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This assignment was a fun technical one that allowed the nerd in Tim to geek out a bit. It was for a New York Times story about using lasers to keep birds away from turkey barns in the hopes of keeping any spread of the avian flu from reaching the turkeys at the farm. We rarely use tripods but this assignment screamed for the use of a tripod. It wasn’t until it was completely dark that the green laser beam became visible to the naked eye and camera. From there it was a matter of setting a long exposure and trying to predict the pattern of the laser. It turns out it’s not as easy as one would hope but I guess that’s you keep the birds on their toes. Eventually a pattern was established and it was time to play with the long exposures and occasionally a car would drive by the farm and paint the side of the turkey barns with their headlights providing just a subtle amount of light to bring even more visual interest to the frame. Overall it was a fun night using a tripod and feeling like a hobby photographer who dabbles with nighttime exposures. It was a fun one to play with! Photographed for the @nytimes
17 May 2024
Warm weather must be back in Minnesota as our desire to be on social media is even less these days. We’re super behind on sharing work, which will probably continue to be the case as bike rides and playing in dirt in our garden will always beat out the IG algorithm. Here’s a quick one for the New Yorker from awhile back.
We had a great time collaborating with Alan for this portrait assignment. Working with fellow creatives is one of our favorite things as they usually aren’t shy about trying different things or even bringing their own ideas to the table. Alan is a talented musician who sadly lost his wife, Mimi, who was also his creative partner. The two created magical music as the band The Low. Alan was very generous with his time and it was great chatting with him at length about his creative process, his wife, playing alongside his son, and the Cajun Finn at Northern Waters Smokehaus. We honestly could not have asked for a better day or conversation and we only wish it wasn’t the death of his wife that brought us together. Photographed for The New Yorker.
29 Apr 2024
Backyard hockey from the drone for the @nytimes
25 Mar 2024
South Dakota. The low budget version of Mount Rushmore.
19 Mar 2024
Grapes. Lots of grapes. We always love looking for details on assignments and all these different varieties of grapes were screaming at us to be documented. Photographed for the Smithsonian.
08 Mar 2024
From our personal project - We Got Spirit.
06 Mar 2024
Steve going for a casual Sunday drive around the lake. From when winter felt like winter from our personal project Frozen Speed.
01 Mar 2024
We can still feel the warm sun skimming across the horizon on this lovely fall assignment. We traveled to Missouri to document a vineyard that is doing something nobody else is doing. They’re creating wines using only grapes native to North America. Also rare is the day we see 14 of our photos used in print, but we were delighted when we saw it! Thanks @qnardi for our best smelling and tasting assignment of the year! Photographed for Smithsonian Magazine.
28 Feb 2024
Photographing backyard hockey rinks has been one of Tim’s favorite things to photograph during the winter ever since his first trip to Hockeytown USA aka Warroad, MN. So we were thrilled when we got this assignment out in Wisconsin to document a backyard rink. The laughter kids playing shinny outside combined with the sound of hockey skates carving through the ice are some best sounds of winter in the north. It’s a bit of magic to see it all come together on an outdoor rink and it’s even better when it happens to be in your backyard. A fun one for The New York Times and thankfully we had one week of cold enough weather before the rink turned back to grass.
19 Feb 2024
Ben after a morning surf session on Lake Superior.
We were hoping to work on our ice surfing project a ton this winter but Mother Nature had different plans.
14 Feb 2024
The Art Shanties. The horizontal edition.
One of our favorite seasons to photograph here in Minnesota is the winter. Sadly, this winter has been nothing but a disappointment with warm temps and only 7 inches of total snow. Boring! We did have one week of cold weather that felt like true winter weather and thankfully, that was just enough to photograph the art shanties before they they had to be pulled off the ice again because of warming temps. When we first moved here, the art shanties were one of the first winter events we went to. It made us realize the best way to survive winter here is to embrace it. This assignment was exactly what we needed to be reminded of how important it is to take advantage of every season we are in - in life and weather. Photographed for the @nytimes
07 Feb 2024
One of our favorite seasons to photograph here in Minnesota is the winter. Sadly, this winter has been nothing but a disappointment with warm temps and only 7 inches of total snow. Boring! We did have one week of cold weather that felt like true winter weather and thankfully, that was just enough to photograph the art shanties before they they had to be pulled off the ice again because of warming temps. When we first moved here, the art shanties were one of the first winter events we went to. It made us realize the best way to survive winter here is to embrace it. This assignment was exactly what we needed to be reminded of how important it is to take advantage of every season we are in - in life and weather.
Thanks @marysaleah for the assignment and lovely edit. Photographed for the @nytimes Link to the story in our bio.
05 Feb 2024
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