Wednesday, March 4, 2009

A Wonderful Compliment...

Although I have posted this photo just recently I am posting it again for good reason so please allow me this. And it isn't a difficult photo to look at! This is American Gladiator "Fury" from a photo shoot she did with me recently. As part of a discussion the photo was posted by myself on OpenPhotographyForums.com. I received back a comment, one of the most articulate compliments I could not have imagined. Authored by the founder Asher Kelman, it is even more greatly received because of the standards and quality that are demanded at OpenPhotographyForums.com. Please read the remarks following the photo...


"...I enjoy the fact that although she is handsome and has a beautiful figure, she is not presented as someone's tittitillation or plaything. I'm amazed by the extensively different ways we can portray beautiful women. Frank Doorhoff's glamorously lit women leaping into the air, Doug Earle's nudes behind what seems like a confessional curtain or Nikolai's brazenly provovative young women, all present a different value of the fairer sex. Imagine we go from a grandmother who climbs mount Everest or tends to an infant to a friend imaged with a 100 year old soft-focus lens as if she's a movie star like Lauren Bacall!

Your own pictures are so different from anything we've had before in that the woman is strong, physically strong and shown for her physique and yet still is feminine. There's no fawning for nature, but everything she does defines her body more as a perfect muscular machine, rather than a sensual trap, the source of nurture or drama we have not seen till now in OPF..."

"In this picture, she has a leather jacket over her shoulders, a heavy chain taught over her breasts with no submission to any simple sexual tease, (even with one soft shadow of the chain traversing her pants), rather to show that like the chain, she can hold her weight, guard her own person and is substantial and a partner worthy of respect, but on her equal terms."

"The chain and her arms cover her nipples allowing her full breasts to be seen but not displaying any tawdry cheap thrills are available. This is not about the sex, but rather about the power of the women despite her being of the weaker sex..."

"...I never imagined that someone could present a partially naked woman in such a pose and I'd not brush it off as trivial...."

"I look forward to seeing more of your work with her."

Thank You Asher!

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Pro Bodybuilder Moe ElMoussawi

Moe ElMoussawi is one of the top ten bodybuilders in the world and on his way to the 2009 "Arnold" competition this weekend in Columbus Ohio. From our photo shoot two weeks ago...






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American Gladiator "Fury"

Some photos from my recent shoot with American Gladiator "Fury"...








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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Best of the Best!

Planet Muscle has come out with their "Best of the Best" issue and has included me as one of the best photographers in the bodybuilding and fitness business. And they have awarded BodyBuilding.com the best bodybuilding and fitness website. BodyBuilding.com has been one of my clients for a long time and a great deal of the content on their website, features and advertising has been photographed my myself. So Thanks Planet Muscle!


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Saturday, January 31, 2009

SportsShooter - Front Page!

SportsShooter is a respected community of photographers from around the world. Not just shooting sports but photographers covering wars, the White House or for that matter Little League and the SuperBowl. A diverse group from community newspaper photographers to people from Sports Illustrated and USA Today. As a member of SportsShooter I am pretty excited to have my coverage of the Iron Man Pro make the front page today...


So if you go to SportsShooter today, you will see it. After that it will be on my page at SportsShooter.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Iron Man Pro 2009

Last week I had the pleasure of shooting at the first professional bodybuilding competition of the season at the Iron Man Pro in Los Angeles. Not only did I get to shoot but I got to see my work on display in trade show booths and a video I produced of my photos for one of my clients, ProFight Supplements, as the title sponsor of the show. The video was conceived by myself and created by my good friends at Blue Rabbit Films. And it was shown on two huge screens on either side of the stage...


You can watch it yourself on my website "SecondFocus" and click on 'multimedia' and then "ProFight Promo". Turn your sound up LOUD!

To see some photos from the show go to my website directly here at "Iron Man Pro 2009"


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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Two Minute Workout

Don't have the time to spend in the gym? How about two minutes?


Anyway this was a workout demo we did so you can see what it is like to push real weights around. Videotaped with fitness model and personal trainer, Jake Sawyer, at the Power of Fitness Gym in Palm Springs, California.

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