Malone and Co Best Images Of 2008

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Present from Sam

Sam Carter, former assistant for Malone & Co turned UK Knitting Diva, sent us a care package from England where she and her USAF husband are stationed. Just one thing Sam,we love the hat... but where is the tea cozy?

Testing Video With Malone & Co's New 5D's

Our new Canon 5D's went from the box to the field in record time. Andrew and Mike were armed with the new gear. Look for more video from the 5D as we continue to put it through it's paces.



Mike Shooting with 5D by Andrew from Mike Malone on Vimeo.

Giving and Feeling Thankful

Last year for the 10th anniversary of Malone and Co the crew gave Patty and I gift certificates from an organization called Kiva. Kiva is the world's first person to person micro loaning website. Kiva's goal is to eliminate world poverty by helping small entrepreneurs with loans from people like us. We receive email journal updates and track repayments for each person we lend money to. Then, when our loan is repaid, we can relend to someone else in need.

So if your looking to help out and not "bailout" Kiva would be a good choice.

Link to Patty and Mike's Kiva page.

This is 3 Days in The City

Images from Mike, Geoff and Andrews recent trip to NYC for the PhotoExpo.

Templeton Rye

A few weeks ago while shooting in Iowa the locals told us about a distillery that was brought back to life from the prohibition era. We headed over to Templeton, home of Templeton Rye Whiskey where Kevin gave us a private tour. There is some cool history about this whiskey including that this was Al Capone's favorite. If you're ever in the area you should stop by and then go pick up "The Good Stuff".

Hawkins Construction

There is always construction going on around town- so what better way for Hawkins to advertise than to put up signage on their job trailers. Andrew shot around the new south Omaha bridge project, new library in west Omaha and new high school in Elkhorn to create new images for outdoor advertising as well as website updates. Thanks to all the guys for being so accommodating. They look tough, but had a good time with the shoot.

Breast Cancer Awareness

It's the last day of Breast Cancer Awareness month and I'm finally getting some images from the Nebraska Susan G. Komen 2008 Race for the Cure posted. Sorry for the delay- slowly getting through the back log of photos. Congrats to all that helped make this year yet another record in attendance with over 17,000 participants! Very cool to see so many people supporting the good fight!

Saturday Night- Live From NYC

Another full day in NYC and we found alot more cool stuff that we would like to add to our arsanal. Our wish list is growing! We hit a couple good workshops that provided some new bits of info and reinforced that we are on the same page with alot of the industry leaders. Between new lighting and discovering cool new backend software - the best experience was getting our hands on the new Mark II 5d- look for some exciting new possibilities in the near future!

Huge shot out to Peter and Stephanie for letting us crash at their place! It worked out great-THANKS!

New York Day 1

Mike, Geoff and Andrew are in New York for the PDN Photoplus Expo. After a cramped flight we dropped our stuff off and headed to the Javits Convention Center to see the expo. Lookig forward to the seminars tomorrow- ready to soak up that knowledge. Ask us what we learned on Monday.

Andrew & Adrianne

Last weekend the studio aka the "media" captured tons of images from Andrew and Adrianne's wedding. Check out the gallery with a few favorites.

Old School Camera

So I'm going back to my roots and shooting some film. Yeah right, but I do love Polaroid. Too bad they're stopping film production soon. Check out Save Polaroid for some great info and links.

Andrew got me excited earlier this year with his Holgaroid. I bought one too and then while searching Ebay for film, I found a Polaroid Land Camera 350. It's Rangefinder that shoots pack film (full frame 3 1/4 x 4 1/4) that you can still find. There's even some 667 out there that's rated at ISO 3000. I can't wait to break this in on Saturday at the Wedding Event of the Year. There will be about 10 of us shooting and Andrew has made me the official media coordinator.

Coach Carroll at USC

This past June Lora Davis and I headed out to LA for a shoot at USC. The 8 minute session was a record for shortest amount of time allowed.

Check out the behind the scenes video.

Paperatizi Attack Angela's Wedding

Geoff Johnson, Ben Drickey and Andrew Marinkovich came fully loaded to cover it all at Angela's wedding last week. Congrats to Brent and Angela- thanks for the great day! You are going to have plenty of images to look through! Good work!

Day in the life of the men who keep it green

I spent a few days this month working with some men who really know how to keep it green. Here's a gallery of images from a shoot documenting the turf management crew at Nebraka's own Quarry Oaks. If you get the chance to play the course let them know you appreciate their hard work. Click here to view the gallery.

Kids Day for Operation Smile

Last weekend I opened up the studio for Kids Day. We had a blast shooting while raising some money for Operation Smile. The images below were created using our homemade ring light. What fun!

We'll be having our next session in the spring of 2009. If you're interested sign up here.

We like rumors

All of us here at the studio are waiting for the full moon coming this Wednesday. There are many rumors speculating of something new from our friends at Canon. We're hoping this thread is correct. Did you read that part about the video?

Save a horse, ride a bull

Last week I was shooting the nightlife scene at Legends in Kansas City. The Saddle Ranch comes to life with everyone wanting a ride on the mechanical bull.

Dodge St- Elevated

Mike Malone and Andrew Marinkovich spent some time up in a boom capturing the view from above- around 80th and Dodge St. The final stitched images are being used on the 80 Dodge site to help sell the residential units. Good view- if you can handle the elevation.

Have Fun, Make Money

What would you do for a litte cash? Check out what these cats did for a little green.

Atop a misty mountain

This week I've been shooting in the Olympic National Park with Torchwerks on a moving image piece about water. Here are a few
images of Ben working his magic. Look for a gallery of images from my Washington travels in the next few weeks.

Ben's been keeping me running and gunning, too.

Meet your Surgery team.

Heather McCain, Lora Davis and myself have a little fun on the set while shooting in North Platte. I will try to post a few other behind the scenes soon.

Mixing (mostly) Pleasure and (some) Business in Kauai

I've put together a fairly random gallery of images from our annual decompression trip the island of Kauai. This year we spent a few days shooting for Mad Gringo so our knowledge of the island was a big help in finding some nice locations. It's our ninth trip to Kauai and each year I seem to shoot more images. Enjoy! Click here to view the gallery.

Alabama & New Orleans

Earlier this week Anne and I spent a few days in the south. Our first stop was Fairhope, Alabama where I grabbed a few images from the local barber shop. We then headed over to New Orleans before coming home. I was pretty bummed out that A Gallery for Fine Photography was closed. This gallery in the French Quarter has one of the best photographic collections in the US including one of my favorite photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson. Of course we had to grab some beignets at Cafe du Monde. Check out the gallery of our journey.

Definately in the South.

Find Us in the Hollywood Lot

Parking lot that is. We set up shop next to the portable AC unit, and kept cool in the breeze. Thanks to the hundreds of people that helped make this shoot fun and kept it running smooth- Especially Ted! Enjoy a little of the fun we had- HERE.

ONE Magazine

For the past 6 months the photographers here at Malone & Company have all shot for ONE Magazine. Last month's issue was one that Geoff Johnson and Mike Malone shot of Architect Tom Allisma. Tom's worked on Roja, Blue, and Bianco. We shot the cover story at the new Parliament Pub in Legacy.

What Aren't They Telling US

Andrew and Stephanie are driving around looking for parking in Santa Monica, CA- finally when we do find it we get a small sign saying that parking here is hazardous to our health. Luckily we parked on the roof- in open air. Watch out hypocondriacts. Hey, check out what we're doing out here, before this blog becomes hazardous.

We are shooting at 204 Studios- luckily it's been nice because our set is outside. We are soaking up some rays while working in the cool breeze of Hollywood. Beautiful and 75-80 degrees- with only mild smog. Best part of the heat is no humidity! Only a couple days left.

Kauai Fisherman

No, this photo wasn't taken in the 1800's. But with a little help in post it sure looks like it could have been shot in another era. While on our annual trip to Kauai I spotted a fisherman working from the rocks. The image you see is pretty close to what was dancing in my head as I fumbled to set up my tripod and camera. I was only able to get 10 or so frames before he climbed into his Toyota and was on his way.

Insider's note-this image is also posted to our photo log on Posterous. A nifty and super easy-to-use blogging site. We've challenged ourselves to put at least one image up every day.

So if you need your Malone & Co fix everyday click here.

Through Kate's Eyes

Kate does some of the most amazing Digital Artistry this side of the Continental Divide and it all begins with her eyes. So we thought maybe we could get some tips if we studied the inside of her eyeballs. Let us know if you find anything unique that gives her advanced Adobe Photoshop skillz.

How do you light that?

Okoboji Fireworks

Even when we are on holiday the camera in the hand gives us comfort. Andrew got to spend this 4th of July with friends in Okoboji and the view of the fireworks was ideal. A great show with some cool bonus water reflection! If any one needs images of fireworks in the future- keep us in mind- we got um! Most exciting we got to break in the new Toyota Prius (first road trip) 47 mpg. Keep'n it Green and easy on the wallet!

Independence Day

An image from the suburbs on July 4th!

Skate Park

While shooting for the Iowa West Foundation recently- the crew at the Carter Lake skate park was nice enough to let us in to take some photos. They are a great bunch of guys that helped make the park a reality with their hard work- along with the help of the Iowa West Foundation. If any of you guys shoot me an email- I will get you some prints. Thanks agian for letting us invade.

First Entertainment Credit Union

Malone and Co hit the glamor and glitz of Hollywood right here in Omaha. We hosted the crew of First Entertainment Credit Union, along with Torchwerks, to help create a new micro site. The site's purpose is to entice the stars in LA to bring their hard earned cash to FECU. Check out the handy work that Patty, Stephanie and Andrew produced to make the shoot a success.

Telephone Museum

A couple of weeks ago Alyssa and I did a shoot at the Woods Telephone Museum in Lincoln. This place has so much history about the telephone and many types of phones on display including the "brick" cell phone which sold for $6800 when it first came out-and some people think the iPhone is pricey! Someday I'm sure this will make it's place in the museum. Click on the image to see a few more images.

Canon TV Commercial

Check out this awesome TV commercial from Canon promoting the EOS Rebel XSi. This was shot with Canon EOS 1D Mark III's combining 70,000 images from 10 different angles. You can also see the behind the scenes here.

More Swimming

As promised more swimming images from Mike Malone and Alyssa Schukar at the Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational.

Click on the image above to see the gallery.

Downtown Omaha Skyline

Did you catch the crazy sky last night? The storms have been rolling through this season and Andrew got out to snap a couple of images before the down pour.
Click the image to see a few more photos.

Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational

This past weekend we shot the Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational. All the big names were there including six-time gold medalist Michael Phelps. Later this month Omaha will be hosting the Olympic Trials.

Here's a few images I captured during the 4 days of competition. Click on the image above for the gallery. More will be posted later in the week.

In Deep at St Mary's University

This week we've matched up some fine behind the scenes images of Mike working with more photography for our friends at Saint Mary's University. The pics of Mike working are courtesy of Lora Davis, Malone & Co.'s go-to freelance assistant, who had her iPhone firing all three days of the shoot. Thanks to Lora for sharing her work.

Dance in Black and Blue

As I inch closer to my 25th year as a photographer I still wake up each morning of a shoot antsy with anticipation for the day ahead. I'm excited to get another day of using my camera to see into other places and lives.
A few weeks ago while shooting up Winona, Minnesota for my good friends at Saint Mary's University I had to the opportunity to shoot a dance class. Click here to see a slideshow of the images.

Mike Goes on a Morel Hunt and Comes Back With Pictures

Morel season in Nebraska is a nice time for a walk in the forest. A walk which Mike spent most of the time taking pictures and not picking the morels. Click here to see some of Mike Malone's images. Lucky for Mike his partners in the quest were doing their job as you can see from the bountiful bag of oh so delicious morels. And no we can't tell you where the forest is located.

Going Once Going Twice SOLD

Nestled in Rockbrook Village Shopping Center is the charming art gallery and custom frame shop that Malone & Co has used for years. Whether framing personal pieces, looking for a unique gifts shopping for something to fit that perfect space in the house or taking care of studio prints, Heller Art Images has been there for us, and it just happens to be owned and run by Kate Heller's Family. We are excited to pass along that this weekend Heller Art Images is hosting their First Annual Collectors' Fine Art Auction. With the quantity, quality and artists the auction represents, there are sure to be many more in the years to come. For more informations got to www.proxibid.com/rine or Call Stephanie Heller Durr at 402-496-9988

Perfect Storm

Angela and I were shooting at Dana College yesterday and had a rush session with some of the athletic teams. After a bit of scrambling to figure out what the look would be, we finally decided that portraits would be a better solution than action due to time. With the help of mother nature, the thunderstorm that was moving in offered a dramatic background for the soccer and football images we captured.

Can you just Photoshop® it?

Often I say "no worries we'll just fix that in post".

For this shot there we were very limited. The room was 6 feet wide with a huge desk, a lamp that we couldn't move, and about 15 minutes to shoot. Pretty blah! So Kate Heller our digital artist came to the rescue. Many of you know Kate's rock'n Photoshop® skills, so I thought I would share a series of emails that sum it all up.


Yeah. I think that would help. And anything you could do to the walls? Adding color? Darkening them? I just think it needs a little more help—we didn’t have much to work with as far as space and light.
-Heather" (Client)

"Sure thing. I can pull out the bag of tricks.
-Kate"

"I just thought there was some button in Photoshop® called “Kate’s Special Make Everything Look Kick-A@@ Filter”:0)
-Heather" (Client)

Great Wallpaper

Yesterday, Andrew Marinkovich spent the day at Adam and Emily's house (thanks for letting me take over with all the gear). Adam, a cool designer, offered up his sweet digs and awesome wallpaper. James, probably the biggest dog I've ever seen, was chauffeured to the set by Dave Nelson (Secret Penguin). Check out Dave's behind the scenes footage of James going crazy on set when he didn't get the right kraft services. All the models rocked it- shout outs to Zoe, Bailey, Spencer, Karli, and Claire for all the great work in front of the camera! Sneak peak.

Get Creative

So we needed a spotlight, but didn't have one with us. Luckily we had just eaten lunch and converted this glass to a light funnel. Angela Fehringer had the hot hand with the light and illuminated the right spot. Whatever it takes- we'll figure it out.

Add that to your packing list, one empty soda glass from lunch.

Mike and Geoff in Wine Country

Geoff, his wonderful wife Anne along with Patty and I enjoyed some stellar food and fine wine last weekend. Needless to say we brought the cameras along and took a few photos. Click the link below to see the gallery with Mike & Geoff's images.

Click here for a gallery of the images.

Baseball

I've been on assignment this week at USC, University Hospital and got a chance to shoot these triplet baseball players. I love their shoes! Of course this image need to be tweaked just a bit, so I had to give it some "old school" magic.

Mike Malone was gracious to let me break in the new monster, Canon 1DS Mark III. At 22MP this camera can handle anything that comes our way.

Malone & Co's work for Arbor Links

Late last summer Mike shot a library of images for Arbor Links Golf Club. The new work was part of the clubs move to a private club with a resort component. Mike worked alongside Ben Drickey and our sister company Torchwerks to create both moving and still content for the Arnold Palmer signature course. The images, both moving and still, are live on clubs new site.

Check it out here:
http://www.arborlinks.com

Take a Chance

We were on our way back from a shoot in Grand Island and stopped over in York, NE to enjoy fine dinning at Chances R. We all ate way too much- topped off with some deadly carrot cake.
Thanks to Greg for taking us to his old stomping grounds and sharing this jem! We won't be eating for a couple days. If you're a Blue Cheese dressing connoisseur this is a must stop.