I had a last minute shoot fall through this weekend which I would normally classify as a “bummer.” It wasn’t tough however to see the silver lining in this as it left me with a weekend clear of any responsibilities or plans. Much of it was spent riding around on my bicycle, watching baseball or hanging out at my buddies Steve and Bill’s place which has an amazing roof deck. (And a kegerator)

Here’s a panoramic I snapped while on the deck with Bill on Sunday night as they tried to get the grill fired up. You have to click on it for the full effect.

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Here’s one of my May tear sheets that I’m most proud of, from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. I enjoyed this shoot more than most for a few reasons. A large part was because of the subject matter and another part was the challenge of getting everything right.

The story was a cover feature for Kiplinger (I didn’t shoot the cover) that focused on 5 different stories of people facing tough times in the midst of this recession. The story wasn’t all doom and gloom, it showed what the people were doing to help their situation and the two subjects that I met, Cliff and Laurie were happy, positive people. (I love meeting new people, its my favorite part of this job)

The challenging part of this shoot was that not only were my two subjects supposed to be shot in two separate locations (one a studio here in Philadelphia, another the subjects living room in Delaware) but they needed to be shot in exactly the same manner AND they needed to match the other 3 photographers shots exactly.

On the phone in the subject's living room with Wendy Tiefenbacher at Kiplinger's as we review our lighting setup to check for consistency.

Photo editor Wendy Tiefenbacher did an amazing job orchestrating all of us photographers and checking our digital files remotely as we set up each shot. All of this was done on deadline to boot.