Monthly Archives: April 2012

An Instagram Disney Trip

Last week, I jetted off from St. Louis to Florida to surprise my sister on her birthday.  While there, we, of course, visited the Disney theme parks.  I took this opportunity to download and try out the Instagram application on my iPhone.  I know I’ve said before that I didn’t like photo apps like “hipstamatic” and such, but I thought I would give Instagram a try.  After all, one billion George Washingtons from Facebook can’t be wrong, right?

New Images: At the Bakery

This week’s portfolio update peeks at a series that was in a new-to-me location.  I’ve never shot images in a bakery before, but it’s always fun to take over a new place for some stock shooting.  This one was actually a bit hard, because we were in there during business hours, albeit a quiet time, so that the cases would be full of product.  Who would shop at a bakery with no doughnuts or cookies?  So we took the occasional […]

Another iStock “Hot Shot”

Over the kids’ Spring Break last week, we jetted off to Disney’s Aulani on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  It’s a very nice resort, sort of like the Animal Kingdom Lodge, but more Polynesian.  I may blog about some of the things we did in the upcoming days.  Anyhow, we spent 24 hours traveling back, flying from Honolulu to Seattle to Detroit and finally back to St. Louis.  It was the sudden removal of the pilot for a random urinalysis […]

Portfolio Update: Blue Dude

I have a somewhat popular series of 3d images on iStockphoto.  This series revolves around a faceless male orange guy, in various poses, doing a variety of actions, sometimes with props, sometimes not.  You can see the series here: Orange Guy .  Sometimes, it’s a bit limiting, having to model props and worry about the rendering details.  So I found a way to bring Orange Guy into the real world, with his counterpart, Blue Dude .  This great series has […]

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