Center Editor's Choice 3rd Place Award!

I am honored and thrilled to learn that my work received 3rd place Editor's Choice in the 2013 Center Awards international competition!

Recent Book Covers

CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTOR: NICOLE DE LAS HERAS



CLIENT: EERDMAN'S BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
ART DIRECTOR: GAYLE BROWN

Hopper Series

The second image in the Edward Hopper series.

Some Recent Personal Work

The first in a series of images based on the paintings of Edward Hopper.

This is a reworked outtake from a year-old photo session. I moved the model from Florida to Central Park.

Murder Mystery Cover

Death Where The Bad Rocks Live by C.M. Wendelboe is a murder mystery set on an Indian Reservation in the badlands of South Dakota. For the cover I created a montage by merging a table top still life (foreground) with a stock photo (background). The hardest part, though, was convincingly blending the hanging Dreamcatcher, shot separately, with the rest of the montage.





Stock photo of Badlands © Robert Pears

CLIENT: BERKLEY BOOKS
ART DIRECTOR: RITA FRANGIE

Printed Louis L’Amour Covers

So for the past year and a half or so I have been working on this amazing project creating new cover images for the entire library of Louis L'Amour western novels and short stories. There are about 120 total, I have finished 14 so far. Here are the first seven covers as printed.

CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTORS: BEAU L'AMOUR, SCOTT BIEL






photo of riders: © Robert Plotz








photo of cowboy on horse: © Daniel Lobo
photo of extra horse: © Jodi Jacobson

Recent Louis L’Amour Cover Images

Two more cover images for the Louis L’Amour western novels that Random House is repackaging. Above is Lonigan (thank you Cathie Bleck, for loaning me the awesome cow skull). I never knew how to tie a noose before—it is amazing what you can learn on the internet. Below is the photo montage for Law of the Desert Born.



The background desert and vulture are stock images that I combined with the boot I photographed.



desert image: © Jim Feliciano iStock Photo
vulture: © Peter Malsbury iStock Photo

CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTORS: BEAU L‘AMOUR, SCOTT BIEL