Category Archives: People

Emma Kitchen

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Earlier this year I was lucky enough to photograph Emma Kitchen for a feature in Middlebury College’s alumni magazine.

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Douglas Brooks, Vergennes, Vermont

Douglas Brooks in his 1947 International pickup truck, Vergennes, Vermont

Douglas Brooks is an accomplished woodworker, boat builder, and a connoisseur of traditional cultures and methods, especially those in danger of being lost. He’s apprenticed to five different Japanese boat [...]

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The Dalai Lama Visits Vermont

Visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to Middlebury College

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama recently paid Middlebury College a visit and I had the good luck to photograph him and his entourage. You can view the gallery of [...]

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The Drop-In Brewing Company for BeerAdvocate Magazine

BeerAdvocate Magazine #68, Featuring Steve Parkes of the Drop-In Brewing Company

Last month, BeerAdvocate Magazine hired me to spend some time with brewing guru Steve Parkes at his newly-opened Drop-In Brewing Company in Middlebury, Vermont.

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Always Have a Backup Plan

Middlebury College's Womens Cross-Country team on a training run on Creek Road

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go wrong.” – Eddie Izzard, paraphrasing poet Robert Burns. Mouse or man, if you’re shooting a lit portrait on location you [...]

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Peering at the Atlantic

Nassau and Freeport,  (July 31, 2012) - Connor Simison on a cruise vacation aboard the Carnival Fantasy, with destinations in Nassau and Freeport, Bahamas. (Photo © 2012 Brett Simison)

Please don’t say manana if you don’t mean it I have heard those words for so very long Don’t try to describe the ocean if you’ve never seen it Don’t [...]

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Lee Beckwith, Weybridge, Vermont

Blacksmith Lee Beckwith, Weybridge, Vermont

Weybridge, VT – Blacksmith and ferrier Lee Beckwith sits on the tailgate of his pickup truck and mobile forge with his feet propped up on his portable anvil. Beckwith comes [...]

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The Chateau, Middlebury College, Vermont

Middlebury College's 2011 Commencement Weekend

Middlebury, VT – A lone student appears in the window of the Chateau on Middlebury College’s campus during 2011 Commencement Weekend. (Photo © 2011 Brett Simison)

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Winter Comes to Breadloaf

Middlebury College's Breadloaf Campus / Rikert Nordic Center

The record-low snowfall of the winter of 2011-2012 has been tough on New England ski areas, such as Middlebury College’s Rikert Nordic Center in Ripton, Vermont. But a series of [...]

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The White Background Treatment

Track athlete Evan Auguste demonstrates his style.

Lighting on location usually means finding an existing scene and mixing the available light with a little strobe to shape the light just the way we want it. But often [...]

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