Redlights and Redeyes

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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spf

June 14, 2011 by chip

Well, it was go to the beach and be the only dude wearing jeans in nearly 100 degree weather day. Life as a Florida photojournalist could be rougher, I guess, but for a simple story about new F.D.A. regulations for the marketing of sunscreen (running in tomorrow’s New York Times) you would think finding someone doing just that would be easier. It was either run around with a telephoto and look like a creep or get up close and run [...]

Categories: photos, The New York Times, travel • Tags: beach bum, bikini, burn, Chip Litherland, f.d.a., fda, Florida, sand, sarasota, siesta beach, spf, sun, sun screen, sunblock, sunscreen, tan, tanning lotion, Travel, vacation

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coloroholic

April 22, 2011 by chip

If color was a drug, I’d be a total junkie. I don’t know what it is, but for me just driving and finding a new wall to shoot against is my addiction. Sometimes I won’t even shoot, I’ll just shake my head, mutter to myself about how cool it would be with a person in it, and drive on. I always make a note of it on my phone and return for that magical time when some kid with a [...]

Categories: photos, random gratuitousness, travel • Tags: bahamas, boat, Chip Litherland, color, Harbour Island, Lone Tree, ocean, Tourism, Travel, vacation, water

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vacation crasher

November 27, 2010 by chip

I’ve said it before, but my favorite assignments usually involve getting a call from an editor, asking me to go to place “x” for a few days and shooting “whatever.” Luckily, this time place “x” was a private island off the coast of southeastern Georgia for a multiple page spread in Bay Magazine – a high-end lifestyle mag put out by the St. Petersburg Times. Little St. Simons Island is 10,000 acres of mostly untouched marshes and beaches with a [...]

Categories: Bay Magazine, photos, travel • Tags: Bay, beach, bicycling, birding, camping, chip, color, Florida, Georgia, hiking, litherland, Little St. Simons Island, Magazine, nature, St. Simons Island, Tourism, Travel, vacation, wildlife

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