Austonian ad in July issue of Texas Monthly

The July issue of Texas Monthly has a beautiful ad running for the new Austonian building in downtown Austin. This is my favorite from the past four months of advertising featuring my photographs. If you get your hands on this month’s issue of Texas Monthly, check it out. I think this ad certainly does the trick. The ad is very eye catching, and I believe the layout complements the image perfectly.

BUY THE ALBUM HERE: http://www.austinsweetsongs.com/

My friend Monica Cravotta asked me to create this video in support of the efforts of the Sweet Songs Album benefiting the Milk Bank of Austin. This video is a montage of interviews with the artists, musicians, songwriters, producers who put the album together. It helps describe the music, the cause, and a bit of the efforts in developing the album. Buy the Sweet Songs album at www.austinsweetsongs.com and support a great cause and the efforts of a wonderful group of local women musicians who have created a fantastic album for all the right reasons.

All of the participating women are thrilled to be contributing to the children’s music genre while advocating for the health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants and raising awareness and money for our local milk bank. 100% of the profits from Sweet Songs CD sales will go to the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin: milkbank.org/

The album will be celebrated and released in Austin at a family-friendly brunch and concert on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, 2010 from 10:30am to 12:30pm at Big Red Sun. Please reserve your tickets in advance here: austinsweetsongs.com/cd-release-concert/

Austin Energy Green Building Annual Report 2009

Austin Energy Green Building uses my Austin skyline images in their 2009 Annual Report. I found this published image particularly interesting, because in the early part of my professional career I worked at a design firm that mainly did annual reports. Now, I’m one of those contributing photographers. Keep building green Austin, even though my house is out of date. I’m working on it.

Southpaw Jones is a local Austin musician / songwriter. He is funny, witty, and tons of fun to see play live, especially at the Whip-in (with a Pecan Porter in hand). Southpaw plays at the Whip In on Thursday nights @ 8PM, for much of April / May 2010.

Find out more at: http://southpawjones.com

or http://www.whipin.com/

Keep and eye out for upcoming advertisements in Texas Monthly. I have provided them with many more images, and I imagine they will make great ads.

Here is another round of skyline and building overview photographs for the newly completed Austonian building in downtown Austin. This building is gorgeous and I tried my best to do it justice with these photographs.

I would like to thank the nice folks at Hines Properties for allowing me access to get such a great viewpoint. Thank you to Moreland Peoperties and Giant Media for this exciting opportunity to photograph the Tallest residential building in Texas. See the images in use at http://www.theaustonian.com/

See the first round of Austonian images here.

I recently had the opportunity to create images of the Austin skyline featuring the newly completed Austonian building. This is an exciting project for me because I really enjoy photographing the skyline. The Austonian is a beautiful building and as the tallest building in Austin, it certainly stands out.

The wind and cold were very distracting, but I think I got a shot or two the Austonian can use. Due to the inclement weather, I only had one day to photograph these. Once the weather clears I will be photographing more angles, perspectives, etc…

I would like to thank Mr. Paul S Meisler of Pioneer Real Estate Services for allowing me to get the perspective, along Congress Avenue, for most of these shots. Thanks also, to the security person at the Austin Convention Center, who approached me after I got the shot I needed and was very nice while escorting me out.

See more Austonian images from the follow-up shoot.

See a blog posts about the Austonian here and here

Recently I photographed a series of Fire Stations for Natex Architects in Houston, TX. Fire Station #37 was the priority and the first of the series I have worked on. I spent all day at Fire Station #37, from sunrise until after sunset. It was a pleasure. The Firefighters were a very friendly and hospitable bunch. My challenge was the lack of light for an evening shot required by the architects. They wanted to emulate a architectural rendering done of the building. I had the angle right, but there was a severe lack of light outside and I needed to expose it just right at the right time to get the dramatic sky. There was also glass art in the entrance way that needed to be lit. I positioned lights behind the entrance way to bounce off the wall and make the art glass more pronounced. I used a reflector, three other light units to light the outside and combined some exposures for the outside shots. Here are a few images from this photo shoot.