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What do you say to photographic icon, Patrick Demarchelier?

Literally. Last night I found myself at Brett Ratner's party with my friend Kristin. We walked in to the house and she ran over, "Patrick, Patrick how are you?" There was Patrick Demarchelier hanging out by himself. A quiet humble Frenchman who is a photographic icon amongst Annie Leibowitz, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen Von Unwerth, etc. I found myself a bit tongue-tied and I had no idea what to say. I ended up being able to get the words "What are you doing in town this week?" and he replied nonchalantly with a distinguished french accent "Oh, I'm just in town for a day shooting the Vogue cover." A moment later, he came and sat down by us, and showed us(along with supermodel Tori Praver, whom I'd love to shoot one day) one of his fine art books. His work is beautiful, and iconic. He's among the greats, and if you don't know who he is check his work out. (His website is terrible, but he's in that echelon where he doesn't need one. They know who he is.) It's between him, Mario Testino, and Steven Meisel who shoot every high fashion campaign.

Here's a few links to his work(I'm sure you'll recognize a lot of it):
http://www.demarchelier.com
http://www.demarchelier.net/advertising.html
http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/demarchelier/demarchelier.html

We then sat there amused as we watched Brett's assistant chase Cuba Gooding Jr. back and forth through the livingroom. He was throwing a fit about something. People watching at parties is probably the most fun thing to do.

All that said, It was amazing to meet a photographer who's work has made a huge impact on the photography industry.

Dubai is Nutty!

My friend George passed this link on to me last night. The development going on in Dubai is a bit nuts! This site shows what it looked like in 1990, 2003, 2006, 2007, and predicts what it will look like in the future. What you're seeing in this photo is the Palm Islands. They are man made and can be seen from space. The are also working on creating the World Islands, which will be 300 artificially created islands in the shape of the world. Each island will have an estimated cost of $25-30 million.

Take a look here.

Is this for real?

Not so soft snow in Mammoth

Justin had a hankering to jump off into what he thought was a soft snow drift outside our cabin. He thought wrong.

This video was compliments of our pal Michael Norwood...

Mammoth

Up here in Mammoth with a fun group of photog buddies. Some of who I just met for the first time. This is my first trip to Mammoth ever, and it's amazing. I can't believe how vast the countryside and mountains are. We'll be riding for the next couple days.

I'm still loving the Canon SD 750 for a point and shoot. I've been throwing it in my pocket when I'm out and about. I don't have to drag the MKIII around everywhere.

Here are a couple shots with the 750

Location Scouting and a few more MKIII images...

My friend Fred Egan came into town to help assist me on the Rachael Taylor  shoot tomorrow. We set out to do some location scouting down town for another up coming shoot. One of the perks of the job, is being able to "work" and hang out with a good friend. I ended up putting a little story together of Fred.

View the story here.

More 1Ds MKIII comments...
The more I shoot the more I like it. It's a tad bit lighter than the MKII. That's pretty nice since adding a 70-200mm to the MKII creates a heavy piece of machinery. The large display is awesome, but the poopy color that it adds to your images on the screen is not so appealing. The reward is viewing them on my new 30inch Apple Cinema. A few of the images I shot at 640 ISO and have been adding a little grain to soften them up. They look fantastic. So far I'm a happy camper!

Funny photos of photographers

Found this on APE. Check out all of them at the link below..

http://gayaruangkepelbagaian.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/photography-and-photographers/

Hometown Heroes

It's always great to have a Comedian as a client. Nick Thune is a funny guy, especially this new video he just made...