals held in New Zealand (home of 42Below). Team USA brought home the gold, congratulations to them!
Ron Zacapa Rum – Beaver Creek
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010So one thing about doing photography for work in your freetime is that sometimes you work all day and then you have to go work. It can be tough, especially when you have a 2.5 hour drive to get there, really kills the whole day, luckily I enjoy the work.
So Ron Zacapa, a 23 year old premium rum from Guatemala, had an event up in Beaver Creek. It was an event to celebrate a successful promo / winter season up in the mountains that had many promotions. A lot of people from the resorts and bars around the area were invited to sample some cocktails, have some food and just all around have some fun. They had giveaways, a photo booth and a DJ. All around a fun night for everyone.
I luckily carved out a space at the bus station in the kitchen to store my equipment, I carried with me my 5D2, 24-702.8, 70-200 2.8 , 50 1.4, and my 580EXII. Happy that at any given time I just had to have the camera with the lens and the flash. I also carried my flash bracket with me but when I was setting up my TTL cable broke, the part of the cable that mounts into the bracket was on a swivel, no good I the flash can rotate in any direction it wants to. I had to skip it as a result and am now in the market for a new TTL cable.

Zacapa in a glass illuminated from below
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