A few years ago here in Aspen Colorado the first custom hat maker set up shop. Most people came for a cowboy hat but they left with something more. Chris Roberts had a sense of the hat people needed whether they knew it or not. I did a photo shoot for one of the local Aspen magazines and this is a selection of images from that shoot.
photographers in Aspen
Pizza Party
I shot this video of Aspen’s New York Pizza restaurant during the 2018 summer. It began with some fun behind the scenes shots and grew into a real promo video after I had the idea to do video portraits of the employees.
Video portraits are interesting. I intentionally just pointed the camera at them and left it there. You can see for yourself how different the reactions are. There is no judgement. They are simple and real clips.
Aspen has been losing the places you can grab cheap eats. New York Pizza is one of the few. As always, it was really fun for me to meet the owners and all the people that work there.
aspen photographers
Vignettes of the desert
This short film is from the fall trip to Arizona. You'll see the quiet beauty from the desert landscape. It's a break from my Aspen Colorado photography and I get to stretch out with moving pictures. This was filmed in two locations both east and west of Phoenix, AZ.
For a larger view click on "Vimeo" in the lower right corner.
I love out-takes!
Sometimes parents are horrified but after twenty years of photographing children, mostly here in Aspen, I realize kids are going to be kids. I just roll with it. I let them do their thing so I can do my thing. I have an unspoken contract with the kids. I love the chaos that goes on behind the scenes while we're getting that nice family shot that goes on all the cards.
When photographing in Aspen people seem to gravitate to a more casual look for their family portraits. That's a good thing because the weather can be doing anything and everything. The kids can have room to be kids but at the end of the day I always get my shot! . The landscape work I’ve been doing in recent years compliments the many years I spent doing portrait photography in Aspen Colorado. I’ve been shooting celebrities and family portraits for over thirty years. Being the aspen photographer that so many have chosen to work with is always rewarding.
I love projects...and travel
Normally I photograph in or near Aspen Co. This image from a photo series I shot in West Texas. It was spring roundup time. Up at 4:30 so by the time there's enough light to see the cowboys are already on their horses and ready to round up the cows and calves. The trip was very successful & I'm editing a slideshow with sound. I'll post it in the next few days.
I get bored easily...
I'm a photographer in Aspen, Colorado. If you landed here looking for a photographer in Aspen CO then I'm here for you!
I don't know whether to think I get bored easily or if I'm in a creative mode more often than I realized- and is one of those negative and the other positive?
This video is an example of why I'm asking myself these questions. On a recent photo trip, while mountain biking on some amazing trails, I had the idea to make video vignettes of my wife. I had the final video in my head before the first take.
The notion that came into my mind was a silly video for her website showing what she does for fun. I say "silly" because I wanted a simple video instead of a serious art video of her having fun.
So I got to ride sweet trails and get a bunch of shots to make a fun, silly video. See what simple looks like-