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Sheep, Paonia Colorado for Bloomberg Businessweek.
Kerry Noonan, an organic farmer in Paonia, Colorado for Bloomberg Businessweek. Full story here.
Nobody ever shouts out their assistants anymore but I’m going to make it cool again. Thanks to my dear friend Evan who isn’t a photographer but can hold a damn good reflector and drove that rented chevy aveo like he was travis pastrana on a rally course.
Bobby Reedy for the aforementioned fracking story for Businesweek.
Bobby is one of my favorite people I have ever photographed/hung out with on a story. He operates pretty much the only filling/fix it station in town. I was told he was the guy with the local knowledge and to touch base with him as soon as I got there. I showed up at his shop at 6:30 in the morning and drank coffee/tar with him as a stream of local good old boys came by to shoot the shit before the days work started. There were three generations of Reedys running the shop. It was pretty cool. He still pumps everybody’s gas for them. While he may seem like a character from the Andy Griffith show, he could curse like almost nobody i’ve ever heard.
I spent two days in the beautiful town of Paonia Colorado for Businessweek last month for a story about the battle over fracking coming into the area. This was one of the best shoots of my life. Not just because it was interesting and pretty looking but the people I encountered in Paonia were top notch. I didn’t meet anybody I didn’t like there. Everybody was incredibly helpful and totally willing to help me out. Add that to the incredible, healthy, local food I got to eat most of the time and I was totally living the dream. I would shoot for 16 hours (which I did) a day all day every day if it was always like this. Check out the gallery on my website.
