Let's Get Caught Up

I hadn't planned on such a long silence around here, I was lucky enough to get a string of work all right in a row, and it left me a little short on the spare time. So I figured I would fill up a post with a sampling of what has kept me away. It was interesting to me to see this work rolled out in a nice neat column to see how truly random the work flow has been this year.

I shot a project for the very talented stylist Kimmi Jones who works with Cole at the salon Alchemy here in town. We set up shop at the salon on an off day, and did a variety of looks. We actually got some of these shots printed and mounted with some before/after Polaroids I took mounted alongside the finished pieces, so the displays are essentially makeovers. I really like the way they turned out. For any of you buddies that go to Alchemy, they are hanging up in the reception area, and be sure to tell Kimmi congratulations :)

I shot 3,904 images over the course of 3 days for Redken who was in town doing a hair show for Florida salons. It's always interesting to be surrounded by 1,800 hairstylists and salon owners.







Redken threw in a fashion show just for fun one of the nights...




And then I set up shop and shot out some party booth pics. I always make sure I have had a little bit to drink so I loosen up enough to get people to loosen up enough. I mean it's a party, it should look like it was at least a fun time.





And then I jumped on a plane and headed off to Hadley, MA. I absolutely fell in love with this place, and actually had to force myself to stay focused during the shoot, because I kept drifting off in my head fantasizing about coming home, and convincing everyone to move here. It was completely an unexpected reaction, and I am already making plans to bring Cole back for a weekend just so she can see it for herself. Of course it helped that I had such incredible hosts. This ended up being one of my most favorite jobs I have done.





I went to Hadley to make a book trailer for Storey Publishing, (I know a book trailer again, who knew I would get so excited about making book trailers!). Storey is a branch of Artisan books, and they make books about country wisdom, do-it-yourself, gardening, and well-being. And in this case they are releasing a book on a couple of friends who started sewing together and made a book about Improv Sewing. Here are some screen shots from the soon to be released trailer. It was such an easy location to shoot at. I am really excited to get to the final edit of this piece and share it here.





The downside to being busy of course is that I miss my family so much, so there is always the plugging myself back into their lives day. The kids are super hyper at first, and then act a little bitter and weird for a couple hours, like "HEY! You left us. How could you do that?!" Not to mention that my traveling is a big disruption to The Littlest Buddies crucial routine, I fear there is going to be a day as he gets older and more rigid and dependent on his routines, that I am not going to be able to travel for work. Time will tell. The kids were extra amped up this weekend because everyone has been patiently waiting to dig into the Halloween decorations and get the house looking like Halloween town. So we spent the rainy weekend inside making our big Halloween plans. We think the children have decided on robots, despite LB marching around the house proclaiming that he is "Pumpkin Man." As far as the robot thing goes, I will say that two year olds are the perfect height for a good ol fashioned Astro droid, but I don't think we will go that route. This is definitely Cole territory. I will start looking for the perfect boxes.





This week is anniversary week around here. Pacing the Panic Room turns three years old. I have no real plans on how to celebrate that milestone. I just know that I am pretty blown away looking back at how much things have changed in just three years. I am of course the most happy to see the biggest changes in the photography around here, I can't believe how bad some of the stuff I was shooting was. How much I relied on Photoshop to "save" pictures. Ugh. Just terrible behavior. I will most definitely be getting sappy and grateful about all of the encouragement and support that I have received the last three years from the people who read here. Some of which have been reading from the beginning. I can't say thank you enough for the comments and emails that have been sent that have served as sweet kicks in the ass to keep working hard and growing, and motivating me to keep chasing down dreams. It's absolutely a crazy time in America to be trying to figure out how to have a dream life, I am lucky to get the work that I do, and I really truly feel like without the chance to come here and vent, and try things out, and experiment, and be a panicky mess, that i wouldn't have the confidence to keep running after the jobs that I do every day. So thank you.



P.S. While I was mostly absent from this blog for a couple weeks, I managed to stay active on Instagram and blogged those shots on my Tumblr, which I am really enjoying. I love that it has gotten me to shoot the everyday in a much more casual snapshots and glimpses kind of way. I feel like it tells better stories than I do. So I am most definitely fully addicted to the combo of Instagram and Tumblr. If you have not checked it out, it lives HERE

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