White Bird Dance rocks my world. I relish each performance and it is exciting to see how the world is brought to Portland via dance through this program series. Yesterday I had the pleasure of walking through the Rose Garden with the founders, Walter Jaffe and Paul King, so that we could create a series of images for their program and promotions.
And yes, Barney was there also, and created quite the frenzy as people greeted him!
Just finished a two-day shoot at Elephant’s Deli, where we shot a “Day In The Life” series of images. Products, displays, customers, chefs, ‘zas baking….we covered it all.
Best of all, I got to sample some of their amazing food!
The Daily Beast included an article about the Man Vs Wild Lifesong Wilderness Adventures and published one of my photos from that 1859 Magazine shoot. I highly recommend attending one of these workshops! Get your groove on while trying to survive with just a piece of flint and one knife. Brutal!
We completed a new Oregon Ballet Theatre ad for our “I Dance” series. This time it’s a boy!
I am very excited about some great news today! While creating the headshots of all ballet dancers who dance at Oregon Ballet Theatre, I kept thinking about a potential ad for them that would enable the general public to get to know the dancers a bit more intimately. I contacted my ad agency friend and told him what I was thinking. He created some quick concepts, we met with the marketing team at OBT, and they liked the ad.
I than contacted the editor at 1859 Magazine, asked about potentially running the ad, and today they told me that they will be the first to run the ad. A full page ad will run in their Winter 2010 issue.
Here is the ad. I would like this campaign to run as a series using all of the dancers’ photos and words. We are also looking at changing the font type to be each dancer’s handwriting instead of text.
I was lucky to be able to photograph all of the Oregon Ballet Theatre dancers this month. There is so much that goes into each performance, and it was an honor to be able to spend a bit of time with each dancer. I very much look forward to this season’s performances! Here are some samples of those images.
