Rangefinder Magazine's June issue includes a 5-page spread about my experience of shooting family portraits in a more ... well, Extreme situation - and some interesting details about the show. A huge thanks to Rex Ballard, my production partner (who is gearing up to start filming Season 8 for the show) for helping out with some research for the article. And also gratitude to host Ty Pennington, for all the great detail about why family portraits matter so much when designing new homes. If you're interested in reading the article in its entirety (and getting a better look at the photographs), you can do so here. You can also see more images of the beautiful family here.

A huge thanks to Crash Taylor for a very fun interview. Crash is an exceptionally talented England-based photographer who has interviewed some exceptionally intriguing people ... and then, recently, lowered his standards a bit (sweet soul) and interviewed me...

You can check out the rest of the interview here. A special thanks to Australian-based Sue Bryce for the new headshot - she also photographed a few other lovely images while we were in Las Vegas, which I'll post next :)

Thanks to the UK's beautiful high-gloss Professional Imagemaker Magazine for the beautiful 5-page spread of my work in their new December/January issue. They selected a fun combination of brand new images and some favorite older images. Hope my clients like finding their children's beautiful faces in the article below... Speaking of UK, I'm quite looking forward to presenting two master classes in London at the SWPP Convention this January :)

I was honored (and grateful) to photograph another Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last week. This time I photographed The Creasey Family, and the designers selected more than 50 of their portraits for their brand new (gorgeous) home. Thanks, again, to Buckeye Color Lab for the fabulous, fast printing. It was a joy to watch the craziness unfold, and to be a part of it. I'll be posting the photographs of the family - including some cool extras inside the house of the designers at work - after the episode airs, which should be right after the new year. While I was on the tent & trailer set, I also did a photo shoot with Ty Pennington, who actually is that nice and funny and friendly of a guy :)

If you're following me on twitter, you might have seen this image that I re-tweeted from Ty - his post had a great lead in... "Also this week I met one of the neighbors. We had a connection, a moment. Molly has the most beautiful eyes - and ears. " He wasn't lying ... she really did :)

A life on set: A life in trailers.

...although there's time for both work & silliness inside the trailer...

This last one was a very difficult capture. You see, there's this multi-talented photographer/ 'film guy'/assistant-to-Ty guy who says to me ... yeah, your photographs might be good and all, whatever - but I have captured the supernatural on film - can you say that *you* shoot ghosts?" I do not think so, lady. I do not think so at all ... A small caveat: I saw his ghost on film and - well, it's a stretch, and he knows it ;) I mean, if you're going to shoot a ghost, you have to put in a lot of time, effort, have the right equipment, maintain your central point of interest in a compelling intersection in terms of the overall composition, watch your depth of field, keep tact sharp while constantly keeping your eye on shifts in lighting and, of course, stay in control of the actual pose while maintaining an interaction that elicits the desired expression you want (because you don't want to overshadow the non-ghost) ... but, probably more important than anything else is this: If you're going to shoot a ghost, you should make sure that they are, indeed, .... friendly :)