My agent in New York-received a request for me to shoot James Patterson-writer for SonntagsBlick magazine in Zurich. I have shot for Ringer a media company in Germany many times and this assignment was for their Sunday magazine. We had 90 minutes with James Paterson to conducted a interview and to shoot portraits and candid photos at his home in Palm Beach. My assistant and I picked up the writer at the airport and drove to James Patterson’s estate. He was an excellent subject and very hospitable to our team during the 90 minutes.

I was able to get a good selection of candid and portraits around his estate during our limited time with him. Here is the article and some extra images from the shoot.

Some behind the scene shots

Over the Holidays, I received a new piece of video equipment that allows me more flexibility to capture video from tight spots. I was vacation at the Everglades National Park, camping, fishing and boating around the tip of Florida. I decided to try it out for the first time by having it dangle of my boat going 35 mph zooming in and out of the mangroves and cruising with the dolphins. It worked out great and I am looking forward to using it more.

Check out the video I created.

A couple of the images we created.

This assignment was to create stock imagery to be used in store displays, collateral and online advertising for the franchise chain. On this assignment we had to work around the busy store schedule and to shoot on a weekend so they wouldn’t miss school. Back in college, I was a supervisor at a TCBY store, so this shoot brought back some memories. Little did I know that 20 years later, I still have the magically soft serve touch able to pour the perfect serving. This

These are just a few shoots that we created.

I was shooting a still campaign for Burger King and this is a short clip of what we created with some of the props.

This tantalizing video will make you crave a warm cup of Hot Chocolate and comfy couch. We were shooting a print ad for Burger King and this is some extra video we shot and edited

I received a call from my agent at Aurora Select in NYC that Ringier Publishing’s Blick Magazine a Swiss magazine wanted me to photograph their feature story for there 9/11 issue. Getting to photograph these 9/11 stories is always a bit emotional. I get to hear first hand personal accounts or conspiracy theories about that day’s events. I was living in NYC during the attacks, Luckily… I was out of town when the attacks happened since I received a call @ 8:55 am 9/11/01 from Monica at Getty to go down to photograph the World Trade center… a plane just crashed into the building and they wanted me to cover it. At that time no one new what the future was going to bring. It would have taken me 45+ minutes via subway to get from the upper east side down to World Trade Center stop on the subway…about 10 minutes before the first tower collapsed. A photographer was killed covering this historic event. Shooting the days after in NYC , the images and smells are etched in stone in my mind.

It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years. I have shot multiple stories in New York and Florida on 9/11 and how it effected people’s everyday lives. It is still hard to watch the images of the aftermath of the attacks on T.V.

Rudi Dekker is one of the victims that people blame with out knowing the facts…it’s just easier for people to judge and point blame without hearing the facts. Rudi did not know what these students intentions were… Do you blame the person who teaches the drunk driver to drive? No. But Rudi is a victim with his life forever changing for the bad. Here is the article how it was published in German

This assignment is another 9/11 experience that I will remember for a long time. Here is the article translated to English from German.

Rudi Dekker By James McEntee

This assignment on the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was for STERN magazine. This particular story was about the government 9/11 conspiracy theory and Dylan Avery the Director.

Loose Change Background
Coverage for the film increased in 2006 with the recut release having airings on U.S. and European television stations and over 4 million views online in four months, leading Vanity Fair to say it could be the first internet blockbuster. Loose Change puts the 9/11 attacks within a context of a false flag operation and goes on to question the plausibility of the Pentagon attack, World Trade Center collapse and United 93 phone calls and crash. The film’s main claims have been refuted by journalists, independent and 9/11 Truth researchers, and prominent members of the scientific and engineering community.

On a hot August morning we met at the Miami location, a beautiful home where
the owners were excellent hosts. With kids, you need to be fast and flexible
to work with their energy levels and moods. These kids were READY TO PLAY,
so we started shooting immediately!

In the past, I loved shooting high-speed film because of the unique, high
contrast look it gave to the final images. Now everything is created
digitally, so I’ve been working on post-production techniques that will
allow me to create an alternative, slightly edgy look and feel — and
communicate a strong sense of color, energy and intensity to the viewer.

Starting off in the darkroom at the age of 15, using multiple enlargers to make one print…and fast forwarding to today technology can be mind boggling. I have spent 1000’s of hours in the darkroom creating custom process to achieve the color or B/W print I imagined. Now I spend even more hours in front of the computer counting the seconds for the computer to process these large files. Your eyes still have to adjust to the daylight…so I guess the digital age still has some old traditions compared to the darkroom….now know as the computer room

Here is a little illustration, I created with a some planning and creativity for a recent shoot I did.

With the Football lockout over the advertisers are taking advantage of one of the biggest marketing seasons. This will be a part of a new burger king campaign promoting togetherness and food.

Burger King Tenders