If you live in SF you may have seen my Kaiser Permanente bus stop ad.

My photos of Kino MacGregor and her article appear in the May 2010 Yoga Magazine. She is a mind (and body) bending yogi as those of you that have already seen my yogasana series. If not check it out at YOGASANA PROJECT
According to Kino in this article “Once you experience first-hand how magical yoga is, resistance becomes futile.” Heed that warning you few remaining yoga resisters!! Click on either image to see it larger.

Portraits of some top athletes!

I had the great experience of shooting Patricia Walden for Yoga Journal’s October 2009 feature on yoga masters of 58 and older who age gracefully. Most people are shocked when I say the woman in this photo is 62 and to meet Patricia in person is just as stunning. Even better is to read that she says her poses are even better- more integrated – on her 40th and 50th birthday than they were on her 20th and 30th. I also took some portraits of her in her shady garden. I’m going to be posting an entire project on yoga on my portfolio in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Here are two tears I shot from stories all about all about restaurants and chefs. For these two stories I shot every step from the field to the kitchen to the table and even the tv studio test kitchen. The first shoot is from the August 02 cover shoot of Chris Kimball for the Boston Globe Magazine. Chris Kimball is extremely successful but somewhat mysterious creator of America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Illustrated publishing empire, a tv show and series of cookbooks. His publications are thriving because they survive on subscriptions from loyal readers rather than advertising. I can’t tell you how many emails I received after the shoot asking if I could divulge the location of Kimball’s fabled farm in Southwestern Vermont. However, much to these avid fans’ disappointment I actually did the shoot at the TV studio surrounded by prep cooks and banks of video lights rather than at his secret New England retreat. Read the whole story here: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/08/02/perfection_inc/

The other two spreads are from the Globe Magazine’s recent food issue which featured farm to table restaurants. The assignment literally had me chasing a piece of spinach from farm to table.  Read the whole article here: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/06/28/the_new_breed_of_boston_restaurant_has_nothing_to_do_with_status_and_everything_to_do_with_whats_growing_in_our_backyard/

I recently photographed Benoit Denizet-Lewis upon the release of his new book,  “America Anonymous, Eight Addicts in Search of a Life” by Simon and Schuster. The book chronicles the lives of eight different addicts, one of whom it turns out is Denizet-Lewis himself, who has struggled with sex addiction. Denizet-Lewis is a NY Times Magazine columnist who is known as a journalist “capable of earning the confidence of reluctant but fascinating people in subcultures rarely accessed by the mainstream media.” (This difficult skill is shared by many of my favorite photographers). One of the subjects of the book, a heroin addict, called him to chat during our photo shoot and Benoit immediately got the hard living patrons of the bar we were shooting in to open up about their own drinking habits. The photos I shot of him were originally commissioned by The Advocate, but also ran as the cover story in Medill Magazine and appeared in DNA Magazine.

The July 2009 POZ Magazine also featured my portrait of long-time HIV/AIDS activist Steve Kallaugher. In 2005 Kallaugher founded, Young Heroes, a non profit organization that feeds, clothes and educates more than 1,000 AIDS orphans in Swaziland.  You can find his organization online at Young Heroes He also is a Shakespearean actor, former creative director at the Wall Street Journal, and all-around great photo subject!

This month’s issue of Cigar Aficionado includes a feature on Luis Tiant, the Red Sox and Yankees pitching legend who now has his own line of Cuban cigars. I shot these portraits at Cigar Masters, where Luis smoked cigar after cigar while I shot. The smoke filled the room and wafted over us and our gear, that won’t be a shoot I’ll forget anytime as my gear bags still smell like El Tiante Cubans.

This is from a portrait I did of Jen Searl for the Boston Globe Magazine. She is incredibly tough, has had kidney and bone marrow transplants and now runs marathons. Read the whole story here:
“Step by Step”

We shot it at the Healing Garden on top of Mass General Hospital in the early morning sunlight. Even though it was still early spring and not much greenery was out yet, that place was a beautiful little haven tucked between giant walls of glass above the city. I’m always thankful for subjects that are willing to get up early, and that morning had particularly lovely silvery light.

This shot from my winter surfing project shot at Hampton Beach New Hampshire was selected as the parting shot in this May’s Outside Magazine. If you haven’t checked it out yet it’s project #2 on my portfolio.

I’m still working on perfecting my shooting overhead technique. There are a lot of people that shoot in a big car friendly studio or set up a big C stand with a boom then shoot lots of frames in that one position. That might work well for a portrait, but for sports, I’m really leaning towards as much maneuverability as possible by just mounting the camera on a really really long monopod which I can swing like a boom above the action. Since sports shoots frequently capture repetitive action that repeats in one line I’m also thinking there are film grip solutions that would work well too…