Soft Star Shoes

Softstar Shoes is a small shoe company in Corvallis that handcrafts shoes for kids and adults. They have come out with new running shoes and asked me to photograph them in the studio and people using them. You can see more of the photos on their blog, and even vote for what to name them. You can also read an interesting story about how they tested the prototypes.

Thank you Al Reser

I photographed the Oregon State Alumni Association Orange and Black dinner last Saturday in Portland. This was the event that Al Reser was honored as the E.B. Lemon Distinguished Alumni Award.

Al died earlier this week.

I did not know him well but had met and photographed him many times over the last 10 years.

The first was after he donated the 10 million to OSU for the naming rights to Reser Stadium. The last was earlier this year at the groundbreaking for the Linus Pauling Institute, which he and his family donated 10.65 million to.

He has done great things for Oregon State University, the school I love, and I wish I would of thanked him earlier.

You can read about him here, I took a lot of the photos you see in the video.

Spring Senior

After a few reschedules because of the rain, we photographed Chelsea last week. She is graduating soon and her family wanted photos quickly to get them out with her announcements. She was our first senior ever from Siletz High School.

Many faces of Sarina Rodrigues

I photographed OSU Psychology Professor Sarina Rodrigues last week. She studies she studies empathy and stress, she has her subjects take this test. http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Faces/EyesTest.aspx so we shot a bunch of different faces of her.