We shot a great ad for Wellsley Farms bread with BJ's in September. I loved the concept the minute Polly showed it to me and it was a ton of fun to create. Jen Costello was our food stylist and the task was to build a sculpture out of bread loaves. You'd be surprised at what it takes to stack bread... at least the way we did it.

The final ad:

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A quick look at our food day for Stop & Shop. Same crew, except Jenn Costello from Team was styling our food and this time around she and Verne had a whole spread to do. It was gorgeous as usual and such a pleasure to work with those two!

Jessica and Jenna

Going over layouts with James

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

If you look closely at this one Verne has said something that has everyone cracking up...

Lindsay working away

We did a two day shoot for Stop & Shop again last week. For the lifestyle day we shot a time lapse view of the shoot taken from the back of the living room location we were on. It condenses 9 hours into about 2 minutes. I particularly like watching Verne create his magic, the little girls running into the room at lunch, and then Mike at the end. Always a good time....

Shot a new promotion a couple weeks ago. Took months to find the right location. I needed a white picket fence and 2 houses very close to each other. My original idea was to have the fence go right down in between the houses and have a housewife on either side. After six weeks of searching by us, scouts and even some of our clients I became convinced that specific location doesn't exist around here. I could have gone out to Ohio but instead I chose to modify my idea and started looking for a variation on the theme. I actually believe it works better than the original concept in communicating the idea. I finally found it in a new development going up and we used the model home to stage the talent and crew.

As usual we had an incredible crew Verne Cordova, is by all accounts, the master with props and wardrobe and Kathleen Schiffmann did an amazing job on the hair and make up! I couldn't have done this without Amy Harden and Susan Georges from Maggie Inc., two very talented women who nailed the look I wanted and were a ton of fun to work with! Whit our intern took all these great production pictures showing what a great time we had, and he and Mike did a terrific job managing the lighting and location specifics that needed to be moved around.

Our location...

Mapping out the lighting

Kathleen with Amy

Susan in wardrobe

Amy all ready to go

I love the height difference with Kathleen and the models

I didn't do nearly as good a job at looking "sweet and evil"

I gotta bring a step stool for Kathleen on the next one

Only Verne could get away with that move

I love the guys watching from behind me...

Here is the final image:

This is one of my favorite trips. My cousin Steve has a cabin in the Georgian Bay Islands about 2.5 hrs north of Toronto. Beautiful spot... awesome fishing! We used to go every year when my Dad was around, now with kids and busy work schedules it's an every other year event. It's a 3 day fishing tournament with the biggest prize being the Oh Canada Cup awarded to the man with the most fish over the 3 days. I go with my cousins and brothers and for me it's a perfect long weekend. Great friends, good food and big fish.

The biggest prize, however, is in my opinion, one we all get every day - the shore lunch. We keep the fish we catch in the morning - Northern Pike, and fry them up over a fire along with home fried potatoes and onions. It's a meal that simply can't be beat.

The area is incredibly beautiful...

My cousin Steve with a spectacular Bass

This was a fish I caught the first morning. 8lbs about 36". That's my brother Tom next to me.

This was it for lunch

The shore lunch cooks position: bent over, squinting through smoke

Steve Bogart, really good guy... even better hat

and better still a great fisherman

Despite Steve's prowess, I must confess that I won the Cup once again...only this time despite a sizable lead on the last afternoon my brother Chris came back from a big deficit to tie me. You gotta love it!