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The new issue of DHome is out and I am excited to announce that my first published image for them is nestled comfortably on page 28. I thought I would share the final product and the other images I sent it for their approval. Many thanks to art director extraordinaire Jamie Laubhan-Oliver, Laura Kostelny, and Peggy Levinson for making it an extremely positive experience.
I shot out of bed on Friday and decided that I wanted to ignore all of the duties of the day to walk around downtown Dallas and photograph random places. As I walked through the streets and back alleys looking for interesting subjects and hoping not to get mugged, I ended up outside a friends downtown condo. After a quick phone call to announce my presence, I was whisked upstairs to enjoy my first Mexican Mocha. (patented by Alberto) We enjoyed the coffee and chatted about photographers. I convinced Alberto to join me on my pilgrimage to the land of leisure. We took the train to Deep Ellum and ate at All Good Cafe, which is my new favorite spot to grab lunch. Extremely relaxing environment. We met up with Chad Windham who happened to be visiting the cafe to discuss business with a colleague. After a brief discussion it turns out that Chad was looking to share some studio space. (Which was exactly what I have been looking for!!) So there may be a great fit there. Alberto and I continued on our stroll around Dallas and I have to say (and this is a compliment) they should put alberto’s mouth in the circus!!! He is one hell of a tour guide. We would walk by a building and I would get the history of the place and he would point out which alley not to go down b/c it was haunted. The whole experience with alberto was fascinating. We ended up taking a break at the Amsterdam Bar to enjoy a beer and continue our chat about photography. I really enjoyed that place and would fiercely recommend it. I have been looking for a bar that reminds me of Austin and Amsterdam Bar is spot on. And the coolest part is the studio I was looking at is across the street. I ended the day by taking the train back to my place and having a relaxing evening. Friday was a perfect day.
Photographer Will Rutledge works with his kick ass creative director to make some rugs look sexy
I got a call from a Lizzy Grojean, a freelance creative director, to come shoot a commercial assignment for Basil Scaljon. Basil is an exotic rug dealer that operates out of San Antonio, Texas and he wanted to run some regional ads for his main store. The graphic designer on the photo shoot was out of BBDO in Chicago. We spent the day photographing specific rugs and then I spent some time photographing some interiors for Basil because I liked him and wanted to help him out. Both Basil and Liz allowed me to take part in this experience and gave me complete freedom to ply my artistic insanity. (Within certain guildlines… of course.) Rugs certainly aren’t the most entertaining of subjects, but we had fun during the shoot and I made my assistant entertain us by dancing (in his own truly unique way) to the musings of Madonna and Depeche Mode. I think I even saw Basil shaking it a little when no one was watching… Good photo shoots start with a good crew of people… lesson has been learned.
Will Rutledge photographs exotic rugs for commercial photo shoot.
Here is a slide show of some arrangements I made… I thought I would jump into the studio and play for a bit. I have to give it to stylists, setting up flowers and such is a little harder than I thought it would be…hehehehe. It was a great experience though… The first photo I call “flower floating in orange juice”.
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