I'm mostly a photographer who lives near Lake Michigan in the Milwaukee, WI area.I work as a "Digital Asset Manager / Photographer" at UW-Milwaukee and travel the midwest on the weekends and holidays.
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Zeke staring down some corned beef.
I’m pretty excited about this 1st place winner in the UPAA MIC this past month. I was confident it would do well, I’m pretty attached to the photo and I enjoyed taking it. When we scouted the location we were expecting another typical lab. The plant growing area turned out to be beautifully lit and full of possibilities. I knew what I wanted to do right away. One hurdle, though, was the space. It was only big enough for one person. Luckily I love these challenges. For this shot I jammed by camera in to the corner on a boom and tethered it to my laptop where I could fire it off remotely. I displayed what the camera was seeing using LiveView and stood right next to the researcher, Ching-Hong Yang, where I could give him directions and move him in the frame. I love it.
As always, check out all of this month’s winners: http://www.upaa.org/mic-archived-galleries/october-2011
An old picture of my favorite rooster. His name is/was “Dude” and he was the best runt of a rooster ever. Whenever I’d come home he would run up to me and stand on my feet. He also loved to be held like a baby. Quite a relaxed bird. You can’t tell, but I was actually holding him up to the camera in this picture while he was laying in my left hand. I believe this was taken in 2004. I haven’t had a rooster since.
Zeke was gracious enough to sit for me and have his portrait taken. What a nice dog!!! Ok..ok..the truth…Erin and I were gracious enough to offer Zeke marshmallows and fine cheeses in order to sit for a couple pictures. What a difficult subject.
