One of the hardest things about photography, and making art in general, is showing of subjects in a new way. Things have been done, angles have been tried. Yet there is still a new, interesting way to photograph most everything. A new skate launch for Bauer had us trying to show of the skate in a different way than before. I tried just about everything I could in the time alloted, came out with a few shots that to me read well as hockey...
Recently got to do a shoot for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America following young, potential students around a college campus. The students got to ask all those questions that go unanswered in their school, walk around a real campus and hang out with real students who were living the life they would soon be in themselves. For everyone involved, it was a great way to spend a spring day...
I always enjoy the mix of editorial work that comes in along with the advertising and commercial jobs. This tear is from a project shot for a local client here in Minneapolis. It was one of those shoots where you need to make a lot out of very little. So we found an interesting angle and a few surviving plants to frame him in, in the end, it actually came out pretty good.
A recent winner of a Jerome Fellowship for rising artists was throwing pots in Minneapolis the other day. The vision that some of the grant recipients have is really cool to see, an amazing, creative group of people to be around to get your own juices going. There was clay dust in every nook & cranny in the studio, probably not a great place to change a lens...
A couple of shots from a recent shoot for Bauer Hockey. This was a fun shoot with a lot of moving around trying to find interesting ways to tell the story of a championship game. In the end I think we were able to capture the feeling that we were going for.
With new cameras in the bag, I am excited about the potential in upcoming shoots. A lot of clients are asking for video to be captured along with stills these days, a fun and new challenge for those of us used to shooting only stills. This year has been spent learning the new and changing side of photography, and projects that have utilized this capability have turned out really cool thus far. 
