Shot this for a psychology magazine – article on he stresses of being a farmers wife. Really great morning light – great location up near Hitterdahl, MN. Really enjoy the process of saying something with visual tools, interpreting a clients target message to a simple image.

Looking at the bodies of work I've created throughout my career, i see that I go through many long periods of personal projects, quite often overlapping, and quite often I'm not really aware that I'm doing it. Here are a few from a long series of still lifes - I guess you could call them Urban Asphalt Works...

A client of mine had a ground breaking last week – not my favorite type of thing to shoot. Due to cool morning weather, they had the speeches before hand in a diesel shop – the new building will be a diesel shop expansion. I was able to get in ahead and add some strobe light – mostly for those exciting shots of a guy at a podium. However, the wide shots ended up being the most interesting – even the one where we are shooting straight into a 1000 watts-second strobe!

More images from the big bean shoot with Shannon a few weeks ago. Fun to build continuity and creativity together.

Nice to see the Simplot site up – great work by the good folks at Sundog in Fargo and 29 Stories in Denver. One of the neatest projects I've ever shot.

http://www.simplot.com

Driving west towards Bismarck, ND in the early morning. Of course I was running a bit late. Saw the beautiful light on this old farm house. Quick pulled over, ran through a wet ditch and shot this. It's interesting to me how similar – yet how different the images feel with the added elements of the fence in one, the stubble in the other.

On location in Park Rapids. Minnesota at a place where they create hand-made whiskey barrels. At this stage in production, a red-hot iron is jammed into the bung hole (really) to finish the process of creating an interior that is burned – making that smoke flavor. Really enjoy lighting these type of scenes – a strong backlight burning out the smoke and a directional light to the right adding shape to the fellows face.