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shuck and awe
I did something the other night I haven’t done in a while. Slept in my trunk. I did that more than a few times in college for shoots, but that was when I had a Jeep with plenty of cargo room. I have...
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vacation crasher
I’ve said it before, but my favorite assignments usually involve getting a call from an editor, asking me to go to place “x” for a few days and shooting “whatever.” Luckily, this time place “x” was a...
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murder in celebration
Gawrsh, something happened in Mickey’s town. A m-u-r-d-e-r. It was the first one in 14 years since the master-planned community was developed by Disney. People always equate suburbia and cookie...
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there’s no place like home
It’s the curse of living in a town that feeds off tourism. As a photographer, I want nothing more than to just go…to leave and just go make pictures in a new place. I live in a town that people...
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best of 2010
This year was a year of transitions for me. Transitioning. From staff to freelance. From shooting what they want to what I want. From not owning my photos to realize the value of holding copyright....
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potter redux
Harry Potter is quickly becoming my forced-upon muse. I got a call from The New York Times last week to head back up to Universal Orlando to shoot at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter again –...
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houston deconstructed
Landmarks and maps are for the devil. When I travel I’m usually shooting pre-determined locations that reveal the best side of a certain location for some magazine or newspaper. I was in Houston,...
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zut alors!
“Zut Alors!” I always cursed my decision to take French in high school, but the one time I could have used it, the only thing that kept creeping into my brain was that little phrase from class I...
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aaron’s ark
These little plastic boxes of computer parts and glass we dangle from our necks don’t just produce rectangles. They give us access to our neighbors. They give us the opportunity to feed our passion...
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“bikini” + “girls” + “nsfw” + “spring break” + “beer” + “photo” = seo heaven
Spring break. Girls. Beer. Bikinis. Cleavage. Booty. NSFW. Hard Bodies. Skin. Hot. Tattoos. Drinking. Color. Insane light. Access. I tend to over think my shoots. I was racking my brain...
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you had me at swamp
There are a few reoccurring themes in my work down here in Florida, but none that seem to stalk me more than rednecks and mud. I got a call from ESPN the Magazine to go cover the Swamp Buggy Races...
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what the hipsta?
Never thought this day would come. This was purely shot out of spite, obligation, and curiosity. After all of the “Hipstamatic is the Devil” posts (here) I have written on this blog, I thought it...
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coloroholic
If color was a drug, I’d be a total junkie. I don’t know what it is, but for me just driving and finding a new wall to shoot against is my addiction. Sometimes I won’t even shoot, I’ll just shake my...
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room with a view (room 3031)
It’s the same for every one of us. You finally check into a random hotel, cart all your belongings up an elevator, down a hallway, and end up at a numbered door. The door entry card never works...
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spf
Well, it was go to the beach and be the only dude wearing jeans in nearly 100 degree weather day. Life as a Florida photojournalist could be rougher, I guess, but for a simple story about new F.D.A....
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the hunt for red
Ah, red…how I missed thee. I don’t hang my camera around my shoulder everywhere I go anymore. It’s not the fact that I don’t enjoy shooting, because I love it more than anything other vice I have,...
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final launch
I’m always amazed that I have spent a decade in Florida, and have never witnessed a Space Shuttle launch. That changed today – too bad it was the last one. Beng a part of the Reuters team that was...
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summer print sale
Just added a new batch of signed art prints (available in 8×10, 11×14, 16×20, and 20×30) on my Photoshelter site – give your walls some love from Chip Litherland Photography! Here! Old prints still up...
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sunsets and silhouettes
I spent the week doing a couple things I don’t do very often – disconnecting, actually going to the beach for fun (instead of a shoot), and putting my camera down for a while. The eye candy one night...
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on self-assignments (with a side of mud, booze, and rednecks)
If you don’t like the assignments you are given, make your own. Shooting for free is the kiss of death in this industry, but there’s a time for everything. Sometimes, a self-assignment is worth it....
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beach bum
Just stay on the sand. I love these kinds of assignments…and these type of clients. Bay Magazine is visually helmed by Bruce and Suzette Moyer up at the St. Petersburg Times, and they do an...
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legoland florida (aka primary color heaven)
Red, Yellow, Blue, Green…any possible color you can think of. Everywhere. Literally. I can’t think of really a better place to feed my addiction to color than LEGOLAND Florida, and luckily I get...
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¡viva la mexico!
I don’t know how a photographer can ever actually go on vacation – it might take a cement room devoid of any color in Des Moines for me to actually leave a camera aside and take a “vacation” from...
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homer. harry. spidey. barney.
Spent a couple days working with a few characters up at Universal Studios for a marketing shoot a few months back. Truly one of the most enjoyable gigs when the client hands you a keys to their park...
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the right coast
Ahhh…color, beach, bikinis. I really enjoy Florida. I was recently commissioned for a five-day marketing shoot running around Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Kennedy Space Center and all the places...
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great scot
Through a flood of whisky, losing golf balls, and navigating nightclubs I was able to make a couple photos during a recent trip to celebrate a fellow photog’s bachelor party in Scotland. That party...
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color and composition | leica x2 workshop | miami, florida
Anyone that knows my work, knows that I bleed not red, but the entire spectrum. For me, color is the number one tool in composing a picture, followed by composition, light, and moments. I tend to get...
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airscapes | tampa, florida
Client: “Want to spend five hours in a helicopter for us over Tampa?” Me: “Sure, what do you want me to shoot?” Client: “Whatever you want.” Me: Big smile. I spent five hours up in the air for...
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visual playground | leica workshop | south beach + calle ocho
Find your visual playground. I taught another fun weekend with participants in the Color + Composition workshop at the Leica Store Miami and spent it waxing about all things color, light, and...
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leica en méxico
Color is what drives me and how I see. It’s the first thing I look for when breaking down a scene, and the last thing that stands in the way of a good photo. Without it, you’re in...
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