Archive for May, 2010
Kerry Brady called me from Golf Digest to shoot a portrait of Richard Crawford for their BackSpin section of Golf World magazine. I have to confess I know nothing about golf other than I know better than to even try it myself and it’s not because of the time commitment either. It obviously takes talent and determination to do well. Mr. Crawford was a 15 year tour pro and won back-to-back NCAA Titles.
I gave Richard a call and we decided to meet at Eagle Point golf course where he found us a golf cart. He drove it to my car and I loaded my lights and equipment and we drove out to the nearest green where I set up and he and I chit chatted. Richard is a man of deep faith and most of our conversation was about faith rather than golf which was quite refreshing.
I feel I made a new friend that day.
Other Images that didn’t make their cut which I liked.
I have received so many emails (and one phone call) from many TalentHunter.com models who say they had gotten an email from me about casting call or invitation for a paid assignment. Please know that I did not sent anything to anyone concerning this. I extend my apologies but it appears that someone named Allen Matthews must have emailed many and those people found me on a Google search thinking I was the same person.
I extend my apologies for being spammed.
2008-2009 UCP Annual Report
My friends at United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Birmingham (follow them on Twitter) asked me to do specific portraits for their annual report using some of the participants in their program along with some of their contributors. Jennifer Ellison wanted something in black and white which we did and they turned out very nicely. Another goal was to try and get some natural and fun interactions between everyone in the subjects and at least one group was having a lot of fun dancing and showing off but they didn’t make the cut for obvious reasons….but there was fun in all these shots. In the shot on the right Daniel is an obvious Auburn fan (who knows why right?) and we had fun picking back and forth about Alabama vs Auburn and shouting “Roll Tide!”
One of the challenges of getting all the shots together of everyone was organizing everyone to be ready on the same day which didn’t happen. The shoot took place on 3 different days with the first day done by bring my mobile studio to their beautiful headquarters and the next two days were shot at my studio. There was one girl program participant who just wouldn’t smile for the camera – until I left to check out one of my lights that had stopped working when I heard everyone yelling at me, “Alan! She’s smiling get over here!” Thankfully we got the shot!
I will post one shot that didn’t make the Annual Report cut but gives some idea of the fun time we all had together.
