Moon

Full moon last Saturday.

Wave

Went to the beach on Sat afternoon.  More of these to come later in the week when I get time.

 

Nick getting torqued.

Blond

Pictures of a model waiting around.  Luis shot at a retarded house in Berlin and we spent lots of time lounging around in the backyard.

Another version below that I'm liking a little more.

Detail

There are many more "behind the scenes" from this shoot that I'll post later this summer.

Carnival

Went to the Carnival last weekend. Nick and I rode in the chair thing that takes you over the whole place. This is what it looked like. (Kind of dropped the ball on this flash exposure. Been using Alan's old Nikon SB28 till mine gets fixed.)

We watched some pig races. This was the crowd.

The small fast pigs..

and the big fat slow pigs.

Some closeup crops..

gross

Bizarre ambient light situation.

Banks

Some random photos of Al skating in Secaucus last weekend.

good times

Dear God, make me a bird...

Nick and I went to visit Al in Jersey last weekend. Took lots of good photos that I haven't worked on yet.

Our mission was to find a fort hidden away in the Meadowlands.

Complexion

Luis shot this girl Olga in Long Island last week

She had the craziest eyes and marbly skin.  This detail shot isn't retouched in any way except overall curves and levels.  God knows how Russia cranks these creatures out.

Oh, and obviously Keiko is good at makeup.

Pool

Luis did a shoot on Long Island last week. I took these photos while waiting on the hair and makeup.

A big man was launching his daughter into the air.

The sun went behind a cloud and I crept to the edge for his next big throw.

Detail

"Goodfellas" and "Far From Heaven" were both filmed there. The yenta factor was sky high. I was subjected to "Hey...take MY picture" requests and awkward encounters all day long.

Nice

I emailed Rachel Hulin over at "Shoot the Blog" and asked if she could look at my stuff. She ended up posting some photos and saying nice things here.

4th of July part IV

Ma with ice cream

It rained hard in Jersey.

Edit

All the photos I like since march this year. Time to edit.

From above

The last batch from Luis' Rockaway shoot a couple of weeks ago.

Detail

I'm liking the density and color of this bottom photo more. Playing around with profiles until its time to re-process and print all these in a couple of weeks.

July 4th part III

Some firework photos from Friday. All exposures were made between .5 and 8 seconds using boulders and a water bottle for my tripod.

It started raining pretty hard and my camera was dripping wet. Managed to find a boulder under a tree to rest it on and take the following 5 photos.

So many cool little details in the smoke.

The walk home was pretty amazing but I was bummed about my flash breaking. It was pouring rain and I shot these two misty jams hand held from under my umbrella.

July 4th part II

The fire marshal in my hometown let me go in front of the fence. This is what the lake looked like during the display.

Crowd detail.

Slingshot

Ma "showin' me how its done"

July 4th part 1

I went home to New Jersey to see the folks and watch some fireworks. Took shitloads of photos that aren't going to be done for a while. This picture below was from the smoky walk back home.

Detail

Pretty steady handed considering I had just dropped, and broken, a $500 dollar flash..

Berlin punks

Luis cast some punk rock guys in Berlin.

Some behind the scenes retardation on an Italian Elle shoot last month.

cherries and lighter

Last month in Berlin

Siren

Loud siren out in Cliffside Park, NJ

Right after sunset on one of the first days of summer.

Tunnel

View from my hotel

Alexanderplatz at sundown.

Overexposed in Berlin

Model waiting to get her picture taken. This was a couple of weeks ago. These Berlin pics are gonna be spotty cause some I can't show till later. Site specific...

Muggy days

It was muggy as shit yesterday. Took these out of the car window on the way to Rockaway.

Al got sequences of me jumping off swings. Here's an outtake.

Afterwards, we went back to Greenpoint and ate some dinner. The taxi stand next door casts out some kick ass light.

New Printer!

Testing..testing..

Broke down and bought an Epson 3800 today! I got so much new shit I want to print. 6 times faster than my old beast and I can make 16x20's now at home.

Nun

Andrea on a Luis shoot at a Bay Ridge motel last week.

Hoodie

Justin in Riis park right before a thunderstorm.

Polaroids

Luis and Wayne looking at Polaroids the other day.

Luis' second to last SX-70 ever

Luis found his SX-70 Polaroid camera today and took this photo of me. The colors straight out of the camera are so good!


The other day he said I was beginning to look like "a saddough muppet."

Street scenes

Gas station on the way to Abu Dhabi

Two shots of Downtown Dubai from a residential neighborhood.

In the above photo you can see the faint outline of the tallest building in the world all the way on the right.

Bizzaroland..

Falcon and Headlights

Some more snaps from the desert

Early morning construction

On the first day we had a 4am call time. Shot from the car on our way to the desert.

Cranes

All these locations were within 5 minutes of each other. Outskirts of Dubai City.

Night swim

Went for a swim after shooting by the pool. Moments earlier there was a call to prayer from that Mosque across the river. Amazing.

The weather in Dubai is incredibly humid making the air super misty. Construction crews work 24/7 and light up the night.

Storm cloud

Shot through the window while driving home from Rockaway last night.

Dubai light tests

Some light tests from Dubai

This was around midnight on the beach in front of our hotel. We wrangled up some floodlights from the gardening crew and lit the sand and water behind. Took us a long time to get it right cause most of the extension cords weren't working and we were all pretty tired.

For the desert shoot a man came with three falcons. When their hoods were removed the birds would take big dumps.. which a few of us found amusing.

Dubai 1

Just started working on all the Dubai pics today. The desert on top was 45 minutes outside the city. Endless sand dunes and camels (there's a small one in the middle of frame). Everyone wore flip flops and had their feet burnt to shit in the trillion degree sand.

California salt mine II

Some more photo's from California in April

Luis checking locations

The water is home to some crazy algae.

We had to wade in on the second day. Your feet would get salty and pants would dry into a rocky shell.

The light at the end of the day was retarded.

California salt mine.

Photo from an Italian Elle shoot a few months back.

Some of the crew.

Detail.

Luis in the Middle East

This photo is pretty shit but its all I have ready. Hotel pool in Abu Dhabi.

Gone for a while

Going to Berlin and Dubai for a couple of weeks so these posts are going to be spotty at best.

This building in Dubai City is the tallest thing man has ever made. They're up to floor 163 and almost finished.

Nylon Guys

Shot designer Yigal Azrouel for Nylon Guys a couple months back. I'm not going to bother posting the tear sheet cause they printed the photo 3 inches tall...bummer..

Here's the one they picked to use.

and the one below is the one I wanted


oh well.

More from last weekend..

Not looking so happy about turning 32 huh Al?..

Went up dirtbag mountain again. Looked at cars driving by below. People waved at us and we saw a snake.

Last light

Hung out at the view by Alan's house last weekend. Perfect temperature and amazing soft light.