I’ve been photographing the Reston Station complex with the drone for several years now. The mixed lighting sources are plastically dynamic, and you can’t be the diagonals in the Helmut Jahn building..
1900 Reston Metro Plaza.
Van Gogh Bridge
Van Gogh Bridge, Lake Anne
About 10 years ago, I got an assignment from Reston magazine to make a portrait of the town’s founder, Robert E. Simon, near this bridge. The trees were at peak flower, as they are in this photograph, but Simon’s schedule was too busy. He penciled me in for the following week, but not before…. a storm blew all the petals off the trees. We did the shoot anyway.
The sun was obscured by clouds this morning, so the light didn’t quite happen. I’ll be back.
Sunrise over Lake Audubon
Spring in Virginia is just wonderful. There’s really no other place in the country I’d rather be right now.
Rokeby Road outside Oak Springs Garden
Above Upperville, VA
Virginia horse country is some of the most beautiful landscape in the United States: Lots of green, open pasture and rolling Piedmont framed against the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is surprisingly not widely photographed for such a gorgeous place, probably because much of it is away from highways. To get here, you need to drive an hour outside Washington, DC and then take 10 miles of two-lane roads. This was an outtake from a recent magazine assignment shot with a drone.