Places I’ve been… things I’ve seen.
Spent the weekend hanging out with some amazing people for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Albuquerque, NM. Kudos to the great artists involved in the project!
Have you ever spent hours looking through stock photography sites in search of that one special image that represents the concept that’s in your head… and never find a match? Well, now that you’ve found me you don’t have to waste your time on those sites anymore. What could be better than having a former art director as your photographer? You will find a sample of more of this work in this gallery: Stock Photography...
There are still times that I like to shoot film, and I’m doing more of it lately… with my little Holga. Why a Holga? The grain. The light leaks. The square format. This lo-fi approach to fashion photography is very appealing to me, and I will be adding more of it over the next few weeks. You can take a look at more of my Holga shots here: Holga Gallery #1.
I’ve had my clients refer to my work in a number of ways, and sometimes this includes “therapeutic” or as I call it, “phototherapy for your soul.” Some of the clients that tell me this are models looking to strengthen their portfolios. More often, they are professional, everyday women who just want to look and feel beautiful and desirable. Sometimes we meet and chat for an hour before the shoot, and sometimes we just dive...
The portrait isn’t… or shouldn’t be… about fooling someone into thinking you’re something you are not. Most people will sniff that out in a minute. True portraiture is about finding an individual’s moment of character and capturing that spirit… that soul… that self… on film. You hear me talk about essence quite often. That is essence. If you think about the best portraits you’ve seen, you may...
Your event deserves a photographer with the instinct and timing to catch the moment. After all, isn’t that what photography is? Tim McGraw, on stage at Cheyenne Frontier Days™, 2005.
If you like the west and you like a good mystery, pick up one of author CJ Box’s many bestsellers. If you’d like to have a portrait that has power, get in touch with us now.
Bicycles on Haarlemmerstraat, 2004 It was raining lightly as I made my way down Haarlemmerstraat in Amsterdam. It was late November, and I remember being surprised at how mild the temperature was. I was used to Novembers in Chicago and Wyoming, so they were usually quite cold. I imagined a November in Seattle or Portland to be similar. I was headed to Balraj, the Indian restaurant I’d already frequented twice that week. (The Chicken Tikki Masala is...
Rist Canyon is a favorite motorcycle ride in the summer and fall, but it holds a special kind of beauty in the winter. On this night, a heavy mist had fallen on the canyon. When the mist cleared, a thick ice had formed on everything in sight. See the full Snow Trees Gallery.
I remember the last day we were on Culebra. We were so thirsty as we stood on the dock that evening. I found someone selling Medalla (Puerto Rico’s equivalent of Bud Light) and Emma found a mango juice for sale at the souvenir shop. The ferry that would take us back to Fajardo was two hours late, and the hundreds of people who waited for it were becoming restless. Pilots from the local airport were making their way through the crowds, making sure...
It was the dead of summer, and my (at the time) 9 year old daughter and I we tearing a dusty trail up a gravel road in my old Wrangler. We were headed back to our camping spot in the Snowy Range of southeastern Wyoming when I saw several horses grazing in a field. We stopped and I grabbed my camera. As I approached the barbed wire fence at the road’s edge, the horses all stopped eating and looked at us. I don’t know if they like people in...
Regan is an amazing artist and collaborator… and quite a good sport. Here she interacts with a mirror in some very interesting ways. At one point, she fell off the driftwood stump and into the Boulder creek. Keep in mind… this was early May in Colorado! But she shivered away and just kept going, and I think the set is that much better for her determination. See the full Mirror Dance...
the very essence of a place, a person, a moment,
teased out into the light... embraced, documented, and shared with the rest of the world...Terra Creative is me, Don Hajicek. That’s the super-short version.
The slightly longer short version is this: I’ve done a lot of creative stuff professionally. I started in the industry as a production artist, including some illustration here and there, spent many, many years as a print and web designer, copywriter, UI/US expert, art director, and creative director. I’m also a musician and a cook, and I occasionally throw some oil paint on a canvas or make some jewelry. I just love to make stuff.
But I have always been a photographer.
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY WITH AN EDGE
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