To ease into the weekend I thought I’d post 2 cute portraits I shot last week. 
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A cute shark photograph
The Fine Art of Cooking: Garlic
A photograph capturing the fine art of cooking. I saw and photographed this found arrangement the other day with the Fuji X100s. 
New X100s photographs from 4/20 celebration
I have had my new camera, the Fuji X100s, for a short while now and have been rather pleased with it as a camera and the photographs that can be made with it. I took it (and only it) to the 4/20 marijuana celebration in Denver yesterday and made a few available light, documentary style photographs, and a few using off camera flash.
Portrait Photography of a chief justice, in the middle of the street
South Dakota’s Chief Justice, poses for a portrait with a sign he had made in the middle of a road near Pierre. My picture editor was open to the idea, the Chief Justice was willing, and the result was a photograph that tells the story of a lack of lawyers in rural areas of the state in a visually interesting way.
3 new non-traditional landscape photographs
3 new non-traditional landscape photographs attempting to capture an ethereal portrait of the landscape.
Spirit of a Landscape
Early morning, struggle to get gear into car – last of the coffee slides off the frozen roof. Thus this trip to South Dakota began but all was not lost; an emergency Redbull stored in the fridge replaced spilled coffee, and my attempt to capture a more ethereal portrait of the landscape seems to have been successful.
New Portrait Commission: DAM Director
A wonderful recent commission to photograph the Denver Art Museum (DAM) Director, Christoph Heinrich, allowed for creative composition, less conservative lighting and the opportunity to craft some visually interesting portraits of an executive in one of my favorite buildings in Denver. The biggest challenge during this shoot ended up a tie between the snow that began falling the moment we went outside for that portion of the shoot and the difficulty distilling such a complex and striking building into one or two portrait locations.
Landscape Photographs created my way
A moment before the long drive begins, I sit in my car and look at a map, or a map I’ve scribbled on the back of an old The Far Side page-a-day calendar or conjure up a map in my brain. I preset my camera to the settings I believe will be most likely to capture the mood of the landscape that lies ahead, or maybe best embody the mood of the driver. And as the car turns down the road, and the miles accumulate I hope to bring home something from On The Road.
Time Lapse video of large construction project
This time-lapse video is another portion of my construction shoot up in North Dakota recently. The crews set this 32,000 sq. ft. building in 6.5 days – a stunning process to behold. It is a neat addition to the traditional still photographs I captured during the construction – and this video really shows the process in a visually interesting way especially since the final version of this in full HD.
Photo Essay: Entrepreneurship
I’ve introduced entrepreneur and restaurateur Ryan here: http://matthewstaver.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/a-portrait-of-entrepreneurship/
Below are a small selection of photographs capturing Ryan’s journey through creating and opening DiFranco’s in this quintessential tale of entrepreneurship. I believe they offer insight into this often overlooked process – revealing emotion and risk while weaving threads of the economy, the quest for a better quality of life and community betterment into the seemingly simple process of opening a small restaurant.
This was a self-assigned personal project that has yet to find a good home in print.
