Similar to the image I posted last week (although this one was shot first).  I’ve been throwing people up against the wall in my studio lately.  Simple enough.  I like the look of it.  I’ll probably be doing more.

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Here are a few shots I liked from today’s shoot.  I’d love to have hair like this… even for just a day.  Tomorrow I’m up early to shoot for Psychology Today.

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Screen grabs from the online version of Viv Magazine.  I did the editorial shoot for them a couple months ago at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and the San Carlos Airport.  At the airport I was offered to hold up all take offs and landing traffic if we wanted to shoot on the runway.  Being someone who hates flying, I didn’t want to potentially hold anyone up from a safe landing, so I opted to shoot somewhere other than the runway.

The article starts on page 156 and pointless blathering by me in the “contributor bio” on page 12.  Hair & Makeup by Meaganne McCandess.

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I’m in the process of a good sized website update.  It’ll be a mix of newer work and work I’ve done over the last year that I’ve been a bit too lazy… I mean, far too busy… to get prepped for the website.  I’m also in the process of doing a minor website re-design.  I posted a while back that I wanted to completely redesign my website… but that hasn’t happened yet due to indecisiveness on how I want the new site to look.  After all, it’s not like I want to redesign my site every few months, so I better be happy with it.  So, for the short term I’m upgrading my Livebooks site in order to add larger images and along with that I’ll make some minor changes to the look.

I will say, I think Livebooks maximum vertical pixel count of 562 (up from 500 for my current/old design) to be too small for my liking.  This is one of the reason I want a complete site redesign, so I can have larger images.  If you shoot a lot of 35mm aspect ratio horizontal images, the Livebooks image size works well.  But since most of my work is vertical, I don’t get the larger images.

The Livebooks upgrade should go into effect over the next 24-48 hours, so check back then.  I should have my existing images resized by then along with some new images.

The shot above will be one of the new additions to my website.  Its a shot I took of my friend Kellie a couple weeks ago.

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I was talking about my lack of blogging over diner with a friend the other day. She only recently has taken the time to read some of my writing and said she thought it was funny. I think she was just being kind. I thanked her in my typical uncomfortable with compliments kind of way. I stated the obvious and mentioned that I hadn’t really been blogging much lately, to which she asked why. I didn’t really know how to answer. I mean, I’ve actually been fairly busy with some interesting projects and there’s no reason I shouldn’t be writing about them and other things I’ve been working on lately.

One problem is, I usually think of how to write about something at the strangest or most inopportune of times. By the time I’m in a place where I can get my thoughts down, they’ve already left me. Even with this post I was lying in bed just about to fall asleep when I started thinking about what I should write. My initial thought was to wait until morning but I knew if I did I wouldn’t remember anything I was thinking. So, despite my quickly approaching sleep, I sat up, grabbed the laptop and started typing away…. and I know what you’re thinking… I should have just gone to bed.

I could take a que from other bloggers out there. Take Thomas Broening for example… he always has something to say… sometimes even two or three times a day. I know Thomas and I’m sure he knows I respect his work and blog so I think he’ll understand when I say this: His posts are a mixed bag from the long and fascinating to brief and interesting to the lengthy and mind numbing to the quick and useless. The posts mix his personal life, at times with no photographic content, to his professional musings.

Should I do the same? I’ve always thought that I couldn’t imaging anyone being remotely interested in what I had to say if it didn’t have something to do with photography (and even when it does, only slightly). Do I start talking about my personal life here? Do you want to know who I’m dating? With the exception of my mom, I seriously doubt it (I’ll fill you in later Mom). While my personal life is often the source of great amusement for some of my close friends, I doubt it has broad appeal. So, I think for now I’ll stick to the photography related posts (or blog writing related posts)… but who knows, if I get desperate again maybe I’ll let you know my plans for Saturday night.

Like I said, I’ve had some interesting projects over the last month or two… so I’m going to do my best to get back into the swing of things with this blog. But, that will have to wait for another day… I want to get to sleep now.

Oh, and if you’re wondering why there’s a picture of a bus at the beginning this post… This last weekend I finally came across one of the many busses driving around San Francisco with a recent campaign I shot for SPM Advertising for Brown & Toland.

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I can’t believe its been over a whole year since my last blog entry. Well, time flies as they say. So, I think its time to start up the blog again. Like anything in life you just need to get into a habit and that is what I need to do to get back into the blogging mode (not that I was ever heavy into the blogging in the past). So, for my first entry in over a year I keep it short and simple. That way I can work my way back into blogging and have something to write about on those days where thoughts aren’t flooding in. The shot I’m posting today is from a recent personal shoot I did. I loved the retro look of the subject’s dress. So the makeup artist (Veronica Sjoen) gave Tina a look to go with the dress… trust me, if you saw the other looks we did you wouldn’t think it was the same person. I love the calmness on her face… which again, if you saw the other pictures you wouldn’t think it was the same person. Anyway, that is all for today, check back and I promise it won’t be a year before my next entry.

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Anna was thrilled to see herself on my blog. And now, I’m sure she will be even more happy to see that she is here twice while her sister Sara is only her once.

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So, I received a call from Anna’s Aunt. Apparently she was distraught at the fact that her sister Sara made my website and blog and she didn’t. So, without further ado, here is the Beautiful Anna.

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