Redlights and Redeyes

go irish and/or roll tide

January 9, 2013 by Chip

Sometimes the big game is just a big dud. There are blowouts every week in sportsland, but would would expect the BCS National Championship Game to be more of a – cough – game. Not so much. My challenge is to make something out of it. I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed. All [...]

Categories: chip litherland, ESPN the Magazine, news, photography, photos, sports • Tags: bcs championship, bcs national championship, Chip Litherland, color, crimson tide, drinking, fighting irish, football fans, notre dame, south florida, sun life stadium college football, tailgate, tailgating, university of alabama

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sidelines and silhouettes

December 10, 2012 by Chip

Spent yesterday sweating profusely trying to remember what winter feels like. For this Colorado kid transplanted to Florida, these 80 degree days in December are now common unlike when I was transplanted here in 2002 – ironically, the same year the Buccaneers won the Super Bowl. Yesterday’s game was full of those players ten years removed from being at the top of their game when I was just starting. The big names were back – Jon Gruden, Keyshawn Johnson, Warren [...]

Categories: Buccaneers, chip litherland, photography, public relations photographer, sports • Tags: cheerleaders, Chip Litherland, color, Florida, red, sports, Tampa, tampa bay buccaneers

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swing state blues (and reds)

November 14, 2012 by Chip

21 hours of red, white, and blue. I spent election day cross-crossing Florida a bit for the wonderful folks at The New Yorker with a really amazing crew of photographers I had no idea I was shooting alongside (Peter van Agtmael, Kenneth Jarecke, Stanley Greene, Jon Lowenstein, Andrea Bruce, Landon Nordeman, etc.) with until I starting seeing galleries coming in on their site. Florida is a crazy state. There is no denying that any weird story that happens to pop [...]

Categories: photography, photojournalism industry, photos, politics, the new yorker, Uncategorized • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, election day 2012, Florida politics, lection, Obama, politcs, presidential election, red, romney, the new yorker, white blue

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sidelines, parking lots, and nosebleeds

October 23, 2012 by Chip

Normally when I tell people that I get to shoot for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, their first reaction is “Wow, you must have the best seat in the house!” That is true, however, I spend most of the time under-using my credential to stand right next to those who ask that very question in section 328. My job helping out the awesome photo team on game day is to capture fans like these from the last two Bucs’ home games [...]

Categories: Buccaneers, chip litherland, photography, photos, sports • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, Creamsicle, fans, football, It's a Buc's Life, nfl, nfl fans, red, sidelines, tampa bay buccaneers, Tampa Bay Bucs

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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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the right coast

July 3, 2012 by Chip

Ahhh…color, beach, bikinis. I really enjoy Florida. I was recently commissioned for a five-day marketing shoot running around Cocoa Beach, Satellite Beach, Kennedy Space Center and all the places that encompass the Space Coast to show off the potpourri of touristy things to do in the area. I knew NASA. I knew Ron Jon’s. I knew a few other things from my time coming to the area as a kid every year to visit the grandparents, but gigs like this [...]

Categories: chip litherland, photography, photos, pr, public relations photographer, sports, travel, Uncategorized • Tags: beach, bikini, Chip Litherland, cocoa beach, color, Florida, florida travel photographer, kennedy space center, marketing, NASA, satellite beach, space coast, surfing, Tourism, Travel

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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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I-4 or bust

February 1, 2012 by chip

I-4 is an interesting road. Connecting Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, it slices the nub of South Florida right off the map, it provides a vast array of landmarks – strange kitschy theme parks, vasectomy billboards, and rest stop oasis after oasis. It is also fertile ground for voters and an area candidates target every election cycle. The New York Times sent me with a reporter and videographer to tackle I-4 man-on-the street style to try to find folks opinionated about [...]

Categories: in print, photography, photos, politics, promo, The New York Times, theme park • Tags: Chip Litherland, color, daytona beach, economy, Florida, foreclosure, I-4, I-4 corridor, kissimmee, lake buena vista, lakeland, Orlando, plant city, politics, Tampa, Travel

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the creamsicle strikes back

December 8, 2011 by chip

Return of the creamsicle…love it. For a team that wears red all season long, I seem to get hired by the Bucs when they throwback or go pink, but I’ll take it. I always love shooting for public relations in these situations, because I’m generally given the (paraphrasing) “Here’s the images we need, but otherwise have fun” job. I’ve covered dozens of games at this stadium over the years, but always try to find a few new things to shoot. [...]

Categories: Buccaneers, photography, photos, sports • Tags: Buccaneers, Bucs, cheerleaders, Chip Litherland, color, nfl, Panthers, Raymond James Stadium, sports, tampa bay buccaneers, throwback

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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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