another day... another couple of headshots

Beautiful day in Denver.  Perfect for natural light.  Shot a comedian named Rob Gleeson (http://www.robgleeson.com/
very comfortable in front of the camera.  His eyes were pretty light sensitive so we had to move away from the door a bit.

Started the day with a studio shoot for Transwestern Commercial Real Estate (http://denver.transwestern.net/)

She loved having her picture taken... that's always nice. Here's one of those...

These are not retouched at all... just color-corrected and posted.  Really loving the beauty dish that fits on my White Lightnings.  It puts out great light.  I'm using it for a hair light on the natural light shots.

Weekend photos

had fun shooting with author Peter Heller who has just completed a book about surfing.  He learned how to surf while researching this book.  Isn't that great?  He's married to Cindy "KIm" Yan who's a gorgeous actor with Big Fish Talent www.bigfishtalent.com  She's the greatest... we've been shooting together for years. Here's Peter's shot...and then a couple of Cindy Kim.

Ah...

shot this last week... this was her agent's choice. The other two were on Friday. Her name is Katherine and she is fulfilling a life long dream of wanting to model.  I think she certainly photographs well enough  and moved well in front of my camera.

quite a storm

Brought my computer home last night.  Figured we'd be snowed in. We are... kinda.
It's starting to melt already....
I've spent the morning trying to get the big computer to talk to my wireless internet.... no luck!
Frustrating.....

Snow's coming!

I had a shoot scheduled for 2pm today, but since she's coming from Colorado Springs and the forecast is for 10 to 15 inches of snow on Monument Hill... we decided to reschedule... smart!
I've actually done quite a few natural light headshots  while it was snowing and they came out awesome.  But NO-ONE wants to attempt Monument Hill in a snowstorm.
Am having fun hooking up with old high school friends on Facebook and working on a Keynote presentation that I will be posting on here and on You Tube... it's that kind of a day... oh and lots of Photoshop work to catch up on.  Time to hunker down.

new shots

Bjorn and Jennifer Bird are opera singers who have just moved here from Germany.  Glad they found my studio and came in yesterday for their new headshots

Photographed an attorney in the morning.  Here it is:

musings

What a beautiful day.  It was warm and sunny and one of those special "between" spring days in Colorado. It's possible we could have another 10 inches of snow tomorrow.  That's what Spring is like here... you never know.  It's all wonderful though... gives us all something to talk about... or complain about... but it sure is a human connector. 
Had a couple of great shoots today.... a business guy at 8:30 am and then a couple of opera singers after lunch.
I'll publish the pictures in the next post, but for now I just wanted to say that I have so much fun doing what I do.
Dearly Departed is up and running.... come see it!~
Life is great!

Saturday shoots

Had a great couple of shoots on Saturday.  One was "Eddy and the Haskells".  I had played with a couple of these guys, so I knew it would be a good one.  The other was my long time friend Theresa Reid.  Have a look at some of these....

We opened!!

Well, after one of the shortest rehearsal periods in the history of theater (2 weeks) we opened!  There were a few rough spots, but all in all the show is still as funny and fresh as it was last time we did it.  I forgot my camera again, so no pictures...sorry!  You'll just have to come see it.
We've started putting on a little concert with "the Buds" after the show for those who want to stick around.  I think our original concept was to stand outside the theater as the patrons arrive... kind of a pre-show concept, but so far it's been too cold for that.
Yesterday matinee, Dana (Lucille) had a rather crippling migrane headache and couldn't go on, so Laura Lounge (our assistant director) went on with book and kicked ass!!  Good job, Laura!

Tech week

This is is folks!  Tech Week for  Dearly Departed. Pictures of this weeks rehearsals  available tomorrow and days to follow...
whoops too busy remembering to bring mandolin and costumes and forgot my camera.  Will bring tonight.
Last night, we didn't run the show... just the scene changes... still didn't get out of there until 10.
Tonight... dress rehearsal with our first audience.  Should be interesting.  This will be our first time through without stopping.
pictures tomorrow... promise!

another great shoot

Fun shoot!!. Yesterday was one of those fun, super-charged days . I got to shoot a couple of different headshots on Sarah, and then we got to do a studio glam shot and then a location character shot. So I got to try a couple of different things.  Here they are...

So excited!

The webcasts are here.  There are four of them and I'm going to introduce a new one every couple of weeks.  So.... here goes