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	Archive for the ‘Big Game Hunting’ Category Stepping Into Fall Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Opening Day I had big plans in September to spend quite a bit of time in the field with doves, dogs and camera gear. In Texas, dove season typically brings a change in the weather, and this year we were needing one in a big way. After months of parched pastures, dusty roads, dry tanks, and searing heat, the rains arrived right on schedule. I managed to get in a couple of shoots between opening day and the first deluge on September 6th, but every planned hunt after that date was a washout. Literally. Below you’ll find a smattering of images that I shot before the rains fell and the early season birds scattered. Hopefully there will be a couple more dove days before other distractions take over. Return to Versus Country Back in July, I traveled to Georgia to do a shoot for Versus Country television. They’ve just sent me the ad layouts with the images from that shoot, and I’m amazed at what their graphic design folks have done with my shots. These ads will be running nationally for the next few months to promote VC’s fall and winter TV lineup. Mike Hanback – The Buck Stops Here Bill Dance Outdoors Jeff Foxworthy & David Morris – The Bucks of Tecomate Larry Weishuhn – Winchester Whitetail Revolution Coming Up In late October I’ll be traveling to Montauk, NY to work on the first installment of a large-format pictorial on fly-fishing the Altantic Seaboard. Author Pete McDonald will be penning the commentary and I’ll be doing the photography work. Our plan is to cover the Atlantic coast from Maine to The Outer Banks over an eighteen-month period and chronicle the huge, ravenous and ecclectic fly-fishing culture of striped bass, bluefish, false albacore and whatever else we snag. If all goes according to plan, this book will release in the Spring of 2011 through my Departure Publishing imprint. Check back next month for a preview of those images. Tags: dove hunting, Texas, upland birds Posted in Big Game Hunting, Upland Bird Hunting \| 1 Comment » Quiet on the SET! Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Jeff Foxworthy and David Morris discussing something about two feet wide In mid-July I traveled to Pine Mountain, Georgia to do a shoot for Versus Country television. They had assembled their entire hook and bullet talent lineup for a two-day media production event, and my job was to get the still images that they’d need for their upcoming fall/winter advertising program. I’ve done a couple of shoots in the past that combined film and stills, but this one was a completely different animal. With sound, lights, art direction, shooters, stylists, wardrobe, and caterers, the total production involved a small army of people, and mine was the least expensive gear pile on the lot. Over two days they arranged about a dozen different sets on the grounds of Callaway Gardens preserve and resort. There were log cabins, campfires, bass boats, ATV’s, old pickups, rods and guns, rattling horns–toys galore. The challenge, for me, was to get the shots they needed between film takes. Sometimes I only had a few minutes to set up and shoot before the talent got herded off to another location. There was no time for me do any elaborate lighting, but in a few cases I got to use what the film crew had already set up. Even though there was a lot of downtime, I still fired about 2,000 frames and turned out some cool images. It was a fun shoot with a great group of folks. The art directors at Versus are still going through the keepers, but here a couple of shots from the outtakes file. I’ll post up a few of the finished ad concepts as soon they’re done. Larry Weishuhn in a tricked-out South Georgia deer camp Bill Dance, Larry Cszonka and Larry Dahlberg relaxing between shoots Coming Up Later this month I’ll be doing a couple of blue water fishing shoots off the Texas coast, and possibly a few more redfish days. In early September I’ll be packing my shotgun for dove season. If you need stock images, my entire archive is available (really big) by FTP delivery and I can usually get them to you within minutes as long as I’m not too far from my desk. Stock usage rates are priced on request. Drop in and have a look… Tags: deer hunting, Georgia, whitetail Posted in Big Game Hunting \| No Comments »