Looking back at the UFL’s first season
As teams prepare to start training camp preparing for the second season of the United Football League, I figured I put together a few of my favorite images from the premiere season of the league. I started shooting the UFL at the first league meetings in April 2009, then as things started rolling the first [...]
A summer of portraits
It’s been a fairly busy summer for me. So I’m going to combine a few posts to get caught up. As you may know, I do a lot of portraits for various clients. When I started out in the business some 20 years ago, portraits were the furthest thing from my mind I wanted action, [...]
Promo Team shoot
Three years ago, I was contacted by the Duramed Futures Tour to do the photography for their newly formed Player Promo Team. I had worked with the Tour before, shooting action photos of their players so the Tour would have stock images. Each year, we spend 2 days shooting set up of each of the [...]
A doctor with an opinion
It’s been a busy few months so I have relaxed a bit on posting to the blog. Yesterday a little national news happened on my doorstep — or at least about 10 miles away. Seems a Doctor in Mount Dora, Florida doesn’t agree with the newly signed Health Care Bill and posted his displeasure on [...]
Who Dat . . .
WHO DAT? I’m still not sure what the heck it means, but it is still ringing in my ears after the Saints downed the Colts 31-17 to win the franchises first Super Bowl. Super Bowl XLIV was played in South Florida and I was assigned to shoot the game for one of my clients. Like [...]
JR from Sueltalo El Show
Occasionally I do shoots for an individual, in this case it was with JR from Sueltalo El Show on ‘El Zol’ 99.1 FM in Washington DC. JR’s wife Jessica Reyes came to my studio for the first time over a year ago and JR came through the first time about this time last year. Both [...]
Tiger cover
My latest ink of Tiger Woods. A portrait I shot of the World’s Number One golfer during a round this past season. The image was shot with a Nikon D3 camera and a Nikon 600mm f:4 lens.
I shoot a lot of portraits for various clients, both editorial and commercial. So when I approached a make-up artist about her casting call to shoot commercial heads shots, I was game. Sunday I headed to the studio to meet with Alexandra Sorgi and two models – Hua Zhang and Jeneka to do the project. [...]
Wet, nasty, awful, great finish.
The headline pretty much sums up the New Year’s Day Capital One Bowl between Penn State and LSU at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. Wet – pouring rain before the game and much of the first quarter. Nasty – see above, plus add some wind. Awful – the field was well . . . LSU [...]
2 Days, 22 hours of sports shooting
For two of the final three days of the decade, I found myself on one of my favorite places to be – the sidelines of a sporting event. For me, shooting sports never gets old – well maybe really hot days lugging gear around a golf tournament or in the rain at any event then [...]
Latest cover
I had the Art Director of Orlando Magazine send me the cover of the January issue and I am pretty pumped the way it turned out. The frame is from a shoot I did with the Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard, Krissy Todd of the Hope Foundation and Zach Wilson, who started the Central Florida Animal [...]
Colts keep rolling
Late in the season, the NFL switches things up a bit with it’s playing days. SO Thursday found me in Jacksonville for the Colts-Jaguars game. The game was maybe one of the best I have shot or seen all season. Peyton Manning helped the Colts improve to 14-0, throwing for 308 yards and four touchdowns, [...]
People Dec 22, 2009
One of my Elin Woods images was used as a spread in the Dec. 22, 2009 issue of People magazine as the main photo to the magazine’s story on Elin as the Tiger Woods story continues to unfold.
Pop Warner Super Bowl
Each year, Pop Warner Little Scholars, Inc. hosts the Pop Warner Super Bowl. Sixty four teams compete for national championships in 4 different age/weight ranges – Jr. Pee Wee, Pee Wee, Jr. Midget & Midget – in two divisions. In Division I, a national champion is crowned in all four age/weight ranges. In Division II, [...]
Out of the shadows
Another week, another trip to an NFL stadium. This time back up to Jacksonville to shoot the visiting Houston Texans playing the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jags have become a playoff contender of late, as they improved to 7-5 behind a 23-18 win over the Texans. The Jags seem to be one of the surprises of [...]
Just a stone’s throw
The day before Thanksgiving, I found myself shooting of all things — food. I have said it before, I love photographing food, nothing beats it. Food doesn’t move, or talk back, and never changes poses on a photographer. Stone’s Throw Bistro was founded in 2008 by chef/owner Richard Lendin. It’s a smaller place in downtown [...]
10-0 start
Perfect through 10 games. The New Orleans Saints visited their NFC South rivalTampa Bay Buccaneers Nov. 22. I was excited to be shooting the Saints, a dome team outdoors in good weather and I had my Nikon 600 mm f:4 back, at least the dome team part held up. Mother Nature treated us to clouds [...]
Doctor Season
Well, I just wrapped up what I called “Doctor Season.” It’s my annual ad shoots with various doctors and then editorial shoots with others for one of my clients. Getting into see some doctors can be a challenge, setting up time for a photo shoot can be even more challenging. But after 3 weeks and [...]
Berlin Wall, 20 years later
Nov. 9, 1989 6:53 p.m. “Therefore…um…we have decided today…um…to implement a regulation that allows every citizen of the German Democratic Republic…um…to…um…leave East Germany through any of the border crossings . . . That comes into effect…according to my information . . . immediately, without delay.” – East German Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, who inadverently announced [...]
Tuskers final home game
Friday I headed to St. Petersburg for the final home game of the season for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League. Florida beat the Las Vegas Locomotives 27-24 in what was arguably the best UFL game of the season and with the win, the Tuskers are now 4-0. A little twist this week [...]
Tuskers keep rolling
Week three of the new United Football league and I was back at the Citrus Bowl photographing the visiting California Redwoods taking on the Florida Tuskers. A game which saw Florida continued to dominate the premier season of the UFL with a 34-7 win over California. My assignment for the game was pretty simple – [...]
O-fer . . .
For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, the Buccaneers are 0-6. Tampa Bay is off to its worst start since 1985. The Buccaneers are riding a 10-game losing streak that’s the franchise’s longest since 1977 – when they were in the middle of an NFL-record 26-game skid. Tampa Bay allowed 267 [...]
UFL: The newest game in town
Tuskers quarterback Brooks Bollinger (8) and his team mates say a prayer in the locker room after the Tuskers 35-13 win over the New York Sentinels. Led by quarterback Brooks Bollinger’s four touchdown performance, the Florida Tuskers defeated the New York Sentinels 35-13 before a crowd of 11,000 plus at the Citrus Bowl as the [...]