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Archive for the ‘Projects and Events’ Category
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Blooming Century Plants and Blackbird
I know I’m late to the game here, but I’m learning to love my iPhone-as-camera.
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Sunset @ Lincoln Blvd
I don’t condone driving while photographing, but here’s a shot from my windshield earlier this evening.
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Dog @ Roosterfish
Dog sighted today, parked in front of Roosterfish Bar in Venice, CA.
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POTD: LED Paper Lantern
Was about to turn in for the evening and realized I hadn’t done my photo of the day. It’s still a new routine for me. Good night all!
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POTD: Things On My Shelf
Things on my shelf. I took this camera to Burning Man in 2006. My goal is to retrofit it to accept a digital back and bring it back this year. With apologies to Arden (thank ...
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POTD: Coffee
Been working long hours this week and on deadline to deliver finals images for a magazine cover tonight. Coffee is my friend. Incidentally, if anyone asks why there are footprints on this table, just change ...
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POTD: Balloon in Tree
Ever see that episode of “30 Rock” where Tina Fey’s character has a bag stuck in the tree outside of her apartment? This thing’s been stuck outside my window for about 2 weeks.
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POTD: Venice Alley
Found this alley while jogging today and snapped it on my iPhone. You can bet I’ll be back with a girl in a dress.
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Working from Home
When I work from home, this is my view from the office. Shot on Nikon D7000 with Lensbaby
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Venice Beach
Never a dull moment at Venice Beach. Shot this today on my iPhone while on a little bike ride. This is the beginning of my new attempt to take a pic a day. I ...
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Venice Art Walk May 20th
This is my auction submission for this year’s Venice Art Walk and Auctions. The image was captured on my old Nikon body that I self-modified to shoot visible+Infrared spectrum. The print is 16×20, framed, printed ...
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Friends and Neighbors: Okoye Carter
This is an ongoing project I’m working on with artist Mb Boissonnault. I decided to begin a project that would allow me to explore video. Coming from still photography, that meant beginning where I left ...
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the Human Light Suit in “Vegas Rated”
My Human Light Suit project was recently featured in “Vegas Rated,” a beautiful publication (something that you can’t say about too many of ‘em lately) that is, in fact, precisely what it’s title suggests. Pick ...
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Friends and Neighbors: Martin Sugarman
Martin Sugarman sat down with us for the Friends and Neighbors series of video portraits. Martin is a former war photographer who founded the surf culture magazine “H20.” He is heavily involved in the Venice ...
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Friends and Neighbors: Angel
Angel was our 10th subject for this video portrait series. I met her through a mutual friend, she did hair and makeup for a number of photographs in my book, “Shooting Male.” We hadn’t spoken ...
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Schwabel Shoots Motion
In mid-2010, I was chatting with my neighbor, painter MB Boissonnault about my desire to turn my close-up “faces” portraits into video, but that I didn’t know anything about video and had no clue how ...
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Burning Man 2011: the Human Light Suit
If you’ve been following me on Facebook (as opposed to here… where I have a terrible habit of not posting updates) you’re aware of my Kickstarter campaign to photograph the Burning Man festival. Well, we’re ...
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Schwabel’s Return to Burning Man in 2011
You may have seen last year’s burning man project. This year, I’m going back, and I need your help. Here’s the new announcement video for 2011! We’re bringing about 6x as much gear and I ...
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Neil Patrick Harris photographed by Eric Schwabel for the Tony Awards
I actually did this portrait of Neil Patrick Harris for the awesome folks at the Los Angeles Stage Alliance, but was contacted by the Tony Awards to use it for Sunday’s program, so if you’re ...
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CREATE-A-FACE reviewed by PE Maggie Soladay
Schwabel Studio rep Joseph Aranda met with photo editor Maggie Soladay a few weeks back in New York, and gave her a copy of our “Create-A-Face” promo. Maggie does a monthly blog post where she ...
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Kirk Douglas and the Oscars
Aside from all the hits we’ve been getting from my Burning Man project, the most searched term on SCHWABELSTUDIO.com this week is “Kirk Douglas.” I photographed him for LASA in 2009 at his home in ...
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Faces of Burning Man
In 2010 I went to Burning Man. Not the first time and certainly not the last. However, this time I brought lights and a camera and photographed portraits in a less-than-traditional manner, staying true to ...
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Rest In Peace, Betty Garrett
I’m honored to have had the opportunity to photograph actress Betty Garrett in 2008. She was the second or third subject for my series of close up portraits. I remember telling her if the lighting ...
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Faces of Burning Man
More images from my time at Burning Man last month.
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Back from Burning Man
My project is awaiting approval from the good folks at Burning Man HQ, but in the meantime, here are a few shots and some handheld video I took of the man on the day of ...
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Mal-Mart at Burning Man 2010
Amongst the other things I’m working on at Burning Man this year, I also photographed the images that will be the walls of the structure of the Mal-Mart camp. These will be printed on a ...
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Burning Man Project @ Kickstarter.com!
People have been asking me about this burning man project I’ve been posting about on Facebook and on here for a while (the posts were deleted thanks to a server glitch. The old ones are ...
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Vote team SCHWABEL!
We’re in the running for the PDN Self Promo awards this year for our website schwabelstudio.com. I’m very proud of the site and what Faith @ Los Angeles Graphic Arts accomplished in the design and ...
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thank you, venice art walk!
Thanks to the thousands of people who came through for the Venice Art Walk last Sunday! The Venice Art Walk and Auctions are a fundraiser for the Venice Family Clinic, which serves up some quality ...
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things are happening…
A lot has been going on here lately… So forgive the radio silence. Though I do have to admit, I took a few days off to get one last snowboarding trip in before the SoCal ...
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J.R.
Recently photographed JR, an actor in Hollywood (Hollywood, California!) whose last name I forget… ‘lil help?
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Joe Spano, Evil Mickey, and Chris Pine.
We’ve all noticed changes in the world the past few years — that’s a big “duh.” But those changes translate to what visual artists produce for the world as well. Last year, German publisher Gmunder ...
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Dennis Smeal and Jon Beauregard
Dennis Smeal wrote the adaptation of “Stronger” that I have blogged about in the past. Jon Beauregard was recently nominated for an Ovation award for “Land of Tigers”
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Actors Joe Spano and Sam Anderson
Actors Joe Spano and Sam Anderson recently sat for my “[ detail ]” series. TV enthusiasts will most recently recognize Mr. Spano from NCIS (which, as it turns out, I have a good number of ...
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Actors Jennifer Paz and Robert J. Townsend
Actors Jennifer Paz and Robert J Townsend recently sat for my “[ detail ]” series. Thanks to the Los Angeles Stage Alliance on these recent shoots.
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[ detail ] Actor Barry Lynch and Writer Deborah Behrens
Some new faces for today. Deborah Behrens is an award-winning freelance writer. Actor Barry Lynch has appeared in numerous movies and TV shows, as well as acclaimed stage performances.
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[ detail and light ] Bee and Brandon
I’ve been photographing Bee since I moved in to my Venice Beach studio in 2005 — were right near Gold’s gym. So this giant man showed up with Bee — that would be Brandon, who ...
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[ detail & light ] Brandon is a Very Large Man.
I met Brandon through my friend and occasional model Bee (more on Bee coming up in the next day or two). He wanted photos and I wanted to photograph him, so there you have it. ...
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[ detail ] Another Man’s Vision, p.3
Final selection from my live photo shoot at Terence McFarland’s “stronger.”
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[ detail ] Another Man’s Vision P.2
Continuing from my last post… The concept is perhaps too complicated to explain in a meaningful way on a photo blog, and indeed it took me a minute to comprehend (and a dress rehearsal). For ...
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[ detail ] Another Man’s Vision, P.1
I was recently asked to be a part of an interesting performance project. An adaptation of “the Stronger” from the play by August Strindberg. The piece was part of Creative Director Terence McFarland’s artist-in-residency at ...
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SchwabelStudio.com — now chock full of iPhone goodness
Just in time for 2010, and just in time for iPhones to start supporting Flash, thereby rendering it useless (OK, not really, but lets take bets for how soon that does happen) the web elves ...
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[detail] Scott Thomson’s face is awesome.
Scott Thomson is an actor in Los Angeles, and the expressions that came out of his visage were astounding. I’m only posting a few here. As with everything I’ve been shooting of late, these were ...
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[detail] Sarah Lilly
Actress Sarah Lilly is my favorite of the women I’ve shot for the [detail] series lately. She originally hails from Kansas and has a stunning face. I wish I had shot her as she arrived ...
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[ detail ] Josh Carpenter
Hope everyone had a great christmas! Thanks Conan O’Brien-sized actor Josh Carpenter for coming in on this shoot for my [detail] series.
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[ detail ] Linda Bisesti
Hope you are all recovering on the day after Christmas… I recently photographed actress Linda Bisesti for my [detail] series.
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[ detail ] Cooper Huckabee
Actor Cooper Huckabee recently sat for my [detail] series. One of the most amazing faces I’ve had the honor of capturing for the series, and the first person I’ve met in this town that doesn’t ...
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[ detail ] Jim Whipple, Casey Ruggieri
Two horizontal portraits from the [detail] series for your Monday enjoyment.
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[ detail ] Caitlin Rose
Actress Caitlin Rose came in for a sitting recently.
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[ detail ] Raul Clayton Staggs
This is the 2nd run for Raul and I. I photographed him earlier this year for the Los Angeles Stage Alliance. He came back with a whole new look this time for a shoot for ...
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Christopher Landavazzo
LAPD officer Christopher Landavazzo of the “Cops for Causes” charity.
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[ detail ] Ray Bradbury
I photographed author Ray Bradbury (89 in this photo) earlier this year, a great hero of mine. This was the second time I hunted a subject down. Writer Deborah Behrens told me she was interviewing ...
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[ detail ] Dan Martin
Did these shots of my friend Dan Martin @ Chrome Hearts. Trying a new lighting setup for the closeups, aside from the high key background… something a bit more traditional perhaps, but entertaining for me ...
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[ detail ] Debbie Devine, Raquel Lehrman, Pat Towne
Three new additions to my series [ detail ] Super-cool (and best-named) co-founder of 24th Street Theatre, Debbie Devine; Founder and managing director of Theatre Planners, Racquel Lehrman, and director/producer Pat Towne. All three amazing ...
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[ detail ] Steven Stanley, Kim Rose-Wolter, Danny Cistone.
New faces for my [ detail ] series today. Theater critic Steven Stanley, Actors Kim Rose Wolter and Danny Cistone.
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[ detail ] Matt McKenzie, Ken Roht, JonJon Briones
Three new faces for the [ detail ] series, actors Matt McKenzie, Ken Roht, and Jon Jon Briones (not Jon, as I called him). All photographed for the Los Angeles Stage Alliance by yours truly.
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[ detail ] Cochran, O’Hara, Sanders, Sawyer
Four new and awesome subjects for the [detail] series.
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Now… Where Were We?
Yes it’s been a mighty long time. Though I can’t say that’s rare for me, it seems like every other month I go missing from my pseudo-blog. This time it was all about my book, ...
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[ detail ] Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Chad Borden, Ed Waterstreet
Three more great faces. The descriptions below came directly from my producer on these shoots: Mark Kinsey Stephenson is an actor and artistic director on and off for several companies, including Actors Co-op, the most ...
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[ detail ] Ann Closs-Farley, Steven Leigh Morris, E M Lewis and Vanessa Smith
It’s a Three-for-all Sunday. A little recap on the Faces series, which, henceforth will be called [ detail ] Why? You’ll find out. This is not an explanation of what my vision is, or how ...
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Faces: Kirk Douglas
I was honored to photograph Kirk Douglas at his home earlier this year. We arrived just as he too was getting home from a meeting, and the first thing he said to me (jokingly) was ...
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Faces: Tosh Yanez
Tosh @ Wilhelmina/LA. Part deux. This time not shot in infrared. Check out my last post to learn more about ‘im. Hair by Noogie Thai.
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IR Faces: Tosh Yanez
Another infrared “Faces” portrait. This time m’friend, wardrobe stylist, and model Tosh Yanez. Tosh has worked with some amazing talent, and is an amazing talent in his own right. He can be seen in the ...
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IR Faces: Matt Brown
From the same shoot as my last post, shot this on my hobby-ish infrared camera. Shot entirely in the invisible Infrared spectrum. The sensor (it’s digital — made from an old D100 body) is covered ...
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Faces: Matt Brown
Matt is a photographer and model based in Los Angeles. Recently he sat for my “Faces” series.
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Faces: Chris Anthony
Chris Anthony is Associate Artistic Director (and head of the youth programs) for Shakespeare Festival/LA, a nationally recognized company in downtown targeted at city youth and engaging them in the community and arts through Shakespeare.
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Faces: Raul Clayton Staggs
Raul Clayton Staggs, casting director, occasional actor, and Associate Artistic Director for the Playwrights’ Arena sat for this Faces portrait recently.
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Faces: Debbi McMahon at Grand Guignol
Debbi McMahon is the artistic director of Grand Guignol, a movement-based company that performs in the style of the Grand Guignol of Paris — known for onstage ‘horror and comedy’ shows that featured dismemberments, etc ...
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Pic of the day: Self-portrait
Shot this on a new digital back for my Mamiya RZ67 that I got a few months back. I’ve shot a few commercial projects on it but haven’t really played around with it that much. ...
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Faces: Gustavo Marzolla
Gustavo originally hails from Brazil, but now works as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. I met him through a previous model, Jeff, and shot him for the Naked Truth series, but called him back for ...
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Faces: Christian Levatino
Artistic director and lead actor for Gangbusters Theatre Company, Christaian Levatino, recently sat for my “Faces” series.
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Faces: Edgar Landa
Edgar Landa recently sat for my “Faces” series. Edgar is the managing director of Son of Semele, a very alternative, experimental theatre company. He is also a successful fight choreographer, and a faculty (and alum) ...
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Faces: Lynn Manning
Lynn Manning is an award winning poet, playwright, actor, and former Blind Judo Champion of the world. He recently sat for my “Faces” series.
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CALIBRATE @ SCHWABELSTUDIO
What ISO is that camera wantin’ to shoot at, anyhow? Time to calibrate some new gear and recalibrate some old gear (deleted those damn profiles!), and I know I’m not the only one… Come to ...
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Jason Alexander
Photographed Jason Alexander (of Seinfeld fame) for the “Faces” series. Nice guy!
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New Faces
Eileen T’Kaye on IMDB . Justin Hibbard’s website . . Ian Roberts on Wikipedia
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Happy Birthday, Harold Cleworth!
Today is my dear friend and famed painter Harold Cleworth‘s birthday, and it’s a big ‘un — 70, but he doesn’t look a day over 69. Anyhow, Harold and I were a part of something ...
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Micah Mayell
Actor Micah Mayell Photographed by Eric Schwabel
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David Engel
Actor David Engel photographed by Eric Schwabel
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HOT for WINTER
Sunday, December 14th at the Distillery, Venice Beach, CA. Info at Facebook events
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Lily Holleman
Lily Holleman photographed by Eric Schwabel
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Alexandra Billings
Transgendered actress Alexandra Billings photographed by Eric Schwabel.
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Cricket Meyers
Sound designer Cricket Meyers photographed by Eric Schwabel.
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Paul Plunkett
Paul Plunkett photographed by Eric Schwabel.
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Herb Siguenza of Culture Clash
Actor Herb Siguenza of Culture Clash photographed by Eric Schwabel for LA STAGE.
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Alan Mandell
Actor Alan Mandell photographed at his Bel-Air home by Eric Schwabel.
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Tom Kurthy
Tom Kurthy photographed by Eric Schwabel
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Oanh Nguyen
Oanh Nguyen by Eric Schwabel
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Betty Garrett
Actress Betty Garret (All in the Family, Laverne and Shirley) was amazing to work with. Photo by Eric Schwabel
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Fran Bennett
Actress Fran Bennett recently played the title roles in Othello and King Lear
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Alexandre
Alexzandre photographed by Eric Schwabel
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SCHWABELSTUDIO.COM UPDATED
I recently signed with Scott Meyer and Associates. As a result, SCHWABELSTUDIO.com has been updated. This shot of Ian Roberts is for my 404 error page, much to his dismay! More to follow…
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Random.
I don’t know. I used it as my Christmas card.
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Neil Patrick Harris
Photographed Neil Patrick Harris. Seems like I get hired to shoot him once a year. He’s been great every time!