Posts Tagged ‘Tearsheets & Publications’

The latest issue of Robert Kennedy s Oxygen magazine arrived on my doormat this morning.  In the Future of Fitness section is a tiny photo of Christine Taylor from our shoot last summer in Quebec City.

It was my first and to date only shoot in Quebec City so I didn’t really have much idea for locations.  Christine suggested we shoot in the Parc des Champs de Bataille.

The weather can best be described as “meh“.  It was a rather cold mid Septembers day, the sky was grey, and it was all a bit rubbish.

We started shooting in the park.  Nothing sexy or provocative – just “Oxygen” type fitness shots.  Brrr it was cold.  I was in my coat and gloves so after doing a few shots I suggested we move somewhere lower (we were on top of a big hill) in the hope of finding somewhere a little more sheltered from the wind.  At the same time we were leaving a police car pulled up – I figured it was just doing its rounds and making sure nobody stole any tress or something, so I didn’t think anything of it.

We found another spot in the park and were about to start shooting again when the same police car pulls up and out gets the obviously very bored policeman.  Clearly not enough crime in Quebec City.  He muttered something at me in an angry tone in French, which of course I understood nothing off.  He translated and said something about naked girls in the park…  I was bemused because a) there was sadly no nakedness, b) there wasn’t anyone else around, and c) this cop was being a complete and utter dick.

He moved us on, we found a better location, the sun came out, and everyone was happy!

I’ve almost never had a problem with doing photoshoots in Canada.  The only other place in Canada I’ve had an issue is when trying to shoot in the park where they hold the formula 1 grand prix in Montreal.  The rest of Canada, never a problem.  Ever.  Pains me to say because I love Canada, but Quebec is weird!

Whoop!

I was just sent the above photo by my friend, model, and client Karla Adams.

She’s used the tearsheet (right hand window) from a magazine which featured one of our photos from a shoot in Las Vegas and got it printed up real big for one of the windows of her new gym.

The gym is in Riverside, California.

It looks great Karla! 

www.karlaadams.com

The place… the host hotel lobby for the WBFF World Championships in Mississauga. This women pointed at me and the hat and asked if I was Michael Palmer.

The woman was Debbie, owner of Natural Muscle Magazine. I’d known about her and her publication for some years, I’d even tried to make contact a few times but without any success. Within a few minutes we were sitting in the hotel restaurant on our first of several “dates” that weekend.

The following weekend was Olympia in Las Vegas and Debbie had asked me to shoot the cover for her 14th anniversary issue. The concept was simple, getting as many of the previous cover models together and shooting them all at the same time.

The shoot took place early on Friday morning just before the shoots to the Olympia Expo opened. Debbie had asked the master of the group shoot, Fitness America owner Lou Zwick to help us with direction.

Lou was exceptional – easy to see how he’s earned the title of “master of the group shoot”.

The cover, and my first ever published work within the pages of Natural Muscle magazine can be seen below.

Thank you again Debbie for a wonderful opportunity. An opportunity that may not have happened without my wearing my Tilley Hat…

With thanks to the model Karla Adams I find myself with a unexpected tearsheet in Inland Empire Magazine…

The photo was taken a couple of years ago at Lake Mead near Las Vegas early one rather chilly morning.