these pictures! Perhaps it is best to have someone who doesn’t live here look with a fresh eye…” Maybe so, but each time I drive more familiar roads out west here there is always something new I was too busy with other thoughts to notice the last time I passed by. I believe instead, it is within the process of collaborating with someone that I am provided a new set of lenses through which to see the familiar – through their ideas, at this time, this day. I sort of stumbled into becoming a location scout by having started out as a photographers' assistant back in 1982. I was working with various shooters here locally in Phoenix trying to learn enough to enable myself to build a book that I would feel comfortable showing anyone, in any marketplace. One day I met Susan Volk who was in the studio styling a project I was assisting on. She needed someone to help her out on an upcoming television commercial she was booked to do art direction for.

I found the production of moving-pictures absolutely fascinating: the scale, the attention to detail – most importantly to me, the profoundly different use of lighting. (And I must admit, being used to having brown-bagged it for lunch most days on the photo projects I had been part of at the time I was simply amazed by the spread on the craft service table, the fabulous catered meals – 3 a day! Then, at the end of the day, at least back in the '80's, a big cooler full of brewskies was rolled out to help the crew mellow after a day of busting butt!!! That tradition has long-since gone away.)

I learned so much by observing the gaffer and the cameraman while helping Susan in the art department dressing sets during production that my work took on an