The Hilliard Photographics Group: Blog

It was 70 degrees when I arrived in Denver on Wednesday, April 15.
I spent a couple of days photographing home electronics and an amazing horse ranch called Saddle Up that works with handicapped children and adults. Then things started to go downhill fast.  A major snowstorm hit the area.

Some areas got 56″ of snow and I 70 was closed for 17 hours.  I ended up spending 4 nights at the clients home.  We are still speaking however, and he plans to use us for more work in the future.

Here’s a shot of my motorhome stranded in the road at the beginning of the storm.

Next week we are off to San Francisco!

Next week we’re headed off to Denver for several assignments in and around Denver and Vail. If we have time, we may  head over to Salt Lake City and to Arches National Park for some hiking.

We photographed this rock & roll themed home theater while we were in Nashville, TN.  It is another amazing design from Casa Home Cinema utilizing a tiny space above a garage.

The theater contains a beautiful totally restored 1955 Wurlitzer jukebox that worked great playing 45’s and sounded amazing. Sometimes, I have the best job in the world!

We photographed this celebrity couple and several rooms in their home in Chicago for a home electronics company. He is Bill Rancic, the winner of the first season of “The Apprentice “on NBC. She is Guiliana Depandi of E! Entertainment on the style channel. The photo shoot was great-they had a film crew there from the show and I even got on camera while photographing the couple. Watch for me this summer on “The Style Channel!”

To serve as a base of operations and mobile office for our out of town assignments, last month we purchased this new 2009 Coachmen Freelander motorhome.

This enables us to download photos, wait for the perfect light, sleep. cook meals etc. while on the job site for our architectural photography work. Many of the structures we photograph are quite a distance from the nearest hotel so the motorhome will make our workflow much more efficient.

It also gives a 14 foot high shooting platform on its rear deck.