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The July/August issue of Photo Technique magazine features a piece about my national campaign for Stetson: “Corporate Photography on Location: The Stetson Campaign.” In the question & answer article, I talk about how I got the Stetson job, details on the production aspect of the shoot, lighting scenarios and other interesting aspects of this national campaign. Read the full article in Photo Technique out on stands now; for a sneak preview of the article, click here.

I had the honor of photographing with former Marine Corps medic Jacob Hyde and his dog, Mya, for the touching piece “Healed in Action” in the June issue of Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine. The feature, written by Kate Silver, tells of Jacob’s harrowing tour of duty in Iraq, his struggles with post tramatic stress disorder, and the prisoner-trained service dog that has helped him heal. This is a timely story, as our country’s veterans are suffering record levels of PTSD–an affliction that can often exceed the horrors of a physical wound. (You can read the full article on Spirit Magazine’s website here.)

On Memorial Day, I wrote to Jacob to thank him for his sacrifices and asked how we might help his fellow veterans who are struggling. He asked that donations be sent to support the service-dog training program Puppies Behind Bars.

For the cover image in St. George, Utah, I shot the scene against a backlit hillside, using a Hensel Lithium Porty 12 strobe and Westcott Octobank for fill on the right side. Photo taken with the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III camera and EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens, 1/200th sec at f/5.6, ISO 200.

I am excited to be featured in Adobe’s Photoshop.com Spotlight section and to be able to share my insights into the new Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. Make sure to check out my latest Lightroom video on the site, and you can also download a Lightroom preset that my 1st Assistant, Draper White, designed to give images a gritty, vignetted look. Also, check out this profile from Adobe about my photography and working with Lightroom 3.

I shot this Outdoor Life cover in my hometown of Carbondale, CO for the magazine’s June/July issue of top sportsmen towns. Carbondale was ranked 36th on the list. To light the models, we used two sidelights with Westcott Octobanks and a small back light. We also had some beautiful morning light streaming in from the mountains behind the models. The big game hunter in the photo is Steve Fischer, the bird hunter is Will Lamont with his pointer Arlo and the fisherman is Glenn Melus.