Selections from the taco bar at Su Casa Aspen

I live in the Aspen, CO economy.  When it doesn’t snow (which it hasn’t this year) our little economic bubble can really tighten up.  One of the smartest things that I’ve done to stay busy in a shitty economy is, stay open to all things photography. This week its food.

Selections from the taco bar at Su Casa Aspen

Photographing food can be fun and eating it tends to be one of the perks!

The Plate de Carne Asada at Su Casa Aspen

Just a short blog about how an editorial assignment changed my life.  Okay, so maybe it didn’t change my life but it really opened my eyes to just how much fun editorial assignments are.

I was given an assignment to travel on four wheel drive roads from Boulder, CO to Aspen, CO and document the trip and its adventures.  The photo editor a wanted true travel piece.  What a blast!  Very often my commercial assignments involve the single minded objective of representing the client’s product as the “amazing, best and only…thing…you need in your life”.

I looked at the Boulder to Aspen story as an opportunity to search for the subtleties in my surrounds.  The little pictures that make the world so wonderful.  Cliche maybe, but I had a blast.  Here ya go!  The rest of this story was published last summer in Forbes Life Mountain Time.