Here’s a time lapse video of a circus training photo shoot that I wrote about in my article “Photo Shoot Go Boom?”

Music By Anomie Enemy.
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A few months ago I was contacted by a rep from a circus training facility here in Los Angeles. They wanted some simple, but dynamically lit training photographs. Fun, right? Totally. But…

The Idea:
“Flood” takes advantage of the technique that I mentioned in last week’s article about Creative Cropping only I cropped on the spot by how I framed the image in the first place. I noticed one day on a stroll that if you looked at this really cool looking tree/vine and cropped out the sidewalk […]

The Idea:
“Preparing to Fly” is an attempt to capture a moment lost in time. The character is introspective. He is dressed for flight. He is confident, but nervous. The flight will be dangerous, but freeing. Behind him is a block wall and he must move forward into the unknown.

The Idea:
“Laundry Day” is one of my favorite images from 2007. Maybe my favorite-est. For me it’s one of those images that are difficult to get out of your head. I hope it’s that way for others as well. This week I don’t really want to say too much about my idea behind the image […]

Happy Independence Day everybody!
Enjoy the food and fireworks. Try not to get burned!

The Idea:
“Ellis Island In the Desert” was shot while I was on a short trip to Las Vegas. During the day I’d noticed this walkway with its tall, curved fence and the “Statue of Liberty” in the background. The walkway was packed with people. Maybe everyone thinks it when they see this, maybe no one, […]

The Idea:
I know what you’re thinking, “Not another picture of some shirtless guy with a newspaper Christmas light hat. Didn’t Horst already milk that cow to death? Just a joke. Everybody calm down.

The Idea:
Last year while in Seattle, I went for a walk with a camera, tripod, flash, and off camera flash trigger. The goal was to make a photograph that would capture Seattle as a feeling rather than just a location. Everyone has different feelings about different places, but pictures of famous cities seem to have […]

The Idea:
Another from my series of images inspired by the feature film look, Ready Wet Fire was the result of a challenge I gave myself to strip down the elements and still maintain an inference of a story. I wanted to have very little in the way of background to help me tell the story. […]