if you don’t count the intro, I suppose. I ran a marathon on January 10th with an HD video camera in tow:
I finished 1979th in a field of 16,906 finishers – 3:58:06. The video is compressed 9000% and the sound was made with Garage Band…
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Smokehouse Pig, St Louis, Missouri
an iphone picture, in front of Annie Gunn’s, a smokehouse dining extravaganza in St Louis, Missouri. Check out the menu when you have a chance: Grilled North American Elk Ribeye (10 oz.) with a Roasted Ribier Black Grape “Minus-8″ Glaze and White Truffle Hand Cut Fries. Wow. Nearby Creve Coeur Missouri is home to Monsanto, topic of a Forbes assignment in late December – their 2009 Company of the Year. CEO Hugh Grant has an excellent Scottish accent.
January 18, 2010
The corn was brought in, still cold from harvest, by the farmer who grew it. Early the next morning we headed to a series of R&D greenhouses where, we were told, nothing we saw was grown from a seed.
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I worked on a feature for Time magazine about diversity in church communities, and finally, in early January, it published. My focus was on the flock of a Barrington, Illinois mega-church and its pastor, Bill Hybels (who looks a little warm for January):
Pastor Bill Hybels
Although the assignment had a location portraiture component, it also involved photography during a service, with time and lighting caveats (little time, no lighting):
… and did result in a teeny portion of the cover:
Time - January 10, 2010
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http://www.brandingirons.com. Heh.
Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) statue, Minneapolis, MN
an iphone picture – I had 30 minutes with Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel for BusinessWeek at their Minneapolis headquarters (outtake below). Nearby, Mary Tyler Moore menaced tourists with a metal hat -
Gregg Steinhafel, CEO Target Corporation
Light-slaved, hard-wired. Note tennis ball. Very important to have at least two on every job.
Dennis May, CEO hGregg
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I’m told the tiny red spots infesting this Forbes picture are ladybug pretenders – Japanese Biting Lady Beetles. I’m grateful these brave humans weren’t meant to be grinning.
Rubber stamp tool rubber stamp tool rubber stamp tool rubber stamp tool…..
I think the retouch took about 30 minutes to find and vanquish all of ‘em -
the easy one
not so much
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on a roll of 35mm film were always throwaways: quick advances in the roll to get to the guaranteed unexposed stuff. When the film returned from the lab, the loading shots were always a part of the thrill of the first look. Half blurred, maybe part of a face, probably lots of cables on the ground. I miss the occasional frame that would make me smile and rethink my process. With my Hasselblad, a chip’s replaced my film backs. Happily, I have an occasional equivalent: when I overshoot the buffer’s speed, I still get an image on the card – just not the one intended. Here’s WFMT radio program host George Preston:
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