Happy new year! After a quiet and relaxing holiday break, business as usual continues here - so imagine me cracking my knuckles and cleaning my lenses in anticipation of a wonderful 2008.

Just before the holiday, I paid a visit to regular clients at the Great Neck, Long Island law firm of Garfunkel, Wild, & Travis for some additional corporate-style headshots of their newest attorneys. The headshots were consistent with the rest of their website and promotional offerings, used for their guides and listings. With recurring work such as this, I like the familiarity of the offices, their welcoming staff, and the lighting setup we decided to use back when we started the project over a year ago.

The look is clean, the lighting focuses us on the face of the (primarily healthcare) attorneys, and at this point we have a nice routine down where setup and take-down of the gear is a snap.

As it's easier and easier for me as time goes on with something like this, it's also great for my clients who expect a similar if not identical photography product as we see each other again and again over time. I have more than a few regular clients, both commercial and family, that have me back (or send assignments) regularly to do their photography, and at the beginning of a new year it's always on my mind to say "thanks!" for both the business and the trust. It's always a pleasure.

On that note, I returned again to the offices of North Shore Animal League America in Port Washington to begin what will be a long-term project of photographing various "standard" types of pups for their American Mutt-i-Grees Club, a program the League is starting to help adoptive families bring some lineage to their new family member. Eventually the photography of the dogs will be used online and in print to help you figure out just what your "Mutt-i-Gree" dog's breed history may be! It's a fun project, and as usual a great time working with the fine folks at NSALA (thanks, Devera!).