This aerial shot is of the Kawasaki assembly plant in Newnan, GA. The image's final destination is as a wall sized print for the Kawasaki Heavy Industries corporate headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.

For industrial photography the primary goal is to present the subject in a clean and visually interesting manner. Unless it's an industrial product, this gives some leeway in toning the image and in playing with focus -- both things I did for this shot of chemists working on bio fuels. The company had just moved into these labs on the Ga State University campus, so nothing had been affixed to the floor yet. I rearranged several work stations to get this one at an angle where I'd see something of interest in the background -- in this case, another chemist working on a different part of the process.

This is a Kawasaki bucket loader on a job site in Las Vegas, Nevada. I was there for a week, shooting several of Kawasaki’s models. We’d already covered the more straightforward images needed for the brochure layout, but I’d been keeping my eye on this location in case we had a chance to come back to it before we lost our light. I liked the composition of these mounds and the conveyor overhead so after we’d finished up, I had the driver bring the loader around for one last shot.

One of the most complicated shots I do are these "visibility" shots, taken from the driver's perspective inside a cab on a Kawasaki bucket loader. The perspective is too great to be captured in one shot so I have to build these shots out of many.

This is not a simple panorama build, like the software available now in most consumer cameras and smart phones; Photoshop can't even do it correctly without hours of hand working each image.

The first shot was taken at a large scale printer that specialized in the production of lottery tickets. These pressmen were working with a printing drum off one of the lines. The press was currently printing tickets for a Russian lottery.

The second shot is from the automation department of a stage and exhibit fabricator. This equipment is used to maneuver objects around a stage during live shows and on exhibit floors.

I shoot multiple angles and detail shots of all the Kawasaki bucket loaders as the new models arrive. I generally have a short window in which to shoot them before they ship out to a job site so not always the most ideal conditions. I've shot them in rain, fog, snow, blistering heat and high winds; I might even include a sandstorm.