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Nashville Works with Local Non-Profit Thistle Farms

I always love it when I get the chance to work for non-profits.  It’s nice to give back to the community.  This time I was working for Thistle Farms.  Thistle Farms is an organization that helps women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction.  In return for providing homes for these women they […]...

Charlotte Crew Travels to Tampa for a SPEED Channel Shoot with NASCAR Driver Kevin Harvick

Audio op Graig Goodale and I had a chance to catch up with NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick for a shoot with SPEED Channel this week. Our day began with scenics of the beaches and water ways that surround the Tampa skyline and then it was off to shoot Kevin’s arrival at the airport. Once we picked […]...

Atlanta Director of Photography, Tom Wells, Hits the Road for TNT’s NASCAR Season

Each year the NASCAR Season is divided up among several broadcasters, the first two being FOX Sports and TNT. Tom helped FOX Sports wrap up their season in Dover, DE at the Monster Mile and transitioned over to TNT’s Summer Six Pack (named after the 6 races that TNT covers) the very next week. Tom […]...

Nashville Crew Shoots for SPEED with NASCAR Legends

Usually if I’m shooting for SPEED it means I’m in Charlotte.  However, this time SPEED came to me.  We ended up shooting three features in two days. The first day we shot a feature on the old Fairgrounds Speedway located in Nashville.  I was rocking the HDX 900, 5D, and Contour POV camera.  We were […]...

NBA TV Hires Atlanta Director of Photography for NBA Playoffs Commercial

The 2012 NBA finals may come down to tonight’s game between the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder , but Go To Team’s Atlanta based Director of Photography, Tom Wells, was there in the beginning before the finals began.  Turner owned NBA TV recently contracted Tom to oversee the technical production of their image […]...

Nashville Crew Hits The Books at Barnes And Noble Opening

Ever since the flood and Borders going out of business Nashville has been in need of book store the whole community could enjoy.  With the grand opening of the Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt that need was finally met.  I spent the day covering all the festivities of the grand opening. I was shooting on […]...

Nashville Crew Spends the Day at Siemens PET/MR Scanner Manufacturing Facility

With a HDX 900 at my side I headed out to Knoxville for Synaptic Digital.  I spent the day shooting Siemens PET/MR scanners and other technology at their manufacturing plant.  After shooting every aspect of the complicated machines we shifted gears and started to set up for an interview with Siemens CEO, Britta Fuenfstueck.   […]...

Charlotte Crew shoots CMT Insider with Tim McGraw

The Coke 600 hit CLT on May 27th and with it came a run and gun shoot for CMT Insider. The goal was to document Tim McGraw and his tour sponsor, Pennzoil Racing, as well as Tim announcing the driver intros before the race. Equipped with the HVX-200, Craig and I reported to the infield […]...

Nashville Crew Goes Behind the Scenes with the US Swim Team

Five members of the US Swim Team are starring in a new “Got Milk?” ad campaign.  I headed down to Athens, GA to shoot some behind the scenes footage of the photo shoot.  I was shooting on the HVX 200.  I spent most of the day getting shots of the swimmers drinking chocolate milk and […]...

Nashville Crew Shoots for NBC’s Rock Center

Cool things are happening in the automotive industry these days.  Lately Ford has really been pushing the boundaries of what a car can do for you besides just getting you from point A to point B.  Ford recently teamed up with Facebook to make it’s cars more social friendly via it’s Sync technology.  I headed […]...

Nashville Crew Shoots for “Unsung” in Atlanta

When I found out I would be shooting for Unsung I was pretty pumped.  I love the “behind the music” type shows.  I couldn’t wait to find out whom we were doing a show on.  It turned out we were shooting interviews with members of the group ConFunkShun.  Cool! Unsung has a specific look when […]...

LA Crew Visits The Bay Area for Fox Sports

Some cities can present a challenge for scenics – not every city has a great list of iconic shots that immediately identify it.  But some cities, like New York and Chicago, have a skyline and vistas that everyone can recognize.  And you can add San Francisco to that list.  Go To Team’s Skip Clark, based […]...