12 foot ladder.
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Beautiful spring day.
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The entire school population on the playground at one time.
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Patty and Andrew wrangled over a 150 kids and teachers to create a fun cover for Brennans' schools' yearbook. Mike and Patty's daughter is hiding in this shot somewhere.
See if you can spot the creative retouching Kate had to do to stitch the two vertical shots together for the cover. Kate- your so good- it's hard to find!
Twice in the last month I've been asked to shoot images which could be used as headers for web pages. Sometimes the ratios can be extreme as with these photos Alex and I shot last week. It's fun to figure out the play of foreground and background with such a cinematic crop. 
I was honored to receive a few awards at PPA regional print competition. The image of Logan Flood won first place in the non masters men's portrait. Last summer I photographed Logan and his family at their home in Seward, NE for AOPA Magazine. The story was about how he became a commercial pilot after being in an airplane crash with a cargo company he flew and instructed for.
My overall score with other works placed me at 2nd.
A few thank yous-
Kameron Bayne and Sarah Pfeiffer for pushing me to enter.
Kate Heller for all the magic post work.
Matt Larson for driving to UPS because I sent my prints to the wrong address.
Terry Winslow for connecting with Matt to get my prints in time for the deadline.
Check out some behind the scenes from a morning spent chill'n with the What Cheer crew. They had some great ideas for images and totally rocked the modeling! Geoff rocked on the 5d with some video! Props to Jon Jelkin on the graphics- schweetness! Kate Heller brough it all together! Go team!
This is how the Malone and Torchwerks crew warms up each morning to attack the day. Let us know if you want us to teach you some moves. We've been working hard on the choreography.
