I recently shot at Hatch Labs in Frank Ghery’s west side highway IAC headquarters.  I have always wanted to see that building, his first in the city.  Coincidently, I was sent there again 2 weeks later for another assignment.  Hatch Labs is an incubator for cell phone app start ups.  This is my second Forbes Leader Board shoot.  You can see the other post here or read the Forbes article here.

You can see more of my work for Huggies here.

I recently photographed the Russian American fertilizer magnate, Alexander Rovt, in his recently completed “empire style” 27 million dollar upper east side townhouse.  You can read the Forbes article and see a slide show here.  Also of interest, he just bought 14 Wall Street for over $300 million cash.

For those of you who might be interested, click here to read my thoughts on Adobe Lightroom 4.1 and the new 2012 process version.  Also of interest is a bug when using Lightroom to read files from the Canon 5D Mark III.

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Last month I worked with DraftFCB to mark the 100th anniversary of Oreos. Everyone pitched in and we had a great Saturday shoot rewarded by piles of cookies.  Here are some of my favorites.

Thanks to Vanessa Morel for wardrobe styling, Jill Appelbaum, Megan Sheehan and  Illona Siller of Draft for creating the project and putting it all together, and all of our young volunteer models who made the shoot so much fun.

I am interviewed in the current issue of Emerging Photographer magazine about my Chevy Chase shoot.

You can read the story here.  Funny that they call me a lifestyle photographer.

Here is a new campaign I shot in November for Huggies.  It was a lot of fun working again with Ogilvy Chicago.  The dads pictured here are, from top, Ben Cherry, Sergio Fuenzalida, Ron Charles and Leo Coltrane.

I photographed a really cool campus in Manhattan called General Assembly.  Entreprenuers rent space in these large open areas for their small business start ups.  Their are classes and common areas for meetings and hanging out.  You can read the story here.

It’s always fun to do something different.  I had to find an interesting angle, showing the expanse.  The photo ran as a spread across two pages. They wrote a bit about some of the people in the photo with arrows pointing to them.  So I didn’t want anyone to be too small.  I ended up shooting with the Canon 24mm TS-E II, but barely utilizing the movements.  I really like that lens lately.  I used it for a portrait recently which I will post once published.  I was on a ladder and the camera was just out of comfortable reach.  I gently clamped my laptop to the ladder’s top and shot in live view on the computer.  I was able to verify focus and see what the camera was seeing, and fire the camera on my computer- very cool.

Last year I photographed Mercy Townsend, winner of the Gerber Generation Photo Search.

The original Gerber Baby, Ann Turner Cook came by to meet her.

Melanie Sawyer was our baby wrangler.  Thanks to her, Mercy worked with us happily for about 2 hours which is exceptional for a 2 year old.

Ellen Silverstein was styling wardrobe and Nikki Wang fixing Mercy’s hair as her parents watch proudly.

Everyone crowded around Some Studio to see Mercy give Ann a hug.

Can you tell which one is a Gerber Baby?

Thanks to Josh Freiwald for the behind the scenes photos.

Bubbles can be oh so elusive.

Al blushed as he was complimented by his on air colleagues this morning for his appearance on the cover of American Way.  I can count the number of times I’ve actually seen someone reading a magazine story with my photos in it (3).  This time it happened on national TV!

You can watch it here.

Check your seat back pocket for the February 1st issue of American Way Magazine.

You can see more of my work for American Way here.

Here is one of my favorite outtakes:

There are more of my photos of squirmy babies on Huggies Youtube Channel.

You can see more of my work on this campaign here and here.

Just before the holidays I photographed Jon Cheigh of Cohen and Steers for Barron’s.  You can see the article here.

A 5-year-old friend of ours found a photo I took in Babies R Us today. You can see more of my work with Aprica here.  You can see a couple of other shots from this shoot here.