The Hilliard Photographics Group: Blog

We’re off to Texas with assignments in Dallas and Austin.

Update: Here’s a photo I took of the Dallas skyline from the terrace of my hotel.

We spent the week at the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) show in Las Vegas. It was a beautiful sunny 65 degrees every day and we saw some incredible new products at the exhibit hall.

above: Vegas nightlife

above: Home of the future

above: My view from the hotel

above: My upgrade from Hertz :)

We spent a frigid week photographing in Toledo, OH, Buffalo and New York City. In Toledo, we photographed a beautiful bronze sculpture that hangs above the pool at the Bowling Green State aquatic center.

In Buffalo, it was 10 below with 30mph winds. It also dumped almost foot of snow on us in the 2 days we were there. Thank goodness all of our photography for an international bank’s corporate office was indoors.

In New York City, however, we were outdoors photographing a hotel undergoing renovation and a small art gallery in downtown Manhattan. Even with every layer of clothing we had on, it was still cold.

We heard sirens and heard emergency vehicles going by on Thursday and assumed it was another of the many accidents we witnessed on the roads, but we learned when we got back to our hotel that it was the aircraft that had landed in the Hudson River. What a miracle that no one was seriously injured.

We were really excited to receive our copies of Home Electronic Ideas, Winter 2009 and Electronic House January/February 2009 because our photos of home theaters by Donny Hackett from Casa Home Cinema were on both covers.

Donnie was featured in this story in the Electronic House Magazine as well as on the table of contents page.

Also our friend, Michael Murdock from Time Direct in Aurora Colorado, was featured on page 10 for the new “Ask a Pro” department at electronichouse.com.

We recently returned from an assignment at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where we photographed some beautiful architecture.