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How long has your photographer worked with trucks?

Passion. What exactly is passion? It’s a lifelong obsession. It’s that wide-eyed, child-like exuberance of knowing you get to do it all over…again. How long has your photographer been working with trucks? Don Johnston started playing with trucks as a wee lad. Over the years the trucks got bigger. And while he honed his craft they got even bigger…Click here if you don't see the movie

 

Monstrous hunks of rolling steel, glass and iron rise majestically. Check that load. Tighten those chains. When you’re in the real world your hood is the boardroom table. Every assignment is like the unbridled joy of unwrapping a present on your birthday.

There are an awful lot of photographers out there. How to choose? Who to choose? It’d be awfully hard to find somebody with more sheer exhuberance. Just like in the video, Don Johnston is the consummate professional truck photographer. Make passionate pictures, hire this guy. Get him out of my hair...Please.

Don Johnston shoots trucks. It doesn't matter whether they are big trucks, medium trucks, little trucks or itsy-bitsy trucks. Hire Don. He’ll tell your next story like it’s never been seen before.

Cheers
Mike Morawski
Chief Instigation Officer

How did your race photographer prepare for this season?

Here’s what Don Johnston did. Listen closely and in the background maybe you’ll hear singing… 

“Get your motor runnin'
Head out off the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way”

 

The acrid smell of AV gas burns your nostrils while simultaneously being blinded by waves of smoke from screeching tires. Driver's twinkling smiles are betrayed by the tension etched in their weather worn faces. Steely nerves. Risk and reward. In the pits, behind the staging lights and with the fans every Don Johnston image captures a story begging to be told.

Hanging out a window, doing the bump and run, all while dancing at 200 mph on a ribbon of asphalt is just a day at the office. You’ll see the huge grin spread over Don’s face…after the adrenalin wears off. “I like smoke and lightnin', Heavy metal thunder, Racing in the wind, And the feeling that I'm under.”

Don Johnston shoots racing and it doesn't matter whether it's cars, bikes, cows, pigs or boats. Hire Don. He’ll tell your next story like it’s never been seen before.

See more of Don Johnston's tasty Treats.

 

Cheers,
Mike Morawski
Chief Instigation Officer

 

Portraits in Motion and a Burning Man Traveler

Where’s Don Johnston? He’s where the action is. It doesn’t matter whether he’s hanging precariously off the side of a mountain or standing his ground as 135 horses bear down, drawing a bead on him. No matter the season or the subject matter you can absolutely count on one consistent truth. You will always find Don in the thick of it. See more of Don Johnston's portfolios.

Nigel Harniman took the road less traveled on his trip from Phoenix to LA recently. Just so happens that Burning Man was winding down and he bumped into this kindly, weather worn traveler. After the portrait they each took a different fork in the road. Funny how that works isn’t it? See Nigel Harniman's book.

Mike Morawski
Chief Instigation Officer

Congratulations to the APA 2011 Photography Competition winners

Congratulations to the APA 2011 Photography Competition winners. There is a lot of really nice beautiful work here. What I can't figure out is why there weren't any winners from Detroit? Doesn't anyone here belong to APA? Do you have to belong to APA to enter?  Are we afraid to enter or do we not see the value of entering national competitions. Or maybe we just don't want to spend the money? At any rate, I can think of half a dozen Detroit/ Michigan photographers who have images as good if not better than the winners. And why do a couple of photographers win in more than one category? Are their images that good? Was there a lack of depth in the entries for those categories? Take a look at the awards list and judge for yourself. One image that clearly deserved its award was Best of Show by Saverio Truglia. I love this image. Lighting, composition and color palette all work together and tell a great short story. And the use of the PAN AM logo was a brainwave. Take a peek below.

However I digress. Let’s get back to my original question. Why aren't there any winners from Detroit/ Michigan? I'm interested to know if anyone has opinions or thoughts on this. Anyone?

 
Cheers,
Mike Morawski
Chief Instigator