"Winter in Acadia" has been updated

I've just updated my website with new images from my ongoing project to document Acadia National Park, during and after winter storms.


It's hard to explain the awe & respect that I feel when I'm watching & photographing the angry, roiling ocean from a snowy, rocky ledge in Acadia National Park during a blizzard. 


It took four years of trying to make it happen, but I was finally able to get on top of Cadillac Mt. to shoot sunrise. This was one of the essential images, as the summit of Cadillac is the first place in the US where the sunshine hits at sunrise. The 3.5 mile road road to the top is closed in the winter, so I had two options: start snowshoeing through new snow (i.e. deep!) at 3 am, with a camera backpack, tripod and other essentials; or I could try and find someone with a snowmobile. It took a year or two, but I finally found a local guy named "Nick" who I have hired a few times to take me and my gear to the top.


Hopefully the images on my website will show the energy & drama during the storm & the quiet stillness after the storm departs.


Your comments are welcomed.
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My focus....

Recently, I have  re-focused my attention to myself & my work.

In the next week, I will be posting blurbs and images from recent projects for some new and ongoing clients, so please check back.

A Walk in the Woods

If you know where to look, Spring is a perfect time to find the remains of a brutally cold & snowy Winter; or from hungry predators, like coyotes

On Saturday afternoon I headed  to one of my favorite, largely remote, wooded areas close to home, and in about four hours time, I was rewarded with a few little treasures, which were captured with my iPhone:

Skull & rack of an eight-point buck (as found)

Smaller Skunk or Raccoon?

A "shed"

Ribs & Vertebrae (Any guesses)

Flexibility on location

Being flexible is something that I learned many years ago, and I was reminded of this with a recent assignment.
A magazine for doctors had located me on the Find A Photographer (FAP) feature of  ASMP , and they wanted me to shoot a portrait of a young physician at Yale University Hospital. The thrust of the article was about "environmentally responsible initiatives in medical practices".
With the subject-a very nice doctor who I'll call Dr. "S",  I scouted locations at the hospital about a week before the shoot, and we found a few areas that would work. Not great, but ok, given the parameters. his year has been quite snowy & cold, so shooting inside was our only viable option.
On the afternoon of the shoot, I arrived early to make sure that I had enough time to meet with the very helpful Media Relations person at the Hospital, whose name is Mark. At some point in our conversation before the subject arrived, he mentioned another area of the hospital, with "great light".
We had time to spare, so off we went. Mark was right, and our timing would be perfect for the time of day, so we contacted Susan to let her know about the new location.

Naturally diffused sunlight was complimented with a bit of fill light from a single Dynalight head & a soft bank. Some of the greenery was there & I borrowed the plant that Susan held in some of the images.
The happy client chose the image above.

Brian Lanker, Photographer & Filmmaker

Brian Lanker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and who built an incredible career working for Life, Sports Illustrated & National Geographic, has died. His photograph of his future wife giving birth via the Lamaze method won the 1973 Pulitzer for Photography while he was working at The Topeka Capital-Journal, with Rich Clarkson as his photography editor.
He later published the beautiful book of B & W photographs, "I Dream A World:Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America"


To read more about his amazing life: Brian Lanker, 63, Loses Brief Battle With Cancer

© Brian Lanker