Published Work
Last week I traveled to Hot Springs, AR to photograph Travis Starr, a bankruptcy attorney with the Honey Law Firm for an article for Arkansas Business.
Travis was wonderful to work with and very open to just about any creative idea I had.
Travis Starr with the Honey Law Firm
The April issue of Little Rock Family features one of Central Arkansas' most familiar faces, former Pulaski County Judge Buddy Villines. You can see a variety of Villines' handiwork just about anywhere in Pulaski County.
One of his more popular ideas is one of Little Rock's most popular outdoor areas: The Big Dam Bridge and Two Rivers Park.
Buddy met with considerable opposition when it came to his ideas for the Big Dam Bridge and the Two Rivers Bridge and Park because the projects seemed too far-fetched and expensive. “People said we can’t do it and that we needed to cut our losses,” Buddy shares. “Leadership is sometimes like that. You have to just decide and do it.”
“The projects have had a remarkable impact. They have changed the culture of the community. All of the pieces impact the family. There are testimonials of people who have said the bridges have changed their lives. In an era of obesity, kids get interested in activity instead of video games. At any given time, you can see family groups and a real cultural mix. That’s why we have the “Family” sculpture by Kevin Kresse out there. It’s the story of what’s going on. A hundred years from now there’ll still be that scene – people teaching kids to ride bikes, people with pets, moms with strollers,” he explains.
As a photographer, I've spent a lot of time at both the Big Dam Bridge and the Two Rivers Bridge and Park. If you haven't been there, take some time this weekend and pay each of them a visit.
We've all had this problem: You place a call from your cell phone, or send a text message, and it doesn't go through.
I recently photographed Jan Collier, AT&T vice president and general manager for Arkansas and Oklahoma to accompany a story in Arkansas Business about how AT&T and Verizon have each have spent tens of millions of dollars building infrastructure in Arkansas to help prevent such problems.
According to the article published from Arkansas Business, two projects completed by AT&T in recent years were aimed at improving coverage for patients and employees at two Little Rock hospitals. AT&T’s wireless network in Arkansas and Oklahoma, said installing such a systems in hospitals can sometimes be challenging, such as when a signal must be distributed down a hall from a central room that contains all the hardware. The company’s engineers sometimes have to get creative, but the signal has to be delivered one way or the other.
After finding out more about the story, I felt photographing Ms. Collier in her office would be pretty boring. So after a few emails, we arranged a photo tour of one of these infrastructure projects at UAMS. In short, we headed into the basement where all this tech stuff is located.
I wanted to keep the portrait clean, simple and easy to read as "tech". I used three lights:
We were in a very small space with low ceilings so I had to keep my lights to a minimal and something that didn't take up too much of a footprint.
