I’ve been poring through my archives from the last decade while rebuilding the website and there are so many images that cause me to pause and reflect warmly on all of the amazing opportunities that clients have shared with me.  

I’ve worked with architect, Mark Hirons, since Cannon Design was OWP&P and we’ve collaborated on many projects.  I think the one that’s probably going to stand out for both of us will always be CJ Blossom park in the suburbs of Seoul, South Korea.  We spent seven days photographing over a million square feet of some of the most curvaceous design I’ve ever set a lens on.

We knew it was going to be an ambitious shoot.  I brought one assistant with from Chicago, flew another out from Los Angeles, and hired a third, locally.  We brought twice the lighting I normally travel with and I spent much of my time walking back and forth between two simultaneous photo setups.  While I was doing that walking, I’d carry a third camera and grab little vignettes along the way, finding moments of architecture that often bordered on abstraction.  

Those images remain some of everyone’s favorites from the entire shoot.  I’ve just had a look at them in black and white and now that I have a brand new darkroom, I plan to spend a week or two turning the images into a limited edition portfolio of platinum/palladium prints.  It’s so thrilling to be able to look back through my career and rediscover the art within the things that I’m hired to do.  

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