Carole Radziwill of Real Housewives of New York at The Setai 5th avenue. Cover of todays Pulse Section.

Carole was really fun to work with and for some reason thought she looked heavy - she's got a great bod and is gorgeous and was great during the shoot. Big shout out to Maria , Tory and Lisa for putting this together.
See the full gallery here 
Read the story in The New York Post here

Willie Nelson at SiriusXM studios

What an honor to get to work with the legend once again. I shot the album artwork for his live CD  "Willie Nelson and friends Stars and Guitars" at Ryman Hall in Nashville. 

So seeing him in New York promoting his new album Heroes at SiriusXM was a complete thrill. With him were his sons Lukas and Micah and the rest of the family. 

Half Marathon runners old & young. Pulse cover in The New York Post May 19, 2012

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Susan Siderman is in her 70's and ran the UAE Healthy Kidney 10k run on May 12th and finished it. The same morning I shot the beautiful light shot in an earlier post. Lauren Mantel was training for the half marathon in Brooklyn and also successfully finished that race. I recreated the lighting from May 12th with Lauren so she was back lit with a long shadow coming out in front of her and then used fill light from the sun to light her face. It's hard to see most of that in the shot because the image was silhouetted but you get a sense of it from the modeling on her calves and the hair light.
See more from the gallery, which turned into a bit of a modeling shoot here.
Read the article in the Post here

Gorgeous play of Light and Shadow in Central Park

What's special about this shot is that even though the sun is behind the runners, they are fully lit from the front. This spectacular lighting condition came about from a fluke of timing. The Sun was behind them and high enough above their heads so it wasn't flaring my lens, but low enough that it was casting the long shadows on the ground. In the spot that I go this shot the sun was also exactly hitting the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, probably half a mile away, and turning the glass sheathed building into a giant mirror that was shining it's light right back at us and lighting the runners. The result was great rim and hair lighting and long shadows with perfect full fill on all the participants. I love when coincidence and timing create amazing light and shadow dances like this.

Alfie Boe performs at Le Poisson Rouge on May 7th, 2012

Alfie Boe's story is pretty amazing. He auditioned for Les Miserables after someone at the car repair shop where he worked suggested he go because he overheard him singing at work....He landed the role of Jean Valjean and the rest as they say is history. He has a spectacular voice and the ladies seem to like him ALOT. He made me think of a singing Chuck Norris.

See the gallery here;

Anita Baker performs at RCMH - May 6 2012

The incomparable Anita Baker at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday May 6th.
Gallery of images here

Wall 2 Wall marathon at Symphony Space 2012

You gotta love a guy who uses a bullhorn in his act. The Wall 2 Wall marathon at Symphony Space "Gertrude Stein's Paris" yesterday featured big band leader Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra among many other acts.

See the gallery here 

RIP MCA Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys

Gallery of portraits of the Beasties from 2006 SXSW 

Kelcey Kintner and The French Way of parenting in today's NY Post

This was a story about the French method of parenting which supposedly is much more laisez-faire than in America. Kelcey Kintner of  mamabirddiaries.com is quoted as not subscribing to the ways of Froggie mom's and dads. For the portrait I was really looking for an eye of the hurricane feel and I think I got a pretty funny and sweet result with these shots. The pix were published in the print edition in the jump but didn't get into the online edition. See the whole shoot here.

Kelcey's blog mamabirddiaries.com
See the story in The New York Post here