One of the clients I like to hear from is The Republik in Durham, North Carolina. Small, creative shop. I’ve worked with art director David Avis there several times. In fact I think I was his first “hire” out of school. He says “he’ll never forget his first”. I know, sounds creepy but I’ll never get over a young art director actually calling me sir over the phone. Funny stuff. But that was then. Now Dave and his partners at The Republik have but together a fantastic idea: turning the “destruction” of their previous website into a marketing opportunity. I received an advanced email invitation the other day to “destroy our old website”. You have to try it. I’m not necessarily a gun guy and still liked it. Make sure you destroy to 100%. (You’ll see what I mean.) As they said: enjoy.
Hard to believe there’s still water seemingly everywhere here. Tropical storm Fay appeared to hang around a long time. At least we found a way to have a little fun. Most of my other hurricane photos over the years have been more on the destruction, wreckage, etc - and not fun. Some did win Communication Arts recognition and others - well, they’re just interesting to look at. Here’s an excerpt from editorial coverage (writer Bill Pike) of a recent hurricane season and the actual forecast I took off the weather radio. It was almost comical listening to it from that computerized voice: Hurricane season was bad this year… real bad. I know, and so does Robert Holland, who shot these photographs, because we’re both Floridians. Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne made landfall near Holland’s home in Stuart, and my home in the Panhandle was in the paths of Bonnie, Frances, and Ivan. Both of our homes survived without much damage, and our boats made it through as well. As you see from the photos, thousands were not so fortunate.
NOAA Marine Forecast for Hurricane Frances
“A hurricane warning is in effect. Cloudy with squalls of rain coming ashore at times with strong gusts of wind. Wind northeast 30 to 60 knots today with higher gusts and waves 15 to 25 feet nearshore. Intracoastal waters five to ten feet. Wind tonight northeast 50 to 100 knots with gusts up to 120 knots. Waves 18 to 30 feet. Visibility near zero.”
And some of the shots from that storm season. Never planned to be a storm chaser. In fact I think they’re chasing me sometimes. I like the fun stuff (images) more.
Ok, not really a vacation but summer always feels a bit that way, right? Especially when I’ve not posted for a while. ( I’ll be better)
Anyway, the kids are off from school, its hot - feels like summer to me. This shot does too. I snuck away from a party we had at a local park - completely engrossed by the end of day clouds. I’m sure everyone was tired of hearing me go on and on about them anyway - so I just split for an hour. Patience pays. Or maybe it was the runner I talked into doing it. I’ll never tell . . .
What I have been doing is a lot of family stuff, finishing post production / pre-press on a 58 page catalog featuring my location sports photography, some test shooting, some jobs, stock shooting for the new rights managed division of Glow Images, and finishing the last few steps on my new office and studio. Fully custom built. Pretty cool. Pix to come once the floor is in. I’ll also post about some of these other things too. Promise. I even broke down and finally accepted that social networking and business may be related after all. So I updated and posted on Facebook and Linkedin. Guess we’ll see . . .
