Here’s a favorite tear sheet of mine from this month, its the opening spread of a cover story I shot for Book Business Magazine. David Borgenicht is the president and founder of Quirk publishing, as well as the coauthor of those terribly funny worst case scenario books.

David was extremely generous with his time at their Old City headquarters and did his part to make sure the shoot went really well. His company is also worth following on twitter as they’re normally pretty funny. http://twitter.com/irreference

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.

I just stumbled across this photo I shot late last year in the most recent issue of Main Line Magazine. The photo is of Howard Taylor, who through an interesting turn of events became the owner of two very nice restaurants in the area. We shot him at his restaurant on 12th street, a New Orleans’ style creole place called “Les Bons Temps” (The good times - I think - my French isn’t great).

You can read the article here.

I was very happy with the photo selection that was made because I felt that the really warm colors in the dining room area (where he is sitting) reminded me of my time spent in New Orleans for Rethink over the last two summers.

Howard Taylor, at Les Bons Temps in Philadelphia

Not for nothing, it was the type of assignment you wish all assignments were - the subject was easy going and fun to be around and the setting had an appealing atmosphere (Not to mention, the food is great and the beer selection isn’t half bad either)

Below are two out takes from the shoot I also enjoyed.