June 2008: Baltimore Magazine

This was a great month for me editorially! I was given the feature piece for Baltimore Magazine, "2008 Top Salons". The article featured 30 salons, of which 12 were to be photographed (Alpha Studio, Balance the Salon, Brian Bunce Barbers, Elizabeth Jacob Spa & Salon, K. Co Design Salon and Day Spa, Lluminaire Salon, Mt. Washington Spa, Quintessential Gentleman, ReNew Organic Day Spa, Scene 217, Sprout, and Uno Salon). The feature was also followed by a small "behind the scenes" type piece about Empire Beauty Schools, which I also was assigned to photographed.

Here's what it looks like in the magazine:









I love how the whole piece came out! All the salons were great fun to shoot, I'm thrilled with how the images came out, and I loved the layout!

Since a couple of these are too small to see in the tear sheets above, a few of my favorite shots were....

- the shot for Alpha Studio. The girl getting her hair done is Mary Alice Fallon Yeskey, from the T.V. show "Ace of Cakes" (which is shot here in B-more). She was a lot of fun to photograph, the shoot was a blast:



- the shot for Scene 217. My art director was looking for a shot of the front window, but that also somehow tied it in with Little Italy (where it is located). Debbie Ingrao, the owner, mentioned that her husband had a Vespa, and she had no problem dresssing up and modeling with it in front of the salon. She also had no problem with onlookers from the restaurant across the street, whose windows were being flooded by the flashes of my strobes outside...



- the shots for Brian Bunce Barbers and The Quintessential Gentleman. Normally only featuring specifically spa's and salons, it was cool to see these guys included. Brian Bunce is fairly new to the scene and was thrilled to be a part of it,



and the guy getting the shave from The Quintessential Gentleman is actually getting a real shave. So we're talking documentary style with the shot, and the guy giving him the shave was good, too - it was hard to keep up! :



Also in this issue was Rachel Rappaport, blogger of Coconut & Lime (coconutlime.blogspot.com). Her blog, with over 700 original recipes, gets 100,00 unique visitors every month. She was featured in the Lifestyle dept. of this issue, and they included one of the shots of her in the table of contents. Check it out: