Working on a new blog

sorry folks, working on a new blog which we hope to have up by the end of the week..........

New Blog Coming

This is the time of the year when we try to figure out what happened in 2008, lots of last minute paperwork, archiving of digital files, and making plans for 2009. First up is a new blog, say good bye to this trusty little  friend it's come time to move on to bigger and better. So for this post I leave you with me stretching my legs and taking a brake away from the computer. See you in '09 with a new blog.......

Change

Lots of stuff will be changing the first of the year, TYB Photography will now become Jared McMillen Photography (www.jaredmcmillen.com), wanted to make it easier for future clients to find us. Looks like the start of '09 is going to be busy we already have a bunch of really cool shoots set-up, no details yet but they will be awesome, hint athletes with lots of lights........ We were in the studio today goofing around, kinda fun. All the best.......

NEW? almost never.....

Been thinking of a bunch of stuff to post, just been to busy out enjoying the winter air, the white stuff is kicking my ass, sore all over, life is good. Could post a pretty picture from a past shoot, could talk about the lighting details, could talk about all the cool upcoming shoots, or I could just bee working on a new blog......... Working on kicking out something that is cool, stay tuned. Until then a couple pretty pictures.....

Fine Art Gallery Coming

Been working on sorting through all of our fine art images, in the process of loading a gallery allowing the purchase of prints, should be cool. The end of the year is pretty much wrapped just some last minute paper work and then we're out the door for some skiing.....

Huge Prints

With all the recent snow that has fallen in the Vegas area we have been busy getting up early and shooting as much scenic stuff as we can. Never said I was a landscape photographer, but we're having fun creating huge files that we hope someday will be huge prints......

Snow in Vegas BABY!

Today I decided to work from home and avoid the studio, started editing images from a recent shoot around 8a.m. and ended up sitting in front of the computer until about 2:00. The dogs started going crazy about 2:15 and I thought I'd get up to check on them and then I noticed it snow and lots of it. In all at our house we got about 5" so far and it's still coming down, pretty rare for Vegas. Only thing I could think of is playing in it so we spent a good part of the late afternoon chasing the dogs and building a snowman, I mean who knows when this will ever happen again........

Holiday Card

Thought I'd post the front of this years Holiday Card that goes out to past and future clients. We wanted something a little different this year, think we nailed it. We've been busy trying to wrap up the year and today was really I mean really hard to sit in front of the computer all day with almost 2 feet of the white stuff in the mountains......

Cars in Motion

Thought I'd post a pic I shot a couple years ago when I was doing a bunch of freelancing for a couple daily's. Seems to be a fitting image with everything that is happening in the mess of the american autos........ Can only hope something happens soon.

Meet Xyience

Shot the leaders of Xyience this morning in the studio, wanted to create something other then just the boring old head shot, we wanted to create images for them that were not only powerful but have an impact on the viewer. Awesome company and great folks to work with, we're looking forward to more in the future.......

People

We love to shoot powerful people and work hard to get the point across using just the right amount of light and from the right direction. Today we had three awesome folks in the studio creating some powerful images that will be used in a bunch of PR material for their company. More on this later just really liked this portrait..... 

Still Kicking

So I thought we were busy about a week or so ago, but this week and the coming week pretty much are gonna take the prize. This morning we finished up the shooting of the famed mouth piece for Wanderlei Silva now we'll pull them into photoshop and work a little magic. We have been gearing up and planning for a couple larger shoots that will happen before the end of the year so lots of stuff happening around here.........

Couple Days in Cali

Just returned home from a couple days of shooting in Southern California, massive day of catch up, then out shooting the next two days. Crazy time of year for us, lots and lots of shooting means lots and lots of editing. On another note today is Trish's birthday so a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to her........ More updates will be coming next week once we can dig our heads out of the sand........

FCM X-Mas

Forte Creative Media (one of our clients) approached us a couple weeks ago about creating an image for them that would be used in their Holiday promotions, ideas tossed back and forth until we decided on the final concept. Outdoor office with their toys; skiing, climbing gear, snowboarding, well yo get the point. Their ideas are so big they need to store them outside, we loved it and had a blast working with them........

Winter Is Here

Finally after suffering through the long very hot summer it seems winter has landed in the mountains near Vegas. Over the past couple of days they received about 6" of the white stuff and for us it only meant one thing, play time along the Bristolcone Trail. Couple years back we shot mountain biking for this book and it covers the Bristolcone Trail, perfect for mountain biking and hiking in the summer and snow shoeing in the winter, get out and enjoy........

P.S. we picked up a stack of trash so remember to pick up after yourself........

Happy Bird Day

Be thankful, but not to thankful, enjoy, but don't enjoy to much....... We are thankful for so many things and today I'm really thankful to share my 2nd wedding anniversary with my with.......

New Rep, Wonderful Machine

We are very proud to announce today the joining with Wonderful Machine, in their words "Wonderful Machine is a web portal dedicated to connecting North America's most talented photographers with the industry's most discerning clients." Wonderful Machine will serve as a rep for our work and also a portal driving new and fresh clients to our site. We are really excited to share this news as both Trish and I feel that joining with Wonderful Machine is a huge step forward.............

Jared & Trish McMillen/TYB Photography

Lots and lots of things have been happening, some small and some really big, lots of really exciting stuff, not to mention the big stuff your face day is coming. Tonight my partner in crime and lovely wife Trish took a pic of me for some exciting news we'll share in a day or so.

FCM

One super rad company and three really motivated women with an awesome leader and you have Forte Creative Media, we spent a couple hours today working with FCM to photograph some ideas Stephanie Forte had for the Holidays and some marketing for her company. Over the past year we have worked with Stephanie and her company on several different shoots, Steph is not only a really good and smart business women but a very well respected climber, the two previous times we photographed Steph were for U.S. News and World Report and National Geographic Adventure. We wish FCM all the best and thanks for thinking us us on so many occasions........ Little behind the scenes from today......

Bad Ass mouth Guard

This is one really bad ass mouth guard, and this was the main reason we shot Wonderlei Silva last week. The mouth guard is totally state of the art, and is leagues above others with a really amazing concept behind the design, to put it mildly I was blown away by the concept and how it will benefit all athletes.......