My photo of Colorado gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper was used on Studio 12; a PBS program out of Denver.
ColoradoBIZ Magazine ran a photo of mine in two recent articles about Denver Mayor and gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper. Add two to the tear-sheets….’nice to see my work in print.
John Hickenlooper is the mayor Of Denver, Colorado and the Democratic candidate for governor of Colorado. His campaign contacted me a while back to acquire rights to photograph I had taken of him at the last Democratic National Convention. I was pleased to see that they are using my photo for both his main Bio page and for his Facebook photo.
John Hickenlooper’s campaign contacted me to acquire rights to a photo I took last year at the DNC.
‘goes to show you never know when or where a photo might be used.
The Rocky Mountain Balloon Festival started this morning. Dawn found dozens of hot air balloons strewn across the grass at Catchfield State Park just outside of Denver. I had awoken at the hitherto unknown hour of 4am to make the trek there and take some photos.
No soon than I arrived I met the very affable Scott Spencer who along with his wife Laurie have, perhaps, the coolest job in the world: hot air balloon pilots.
The Spencer were incredibly gracious, letting me take frames inside the balloon and in the basket. Scott also loaned me his 10mm fish-eye lens. I was starting to think he was pretty alright when the pièce de résistance came. Scott caught my eye and said “You want to go up”? Silly question!
Though just a tethered up and down it was fantastic…peacefully floating on air with the occasional burst of the burners for excitement.
The DNC starts in 3 days and the protests and meetings start tomorrow. As exciting as all that will be I would trade it and a lot more for a long hot air balloon ride.