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February: found out I passed the bar sometime in December. celebrated a bit (OK a lot and I'm still celebrating).  shot Fashion Week so things might got delayed while I got edits out the door and fought with Facebook and their new image upload/suggest tags for everything.
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Photography is both the science AND THE MAGIC of light. Who said that? well, I did. It's an AVD original.  Hello, and welcome to my corner.

I'm a full time professional photographer. That means I've done pretty much everything at one time or an other (and survived to tell the tale).   I refuse to specialize.  It's just not my thing. 



I'm available for most of the established genres but pretty clueless about someone of the more advance fetish work so unless I have a look you really want, booking me for that would be probably counterproductive.

I'm the ideas guy.  I share them freely.  Love my idea but want to steal it for a shoot with someone else? I won't mind.  I got a few thousand more.
It comes with the territory of being a generalist.  Actors book me for headshots and keep me for shows, cast parties and weddings (once they stop running long enough to get married).  I've never been booked for a divorce party but I have some amazing ideas ready if anyone wants a divorce party to celebrate moving on.  I've done runway fashion but never actually shot on a runway at an airport.  If anyone wants the windblown look and planes as a backdrop I can set it up.  I've done weddings and baptisms but no bar mitzvahs. There must be a reason.

For models I prefer to do a lot of the work in-camera and leave post to a minimum.  I have a studio and it gets used every week, but I prefer location shots.  To me a location is just another idea turned into a studio.   

Because of this, I don't have a set 'workflow'. I wouldn't know one if it bit me on the ass.  Everything is a creative process. I prefer it that way.  It's not re-inventing the wheel. It's making new and different wheels every time.  So, other than weddings, unless I invite you to shoot with me on a test, my rates are basically the booking fee for my time at the hourly $$$. Simple enough?

"Dan is a committed Sony Alpha Male.  No exceptions"

"Dan only works 109% on weekends"

"Dan does not stop work at 5 or even 10PM. When others have finished their long day of work and headed to bed Dan is out on location in concert halls, clubs and convention centers setting up for a night's action. Dan brings the same physical intensity and stamina to a full night's event that he brought all day on location"

and here's a quote I didn't write. It has come to my attention that it needed to be said: