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Blue Shuttlecock
I did some light painting photography in Kansas City, Missouri at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art a few years ago. The subject was one of the Shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen. There was some controversy about the outdoor sculptures when the...
Electric Fan Barn Quilt
Here’s an example of my fine art photography work I shot this past spring. It’s a photograph of the Electric Fan barn quilt on Highway 240 in Howard County, Missouri near Fayette. Barn owner Martha Holman selected the Electric Fan motif because it resembled one her...
Cessna Citation X
I had a unique opportunity when the owner of a Cessna Citation X jet hired me for an aviation photography job in Kansas City, Missouri. The plane was located at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport just north of metropolitan Kansas City. The owner of the jet...
Autumn Zenith
Last fall, I did a whole series of photos looking directly up the sky. The technical term for the point precisely above a location is known as the "zenith." I became interested in the idea of the zenith after doing a series of drone photography shots of looking...
Rural Farm Truck
In rural Chariton County, Missouri sits an abandoned Chevrolet farm truck, secluded under an aging carport attached to a vacant farmhouse. The rusty vehicle sits like a sentinel watching everything, a perfect subject for my light painting photography. I used three...
Stout-Goldschmidt Wedding Infrared
Benjamin Goldschmidt hired me to photograph his wedding to Morgan Stout at Stephens Lake Park in Columbia, Missouri. The couple had an outdoor wedding at the park. The reception took place at the Riechmann Indoor Pavilion. We took most of the wedding photos in a shady...
Artichoke Annie’s Antique Mall
Here's an example of some commercial photography at Artichoke Annie's Antique Mall in Columbia, Missouri. I asked my beautiful mother to model for this photoshoot. I recruited a photogenic salesperson at the store to pose too. We found an attractive antique booth with...
Glasgow, Missouri Floodwaters
During the worst of the Missouri River flooding in Central Missouri this past summer, Missouri Life Magazine asked me to take over their Instagram account for some editorial photography. I spent several weeks traveling to different flood areas in Boone, Cooper,...
Special Olympics Missouri
I've worked with Nick Borgmeyer of Simon Oswald Architecture on past projects. He asked me to photograph the new Special Olympics Missouri headquarters in Jefferson City, Missouri. The new building is a state of the art facility with a full-size gymnasium, weight...
Tow Truck Infrared
Saline County, Missouri, is one of my favorite locations for rural photography. I found this old tow truck behind an abandoned farmhouse. The late afternoon sunlight was raking the side of the vehicle which sat in a patch of overgrown prairie grass under a big shade...
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