I can’t think of a more beautiful backdrop to an outdoors photo shoot than snow-covered Mendenhall Wetlands in Juneau, Alaska. With golden dried grass poking through, blue-green tree-covered mountains in the back and the expanse of the wetlands, it’s hard not to be enchanted by this place. My original idea was to have the elegant model Rochelle wear a red polka-dot dress. I wanted to mimic the pattern […]
Model: Korbyn Location: Eaglecrest Ski Area, Juneau, Alaska It has been an unusually warm and snow-free winter this year in Juneau, Alaska. Even the base of Juneau’s ski mountain, Eaglecrest, had no snow when I went up there in late January to scout out photo shoot locations. A small rock quarry on the side of the road laid bare. Its black rock exposed, hill destroyed, boulders
Cachet is many things. An environmental activist, a global traveler, an advocate and an educator, she sets her own path wherever she goes. When I heard she was coming for a couple of days to the same town I was in, I knew we had to do a photo shoot together. It didn’t take long to come up with an idea for the shoot. I
What happens in Juneau, Alaska when the last cruise ship leaves town? While bears, devoid of an audience and salmon, look for hibernation dens, locals come out of the woodwork. Crazy things start happening. Like me deciding to drag a red couch to the middle of the frozen Mendenhall Lake to set up a photo shoot with two lovely models, Rochelle and Sydney, in front of
Chickens. There are more of them than any other species of birds. Many, many billions of chickens are reared every year. We eat them, we eat their eggs. We keep them in our backyards, but mostly get them packaged in clear plastic bags from a local supermarket. We have a vague idea of how they are bred and housed before we get them. A story