This was a typical celebrity shoot in which I had 15 minutes to do a 4-page spread for 25 ANS (Japan). So with touch ups I really had 12 minutes. I had met Jessica about a year before the shoot while I was still assisting. The photographer that I was working with had known her for quite a while. To my surprise when I walked into the suite at the Four Seasons she recognized me. Another cool aspect of the shoot was that Robert Ramos was doing her hair. Not only is Robert is one of the nicest guys, but one of the top stylists in the city. Since I'm a fanatic about time I nailed it. About a week after the shoot I ran into Jessica at a party and we talked a bit.

These images were shot in Malibu in a secret spot that Mikel Roberts and I call "field 2". There is a reason why Malibu's real estate is out of control because the light is so good there. I've shot in field 2 for a while and I like the fact that the vegetation is always changing (did I mention the light). These shots were done for a stock CD for Veer. It was collaboration with Kyle Johnson who happens to be a great beauty art director.

I've worked with Farm advertising before these towers were even built. My first assigment was a slice of life in downtown LA. You have to understand that there was hardly anything going on downtown. You couldn't even buy toilet paper after 9pm. These images were suppose to be projected in the showroom and used on the site to entice people to move downtown. I worked from 5:30am to 12am shooting my friends galleries, grand central market, golden gopher (only decent bar), parks, lofts, girls walking dogs.

Once I sent the images they asked me if it was all shot downtown. One thing I didn't know was that had scouted around two weeks before they had given me the assignment and told one another, "what is this guy going to shoot"?

Ana Henton of Mass Design (architect) once told me that those images were instrumental in the development of downtown LA.