From Baths to Beers: Superior Bathhouse Brewery

July 11, 2016 in Advertising Photography, Food Photography

If you haven't visited Hot Springs lately, you're missing out on quite a gem. Superior Bathhouse Brewery is located on Historic Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park and is home to Hot Springs' first Craft Beer Tasting Room, on-site Brewery.

I spent an afternoon back in April photographing some of the most popular brews and non-brews that Superior has to offer. In the photo above is their Killer Irish Red served in a tankard.

For the dark beer lovers, on your next visit you can try (above) Foul Play Stout served in a pint glass showcasing artwork by local tattoo artist and founding Foul Play Cabaret Member, Doris Night.

For the blonde beer lovers, try Hitchcock Spring Kölsch, seen below.

Another popular beer is Chaudfontaine Houblon (below). Chaudfontaine is a Belgian town located in the province of Liège and when translated literally, Chaudfontaine means Hot Spring.

For those looking for the perfect nibble to pair with their beer, one of Superiors most popular items is their Southern Black-Eyed Pea Hummus served with pretzel chips. I can eat this stuff by the bowl.

Or you can try their Superior Plate. Served at dinner, the Superior Plate featured Arkansas-own Petit Jean seasonal meats and Kent Walker artisan cheeses. In the photo it's paired with Chaudfontaine Houblon.

Looking for the sweeter, more indulgent drinks at Superior? A local favorite is their root beer float. Superior uses Arkansas-made Yarnell's Ice Cream serving over 40 floats daily and going through more than 50 gallons of ice cream weekly. We went through a few tries to get the right photo and we tasted as we photographed.

Quality control...right???

Want to see how they make beer at Superior Bathhouse Brewery? Check back for that blog post in a few weeks!

Here's a few BTS photos.

Video project for Georgia Pacific.

June 01, 2016 in Video Production, Video Work

How do you highlight the capabilities of a product before the product has been manufactured?

You build it in 3D of course!

We worked directly with Steele+ out of Atlanta, to help Georgia Pacific create a marketing video to showcase the highlights of this new product before it made it to the market.

After taking on a project like this you see why it takes years to make an animated movie. Big budget movies have hundreds of animators and artists working on them. We had two. This turned out to be a great collaboration project working with the talented Jeff Holsted and Chris Roe, two artists we have known and worked with for years.

This project took about five weeks to complete once we were given a script and a direction to take it in. Once that was in place, you fine tune the script, lay-out the direction and break in down into small pieces.

It's a lot of work, but the client was amazed at the final result, which is all you can ask for.

Elite Duck Calls | Hand-Painted Calls

May 04, 2016 in Commercial Photography, Advertising Photography, Product Photography, E-Commerce

I spent a few days in the studio last week working for Elite Duck Calls. I photographed several of their new calls including a series of new, hand-painted calls.

These are simply gorgeous.

Elite's new line of calls features hand-painted Labrador Retrievers in both black and golden with the customers choice of tone: Freak, Cache or Edge. Elite also offers three styles of mallards: both a drake and hen sitting and flying mallard. Below are just a few of these examples.

Calls will be for sale at the end of May and will be available at Mack's Prairie Wings in Stuttgart. These are a perfect gift (Father's Day is next month) for the avid hunter in your family or anyone who collects duck calls.

I always love working with Elite Duck Calls because each time I photograph their calls, it's fascinating to see how beautiful works of art these are.