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Eclipse


I shot this book cover a while back, it's finally out and doing quite well - It beat Harry Potter!
I also shot the first cover in the series "Twilight".

Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's series about a girl whose boyfriend is a vampire, enters the list today at No. 1, edging out Hallows (No. 2)

empire state bldg


all over that cityscape thang

cat burglar

Redeye


What's so bad about redeye?

hangover

The only good copycat is a ____ copycat.



A copycat (also copy-cat or copy cat) is a person (or animal, or photographer) that mimics or repeats the behavior of another.

feel the burn

John Kerry


From a recent shoot with John Kerry...

black eye

Happy Valentine's Day


Valenntine's Day, some of us love it, some hate it and the rest look upon it with amused cynicism. As an image maker, it is this dichotomy that interests me and inspired the photograph above.
Personally, I look forward to Valentine's Day every year. Diapered cupids spewing arrows, frilly heart shaped boxes of candy and trinkets of love galore.... a holiday that can pack in so much tacky goodness can't be bad!

more valentine info

swedish sushi


How do you make sushi even more yummy?
Forget about salmon or tuna, try swedish fish!

umm, I love Mark Twain

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

Merry Christmas

Memphis, TN

desperately seeking intern


www.whattheduck.net

I'm looking for an intern one or two days a week, please email me if interested....

beginning to look a lot like...


ever step on an elf's shoe? Me neither but I really want to... I really want to.

my new favorite joke


Q: What's brown and sticky?

A: A stick

Happy Halloween


and I don't care if it was ten days ago!
Great photo-comic site.... www.whattheduck.net

Election Day*

Don't forget to vote!

Westside Yo!

Two scary Joes

Burger anger



I have been busy shooting some personal work and here is the latest photo - Anger. The model's motivation was that he burned his hamburger and is very angry at the burger. It was a lot of fun, so much so that I have included a "behind the scenes" video...



Special thanks to Dale the producer and videographer.

The King...

Happy 4th!

website update


My website has been updated. Some images were added and some taken away, others were moved to the archive. The basic layout is still the same although the categories have changed. There will be another update coming in four to five weeks so stay tuned...

www.hagadonephotography.com

cloudscapes


So yeah I admit it, I'm one of those jerks on the airplane taking pictures out of the window. Maybe I have annoyed you with the incessant shutter clicking or possibly blinded you by opening the shade during the in-flight movie. I just can't help myself.
I'm putting together a new series of "cloudscapes" and here is the first. I'll have them printed large, maybe 30 x 40.
I wonder if this has been done before...hmmm?..:)

sunny LA



baby robins

I shoot people for money


90% of my commercial work is photographing people, even in my personal work humans are the dominant subject. Don't get me wrong, shooting people is my thing, it's what I do and I love it but sometimes it's nice to do the opposite. I have been working on two personal projects (among others) for the past year, one on Champagne and the Champagne region of France and the other on trees. Essentially landscape, architecture and interiors. The tree project has overlapped with another, "symmetry". This is the most recent piece.

blue room

yum!

LAX



While waiting for a flight in L.A. I was entertaining myself by taking some photos. Here are two photographs of the same scene but with a different lens/treatment, which do you prefer?

baby on 10th Ave.

Wisconsin


Joe and I just returned from several days of tavel photographing an assignment. Wisconsin was the first stop.
While there I found a great deal on this phat GT....


err... ummm


This is Joe my assistant. He is not insane although this photo may make you think otherwise.

spooky forest


A new image from my tree series...

lust


One image from a recent test...

The gambler...



From a recent shoot with Chidi Nobi. I worked with a fantastic stylist on this and she really captured the theme of the hip hop gambler. This is part of a new series that I am working on, the "seven deadly sins", this is of course "greed". Yeah, I know the seven sins thing has been done before but hey, what hasn't been done before?! It's been a fun project thus far. We just shot lust last week (be patient it's coming) so there are five sins to go!

A few more...


Blog, what blog....

It has been about a month since I posted last... a busy month to say the least.
It's been nonstop shooting for the past few weeks. When not working on assignments I have been testing, here is an imge from a recent test. Much more to come - stay tuned....