60 Hour Embedded Track Pour
7pm Friday evening through 7am the following Monday. That’s what I was told when asked to shoot time-lapse of an embedded track pour. A finished time-lapse film depicting the work…
Construction Panoramas As A Tool For Communication
THE BIG PICTURE Since 2011, I've worked as a project photographer on many private and public construction sites. From my perspective as an outsider, scale always impresses me, especially when…
Short Films: Inside the Fence
A little over a year ago I began producing a series of extremely short films called “Inside the Fence”. The premise going in is that I’m on site for only…
Construction Photography as Tableau Vivant – Part One
Activities Worth Dramatizing I photograph construction scenes in unique and definitive ways: still photography, time-lapse and live-action videos. For dramatic effect, content is selected based on movement and moment, and…
The Quick Hit Construction Portrait
For me the job of photographing people, project sites and machinery is play disguised as work. Construction is intense, tedious and dangerous. But it's enjoyable to document it and the…
Women in Construction Week
Women in Construction Week – Portraits After all my years in business, it's still thrilling to get an email inquiring about availability. And when that email request involves environmental portraiture…
Branding Your Company
The Bargain I’m a bartering horse-trading kind of a guy so when I sense an opportunity to “transact a little business” I jump on it. It’s always no if you…
CIDH Construction
December 6-7, 2019 Drilling All Night Long One of the absolute joys of my life as a professional photographer is when I'm commissioned to photograph something I haven’t seen before. I…
THE CONSTRUCTION WORKER TEAM
Quality Week is the time when Walsh employees working on projects across the US gather and get recognized for their hard work, safety regimens and team play. From newbies to…
Commonalities Between Construction Progress & Street Photography
I had occasion to listen to a conversation between Bob Patterson of Street Photography magazine and Julia Dean, the founder of the Los Angeles Center for Photography. I work as…