TRANSITION…

I’m throwing this one right out in front:  I shot two jobs for Rolling Stone recently and they will run in the next issue, which comes out on the newsstand on Halloween (not the Obama cover, but whatever the newest one is.)  I am stoked.  Those were probably my best shoots I’ve had up to this point in my career–everything seemed to fall into place as the shoots went super smooth.  No to mention that magazine is in my top all time publications to work for, so I’m elated.

The amazing thing to me was getting that phone call.  I had met with Deborah Dragon at Rolling Stone over a year and four months beforehand.  And I’d only had a few, sporadic correspondences since that meeting.   An email promo about 8 months before I got the call was possibly the last thing I’d sent her.  Regardless, she had a couple shoots in LA  for this issue that involved portraits and cars and she thought of me—I’m thinking it was the cars that helped her to think of me.  Whatever it was,  I guess it just turned out to be the right job to try me out on.  I’ll throw up some behind the scenes shots once it’s out.

In other news, I was able to find an editor.  A photo editor at a major magazine, who I’ve known for quite a few years, answered my email saying that she would be in LA the following week and she agreed to help me put together a new editorial book.  We worked it out in trade, which is a good deal for both of us, I’m thinking.  So, for the past month I’ve working out how to incorporate her guidance into my website and into the exact horizontal layout for my portfolio. Things are finally pretty well handled…

Yesterday, I launched my new website (same address) with the help of the folks at aphotofolio, I can’t say enough good things about them.  I also pulled an all nighter last week (well, almost) in preparation for a meeting I had on Wednesday to show my book at a local ad agency.  It was fairly reminiscent of my last trip to New York, where I literally put the last image in my book 30 mins before my plane was set to take off— fortunately I live close to LAX and the cab was waiting outside.  This past week was a similar situation, I finished getting the screws down in the book , which was no easy task, 10 minutes before the meeting, and that was 20 minutes away from my office.  Not to mention, I didn’t even get to look at the book before the meeting and I had put it together on the floor, which is carpeted—-DON’T DO THIS.  Every turn of the page seemed to display some sort of fur ball, hair, or general fuzz—luckily the meeting was with someone I have known socially for a few years, and I was able to explain the great tale of cramming to get this book together in 24 hours.  I don’t plan on doing this type of stuff anymore.  Then again, things just work out that way sometimes.  In the end, the meeting went well, and he offered to contact some reps on my behalf and seemed genuinely impressed with the book, which confirms, once again, that my old website was just not cutting it, because this book is much more in line with my new site.

Things are looking up—that’s my general feeling.

From my new work

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