Last summer I got a call from Lawdragon to shoot portraits of two lawyers here in Alabama for their journal. Lawdragon is a national portal listing of lawyers, evaluations and lawyer profiles and for this assignment they wanted to spotlight lawyers outside of their offices and not in suits. The direction was to place them in environments that matched up with something regarding their own hobbies or interests outside of the office. Jere Beasley and Ralph Cook were my two assignments. I have been wanting to release these for months but as it usually turns out the time between the shoot and when pictures are published sometimes stretches out further than one may expect.
Mr. Beasley lives in Montgomery and was Lt Governor during one of George Wallace’s terms as governor. In fact, Jere was acting governor for 30 days after George Wallace was shot. Mr. Beasley’s office was a short walk from the Montgomery Biscuits’ ball park. At this point I forgot the exact involvement Mr. Beasley has with the park itself and the land on which it sits now but I do remember that he loves to watch them play! That’s where we decided to go for our portraits.
Jere Beasley
Mr. Cook lives in Birmingham and is a lawyer with a firm downtown. I found out that he was the former Supreme Court Chief Justice of Alabama which is a big deal for such a humble and personable man. I called him to discuss the shoot and discover his hobbies and fishing came to the top. He gladly volunteered to bring his hat, vest, waders and fly rod to our shoot. We chose the lake at Oak Mountain to shoot and I waded (minus waders) into the water with him and my assistant positioned my strobe toward Mr. Cook (i.e. held the strobe to keep it from falling into the water).
Ralph Cook
The Ceci's of Huntsville, AL
On the left I included the page from the March 2010 edition of Family Circle Magazine and on the left included one of the family shots that I personally loved. We shot that at the The Davidson Center for Space Exploration next to US Space & Rocket Center. The story was to highlight the Ceci’s civic involvement as well as the city of Huntsville. I learned some cool things about Huntsville I didn’t know which was how much history exists there especially in the area of Twickenham Historic District which includes the oldest house in Alabama which was built in 1814. There I also found the childhood home of actress Tallulah Bankhead.
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Thanks to the good people at Southern Living I have the tear sheets from the Healthy Living Section from January’s edition. It is really cool to see talented designers put together a visually appealing layout of text and photos like they did here….unlike my feeble attempt here to show them! |
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January - Healthy Living Section
Thanks to WonderfulMachine.com for being found by Southern Living. I got the pleasure of meeting lots of good people both at the magazine and at the bootcamp (BirminghamBootCamp.com). Mary Zarate really kicks everyone into gear out there in Mountain Brook for Birmingham Boot Camp. Everyday that we had planned to shoot it was raining like crazy. There was a tight deadline so we finally found one morning early that was dry – 8AM! Ok that’s not that early but for me it was especially when it was that cold. Thanks to everyone for a good shoot.