Redlights and Redeyes

great scot

July 10, 2012 by Chip

Through a flood of whisky, losing golf balls, and navigating nightclubs I was able to make a couple photos during a recent trip to celebrate a fellow photog’s bachelor party in Scotland. That party happened to be in some really beautiful country in Edinburgh and the island of Islay, so it was tough to leave the camera behind. In fact, kind of impossible. One of these days, I’m going to go on vacation from my camera…but probably not. [...]

Categories: chip litherland, photography, photos, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: 2012, bars, Chip Litherland, chip litherland photography, color, edinburgh, great britain, islay, olympics, scotland, travel photographer, uk, whiskey, wiskey

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¡viva la mexico!

February 23, 2012 by chip

I don’t know how a photographer can ever actually go on vacation – it might take a cement room devoid of any color in Des Moines for me to actually leave a camera aside and take a “vacation” from “work.” I constantly find it amazing we can call photography work. Oh well, let me load up the carousel with some slides and make you sit through my vacation photos. Here I was in Mexico…then here’s that colorful wall I waited [...]

Categories: chip litherland, photography, photos, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: beach, Chip Litherland, color, economy, Mexio, peso, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Mita, Sayulita, surf, travel vacation Mexico tourism

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legoland florida (aka primary color heaven)

October 28, 2011 by chip

Red, Yellow, Blue, Green…any possible color you can think of. Everywhere. Literally. I can’t think of really a better place to feed my addiction to color than LEGOLAND Florida, and luckily I get to call them a regular client. The gig, which I haven’t really talked much about out here in Socialmedialand, fell in my lap from a great recommendation from another photographer in LA who called me to cover their initial press conference (last photo). The historic, but [...]

Categories: in print, LEGOLAND, news, photojournalism industry, photos, pr, public relations photographer, random gratuitousness, travel, Uncategorized, wedding

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beach bum

October 10, 2011 by chip

Just stay on the sand. I love these kinds of assignments…and these type of clients. Bay Magazine is visually helmed by Bruce and Suzette Moyer up at the St. Petersburg Times, and they do an amazing job with their photo play in the high-end travel/lifestyle magazine every month. My gig was about perfect – just drive the coastline of Florida from Ft. DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg to Clearwater Beach, stop, head to the beach and make [...]

Categories: Bay Magazine, in print, photos, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: beach, beaches, Chip Litherland, color, economy, Florida, florida travel, sand, st. petersburg, sun, Tampa, Tourism, vacation, water

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50mm on the 50 yard line

August 26, 2011 by chip

If there’s one thing I actually really miss about my newspaper job is that Friday night ritual of destroying my jeans one knee at a time, the battle of grainy photos shot on unreal ISO’s versus Noise Ninja, and cursing the roster for not having that one player with the number you need. Ahhh, high school football. I popped out to this game tonight at Booker High as a visual vacation from staring at my screen all day [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, sports • Tags: 50mm, booker high, braden river high, Chip Litherland, color, high school football, prep football, sarasota, sunset football

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on self-assignments (with a side of mud, booze, and rednecks)

July 31, 2011 by chip

If you don’t like the assignments you are given, make your own. Shooting for free is the kiss of death in this industry, but there’s a time for everything. Sometimes, a self-assignment is worth it. If you are a staffer, the daily grind of assignments can beat you down with every building mug and press conference. If you are a freelancer, the times when the phone doesn’t ring can seem like an eternity. I suggest one of two things: either [...]

Categories: archive, photojournalism industry, photos, promo, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: beer, belly flop, camo, Chip Litherland, confederate, east dublin, Georgia, mud, photojournalism, red, redneck summer games, rednecks, self-assignments

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sunsets and silhouettes

July 31, 2011 by chip

I spent the week doing a couple things I don’t do very often – disconnecting, actually going to the beach for fun (instead of a shoot), and putting my camera down for a while. The eye candy one night this week was too insane to play around in for a few frames. For as much as I use them, I always have to look up the proper spelling of “silhouettes,” and it still looks wrong…and for as close as Siesta [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: chip litherland. cliches, color, god's light, money light, public beach sunset, sarasota, siesta key, silhouette, storm

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mactopsy

July 22, 2011 by chip

Now for something completely random. The insides of a old Apple blueberry G3 I dug out of the shed before taking it to the tree stump and driving a 4″ nail through the hard drive on the way to its burial. R.I.P. ol’ blue. Tweet

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness • Tags: apple, blueberry, Chip Litherland, computer guts, details, g3, hard drive, mac, out with the old, technology

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hey hot shot!

July 21, 2011 by chip

Got a nice little write up from the fine folks over at Jen Bekman Gallery and 20×200 for the upcoming Hey Hot Shot! competition. I have no idea if I’ll make the cut or not, but it was cool to read someone else’s take on a project I literally do just for fun when I’m bored or in need of a visual reset. Thanks – love the site! Tweet

Categories: accidental rothko, contests, in print, news, photos, promo, random gratuitousness, sprawlscapes • Tags: 20x200, accidental rothko, Chip Litherland, color, cover up, cover-ups, graffiti, hey hot shot

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summer print sale

July 21, 2011 by chip

Just added a new batch of signed art prints (available in 8×10, 11×14, 16×20, and 20×30) on my Photoshelter site – give your walls some love from Chip Litherland Photography! Here! Old prints still up (here). Tweet

Categories: accidental rothko, photos, promo, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, fine art, Florida, photo prints, print, prints, Travel, wall art

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