Falco columbarius - Merlin

This isn't my typical blog post, but I am an avid birder and love birds of all sorts.  This poor bird often referred to as a "pigeon hawk" was just hit by a car by my house.  He was still warm when I set up a portrait of him to pay homage to him.  So sad when beautiful predators like this one are killed. Here is some more information about merlins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(bird)

Merlins

Chief of Police - Art Acevedo

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Recently I won a bid with the City of Austin to photograph portraits of all the City Mangers, Assistant Department Heads, Police Chief, and Fire Chief.  It was a fairly standard portrait session and it was interesting to meet all these wonderful citizens.  I was taken back by how friendly and candid Police Chief Art Acevedo is, considering the seriousness of his post.  This outtake is worth sharing; one of Austin most serious men, hanging ten.

South Texas College of Law

Here are some featured images from our shoot with South Texas College of Law.  Our liaisons, Sue Cox, David Powell and Cheryl Mc Entire were a pleasure to work with.  They gave me excellent direction and the proof is the pudding! I look forward to working with them again on future projects.

Midway Companies

I had a wonderful time in Houston working on Midway Companies' annual report, in conjunction with Ron Brady and Liz Horner at The Dealey Group in Dallas.  Our biggest challenge was making six different photographs appear as one image during post production. 

Austin City Council

Politics is something that I try to avoid talking about with anyone, anywhere, anytime; especially city politics.   I will say though that the City of Austin has a great bunch council members working with Mayor Lee Leffingwell.  Every one from the City Manger to all six Council Members work together so well. The City of Austin meets at City Hall, 301 W. 2nd Street most Thursdays.  All Council Members are elected by the citizens of Austin for three-year terms.

Austin City Council

Red McCombs School of Business

These photographs are from a series for the University of Texas PhD. candidate brochure.  We had a great time working with Rick Kendrick and Marsha Miller to get these portraits produced on time and on budget.  We were all pleased with the images and look forward to working more with the University of Texas.  Hook'em! 

The New World of Islam

It's amazing how wonderful change can be. Every culture in history has undergone it; all you have to do is yearn for it. Religion is beautiful and precious to its beholders, but more beautiful is humanity and the right for all humans to freely believe what they wish, without persecution from others for believing differently.

All religions change. This has been true since their beginnings, when cavemen performed sacred rituals to honor their dead. The influence of religion is perhaps the most overlooked social good man has endured. That social good is currently expanding to the world of Islam.  Organizations like www.reformislam.org are pioneers of change to the Islamic world.  With Islam changing, albeit a slow change, wonderful things will come.

Here are some examples of how we've been able to convey the change that woman of Islamic and Arab descent have been able to achieve in the United States, thanks to our Bill of Rights

Spring 2009 Rigamarole

Working in business environments can be tricky sometimes.  During this session we had very little time to work with the subjects, yet were able to come up with some outstanding photography that illustrates the article beautifully.

Rigamarole Fall 2009

A chat with Noble Energy's Chuck Davidson and David Stoner.  This article, written by Molly Glentzer, beautifully demonstrates Noble Energy's new concepts in exploration.  Everyone there was great to work with, truly awesome people.