PRD is something me and my friends used to joke around about all the time. We’d often spend weeks climbing in remote areas in the mountains, seeing no one other then each other for weeks, life seemed to move slower during those times. Much of our July has been spent out of Vegas, we escaped the heat and hustle of the city to work on a couple projects in the mountains of Utah, the pace of life in the mountains is just different and refreshing. Now that we are back to the studio in Vegas PRD has been setting in, not only am I noticing it in myself, but I think our dogs have been getting hit hard by it. At least we have the chance to go through PRD, I’d rather have it then not……
Summer has been flying by, despite the crazy hot weather we’ve been trying to keep our heads on straight when we’re in town baking in the hair dryer heat, ouch. Over the past month or so we’ve been in and out of town working on a couple projects, and when we have been in town we’ve been shooting a bunch of assignment work including covers and some editorial stuff. Anyway the other day I was heading back to the home base in the middle of nowhere when I was stopped dead in my tracks by a sheep drive heading directly at me, pretty cool to see that really cowboys and cowgirls still exist.
The spring and summer have been screaming by, we’ve been doing a fair bit of travel and have been shooting several things locally, including below, some recent work for Bloomberg. We actually shot a couple different properties on the strip and this is one of them.
Also it was nice to see this in my inbox the other day, several months ago we were asked to create some portraits of Andre Agassi in his offices here in Vegas. It’s refreshing to see they are getting put to work…
While back we were lucky enough to meet and photograph Millie Furlong for Grazia Magazine in the UK, Millie is one amazing person with a very interesting past, so our location at McCarren Airport was very fitting…
Couple weeks ago before the sun really starting letting out it’s summer heat we packed up the goodies and headed down to Mohave County to photography Nathan McDaniel for State Tech Mag. Driving along the desert brought back some great memories from the area including driving along the longest stretch of Route 66 and capturing some massive J-Tree’s in the area. Nathan was great to work with and even pointed us in the best direction for some goods eats in the area…
Nothing like running through a field of wild flowers in the middle of no where, been working on several projects out of town. Lots to come…
Sitting at a ubber slow internet connection trying to load hi-res assignment files to a ftp, painfully slow….. This goes along with my previous post of slowing down, basically we have spent the past week in sometimes, and somewhat very remote central Utah. Loving every minute of it until we need a phone line or internet connection, this has been forcing us to take a deep breath and slooooow down and enjoy what has been around us. We see all sort of wildlife everyday, we yanked several trout out of creeks, we been doing some killer mountain biking, please this is work….. Sometimes it feels like I’m dreaming to even call this work, but we are lucky and have been producing some stunning images that we’ll share a bit down the road. Until then it’s good to be sitting at some random slow internet connection, love life…..
Driving up the canyon we could smell the hint of fresh pine and hear the gentle breeze blowing through the aspens, it was a day off. This canyon has always caused me to slow down, roll down the window, and enjoy the drive. Getting closer toward town their were a couple cars on the road all of which propped up their hands as to welcome us home, it’s nice to be welcomed somewhere, anywhere. Glancing down at my phone I noticed I didn’t have a signal, no emails of calls today, it was time to slow down. Later that evening Trish and myself were sitting on the deck nursing a cold one and enjoying the view across the meadow when I said to Trish “wouldn’t it be cool to see a couple deer over there?” Minutes later Trish informed me there were two deer, I could have ran to grab my camera, but I just sat and enjoyed, I was slowing down. The drive, the waves, the beer, the deer, it all reminded me the importance of slowing down every once in-a-while.
More and more we are called out to create dramatic portraits for our clients, one of the most challenging things is finding the perfect spot once we’re on location. Often times we have little time with the subject and it’s our job to be spot on in terms of location, style, and over all vibe to the final image. The other day was much like many others, show up, do a bit of scouting, set up our lighting and run some test shots and pull in our subject and start popping away. Depending on timing every assignment we shoot we always try to kick it up a notch once the shot is in the bag, we look for a second interesting location and quickly move our lighting around and ask our subject to do a couple more shots, often time these are my favorite images of the day. The attached image is from our second location the other day, such a cool spot that head a very mothership feel…… Trish is sitting in for a couple test shots….
For us around the studio summer only brings a couple things to mind, fly fishing and finding a way to get out of the Vegas heat. Over the spring and summer we try make several fly fishing trips and so far this summer we’ve been stuck in Vegas with a crazy shooting schedule, the good news is that will all change in a couple of weeks. Last summer we rented an RV and heading north hitting up several creeks and rivers in the Yellowstone and Great Falls, Montana area, this year we will be focusing on central Utah, in hopes of tracking down some trout infested waters. We have big plans for this summer including several personal projects, so stay tuned…..
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