I recently had the pleasure of photographing the latest advertising campaign for AAA of Washington. These are ads that will appear on busses around Seattle and billboards in Spokane.

The shoot involved our renting a large drive-in studio, then lighting their rescue trucks and photographing them from a low angle to add a dynamic feel.  The plan was to shoot the trucks and the subjects separately, then combine them both along with a dramatic stormy sky, in Photoshop.

Given the theme is superheroes at work, we shot everyone with an extremely wide angle lens for that cartoon feeling. It added to the look of brawn and bigger than life action figures. Given these are real guys, not accustomed to hamming it up for the camera, they did a great job.

AAA of Washington are a terrific group of talented folks, working in house at AAA’s offices, but doing the caliber of work produced by top agencies. Lighting large vehicles is no easy feat. Many thanks to my assistants, Joe Peila and Brian Jones along with the folks at AAA. They’re all AAA quality in my comic book!

I’ve known these boys since they were born. Their proud parents Susan and John, are two of my favorite people. Time passed, life changed and I hadn’t seen them in awhile. It’s incredible to see them now… hard to put into words what that feels like, so it’s best left to photos. These were shot in the old military bunkers of Fort Worden, in Port Townsend, Washington. Its where the movie “Officer And A Gentleman” was filmed, ten years before Evan was born.