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

So much of my work is currently embargoed that its tough to show anything recent that I’ve been commissioned to do. However, the personal work is often times the most rewarding and as such that was the case this weekend.

So after a busy week Saturday morning was setting up to be a very relaxing day as Liz and I decided to head out to a flea market on South Street and then meet up with our friend Chris to help him pick out some sneakers. (Liz is a sneaker expert) All of our plans got sidetracked however when Chris and I spotted a vendor selling replica armor. I convinced Chris that this one helmet would be worth $100 just to be seen riding around the city wearing it on his bicycle that afternoon. I’m a good salesman. Chris bought it. Riding around with it WAS worth $100. We quickly decided that we needed to do a quick portrait session with the helmet though so that the helmet could live on through the world of the internet.

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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.