Merrill Lynch Corporate shoot - The Rubin Group

We recently finished a corporate shoot for Merrill Lynch with one of their top investment groups; The Rubin Group.  The project included headshots, desk shots, outdoor portraits and real life client scenarios in conference rooms.  Here are a few samples....

How I got this shot.... Hurricane Earl Palm Beach 2010 Eastern Surfing Magazine Dec 2010

Hurricane Earl was a day late for many in South FL.  We all were driving up and down the coast the day before wasting time, money and confidence in all the reports.  Well the next day luckily Cheyne Cottrell and I got up really early and drove straight to Palm Beach, without checking it anywhere.  Rolled up on an indicator spot and Saw this....

From that point on we both knew it would probably be one of it not the best hurricane swells this season to hit South Florida.  It was a solid 6ft with over head sets.  Because of the current and lack of consistent barrels we figured the best thing to do was to shoot from land.  There was also only Cheyne to shoot.  With only one (pro) surfer in the water its tuff to "lineup" as we would call it.  While Chyene paddled out I set off on a hike to find a good spot to shoot.  I was carrying with me:
Canon 1D Mark 3
Canon 5d Mark 2
Canon 500 L IS lens
70-200 2.8L IS
Tokina 10-17 fisheye
Canon 16-35
Canon 1.4 and 2.0 converters  all in my Lowepro pack.

It was a hot day with hardly any wind so the first thing I did was find a semi shaddy spot with some ability to compose other buildings, trees and or people/objects in the foreground. Hiking down the beach trying to find a shady spot and a place to get a little higher was not easy.  Eventually I met a security guard willing to let me post up on the wall of a mansion.  From there I was able to get all the angles I would like, fill up my water bottle with water from there hose and answer phone call after phone call while I snapped away.  Eventually the swell started to die and after a few hours we decided to leave.  The photo ran in ESM of Andrew Fletcher was shot just as I was about to leave stepping off the wall still with the camera in hand.  Shot with my 500mm lens with 1.4x converter on my Mark 3.  While we hiked back to our parking spot we had already planned our next spot to shoot thanks to all the luxuries of modern technology.  The day continued with me swimming two more times throughout palm beach county and scoring a barrel session to ourselves at one of the best spots in S. Fl.  A good day! 

Red Bull Wake of Fame - Fort Lauderdale, FL

 Event Winner Nico Von Lerchenfeld

 Nick Taylor 50/50 railslide shuvit

 Kevin Henshaw

 Danny Harf

 Danny Harf nose pressing the entire far rail

 Nick Taylor owning it

 Veteran Parks Bonifay hitting the redbull revolving sign

 South Florida's own Steel Laferty sliding the final rail into the dive well pool

 Raphael Spinning off the kicker gap to ledge

Sporting events are usually pretty similar, but whenever Red Bull takes over things usually take an out of the box thought process in building.  They once again didn't let down with a pretty unique wakeboarding and wakeskating event taking place at night at an Olympic training pool complex.  A cable runs the entire length of the pool whipping riders into their runs down to one end and then back. You probably missed it!

A riding quick trip to Utah and Colorado

Last weekend I took a quick trip to Utah and Colorado with my good buddy Scott from So Cal.  Here are some shots from an epic little trip!