The latest work
Principal Cammile Hopkins of Ross Elementary and some of her students for a special project.

Here is the entire shoot.
Cylo taken during Schwanger Bros annual Customer Appreciation Day.

View all the shots from this great annual event here.
June First Friday.

View all the June First Friday images here.
Fireworks over the houses on New Street after a Barnstormer’s game for a special project.

You can see the entire set here.
The fountain in Penn Square, just because.

The Convention Center at night.

The Convention Center during the big storm June 12th.

A shot from the Lancaster County Community Foundation annual meeting. I want to welcome the LCCF as my newest client.

You can see all the shots here.
One of a series of shots from the Amtrak station for an upcoming print project.

You can see all the Amtrak shots here.
Finally, I just finished these shots this weekend. Every year I shoot the homes in the Lancaster Parade of Homes that WeeBee Audio/Video has worked on. Here are two shots from the Parade.


You can both sets of the Parade images here and here.
I’ve been so busy working
I haven’t spent any time here talking about it.
So, starting from right after the Sertoma BBQ, here is quick wrap up of the last two weeks.
If you click on the link in the intro to each image, you can view the entire gallery from which that image came.
One shot from the 27th Annual Fiesta (a fantastic party by the way).

Ricky Calderon, owner of Club Rumbha was kind enough to invites me in to shoot some images for a project for the City. Club Rumbha is a great little club and if you want to do some Salsa, it’s the place. From what I understand, Ricky even offers to teach beginners some steps.

I just started a new project for JSID focused on one Northeastern Lancaster neighborhood. There’ll be a lot more in this set soon.

Velaska Jewelry is a new client and I’m working on a bunch of different things for owner, Kathryn Pearce. These are just some initial tests. We’re working on defining a style and then I’ll be shooting a good representation of her many designs.

I managed to wake up early enough to catch some shots at this year’s Red Rose Run.

Last Saturday’s 300 North Queen Street Block Party was fun. Here’s one of my favorite shots.

One of my favorite things about Lancaster is the Lancaster Police Mounted Patrol. I’ve been lucky to befriend two of the officers and they’re always good for a great shot when they are out on duty. I stopped by the paddock a few days ago to see what’s new and check on one of the horses, Zeke (below) who has literally come back from death’s door and is now back on duty with Officer Wayne McVey. We’re all really glad Zeke and Officer McVey are back to work.

Most recently, as part of that new JSID project I mentioned above I got to shoot inside Grace Lutheran Church. It’s a beautiful church. Here are just a few of the great images I managed grab in a mere half hour inside.

A week in the life
Here’s what I’ve been doing for the last week.
First Friday, a shot from Gallery 141…

The second wedding I’ve shot in two decades (I don’t shoot weddings, this was an exception for a very good friend)…

Kids visiting the Lancaster Museum of Art’s Maurice Sendak exhibit…

A shot from a lunch promoting the Convention Center where a video that I made from my images of Lancaster was shown…

Artistry In Motion vintage car show…

McCaskey High School Senior art show at Building Character (which, by the way, was a wonderful show)…

Vintage Datsun 1600 being worked on at WeeBee Audio/Video…

Shooting a TV commercial at WeeBee Audio/Video (Watch Blue Ridge cable, channel 11, Sunday’s at 3:00 p.m. to see the commercial)…

That’s a busy week.
Two things stand out here.
One, I love my work. Look at what I get to do.
Second, Lancaster is an amazing place. The variety of things to do in any given week is simply astounding. The beautiful surroundings, the friendly people. I love my city.
Today I’m working on a jewelry catalog and web site, a catalog for a racing products manufacturer and work for the rest of the my regular clients.
And, as Linda Ellerbee used to say, so it goes…
Dinner and a show
I attended the Sertoma BBQ Kick Off Dinner. It was a great, extremely fun show. Not unusual in that I’ve yet to meet a Sertoman who didn’t know how to have fun. They’re a wonderful group.
I can’t wait until the BBQ next month. By the way, I am setting up something special for the BBQ. It’s basically about 36 hours long from start to finish and I’ll be there shooting it from start to finish and, and here’s the fun part, I’m working on a way to post hourly updates to the site. So you’ll be able to see the entire event almost live.
The Sertoma BBQ is unique in so many ways but it’s also one of the most visually interesting event in Lancaster.
You can look at the images from last year’s BBQ here.
The complete gallery from the Dinner is here and below, a few shots from their after-dinner production, “Chickens of the Caribbean”.
Going up
Portrait shots of Josh Nowak and Mark Moosic of the Lancaster County Convention Center for JSID.
Josh and Mark were great subjects and we had absolutely perfect weather. Made for a nice shot.
Product work
I’ve just finished some for work LPW Racing shooting one of their parts lines. Some samples from that shoot are below and without wallowing (too much) in self-congratulatory blather, I’m really happy with them. I love doing product work. As much as I enjoy event work, it’s really nice to be able to inhabit my own little world and have the pleasure of the extra time to craft images that really pop. Obviously the background on these are dropped in as is the shadow. I could certainly shoot these with a blue background and create a shadow but the sort of hyper-surreality of the pure background and Photoshop shadowing is much stronger.











