by HagePhoto
Last fall we embarked on a week-long tour of Iñupiaq communities around Alaska’s vast Arctic as part of a production team for Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. Based in Barrow, ASRC is one of the original ’native corporations’ established by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1972. Today they are the largest Alaska-owned company with […]
Categories: Alaska • Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Commercial, People
by HagePhoto
My photography journey began eight years ago when I first picked up a camera and took a black and white film course at Middle Tennessee State University. This class changed everything for me. What started as a small interest and a way to meet my elective hours quickly became a passion, and I ultimately graduated […]
Categories: Photography Business • Tags: Backpacking, Internship, People, Photography
by HagePhoto
Earlier this spring we got the opportunity to shoot with our hometown Lululemon ambassador Tonia Burrow. The session began with a yoga series at her home in Girdwood to capture Tonia’s eclectic character and style. But we also needed to produce work that put her in Alaska. For that we took advantage of a spectacular […]
Categories: Active Lifestyle • Tags: Alaska, People, Yoga
by HagePhoto
Earlier this summer we were down in Park City to shoot a job for the Utah Olympic Park. Other than offering up a world-class training venue for olympic athletes, the park also offers activities open to the public. They had recently completed a couple new challenge courses complete with high ropes courses, zip lines and […]
Categories: Active Lifestyle • Tags: Commercial, People, Travel
by HagePhoto
Last month we were back in the Andes of Argentina for an assignment and once again enjoyed traveling these mountains with the ‘cowboys’ of South America. The gauchos act are the muleteers who direct these beasts of burden that haul our equipment and supplies into base camp. They’re on the go during the day and […]
Categories: Adventure • Tags: Mountain, People, Photography, Travel
by HagePhoto
Wow! 2012 was a whirlwind of travel, adventures and good times. We got the opportunity to do assignment work in some places on our ‘dream list'; Sierra Nevada, Selkirks, New Zealand. There were also so many amazing adventures with good friends, such as climbing and skiing a steaming volcano out in the middle of Alaska’s […]
Categories: Active Lifestyle • Tags: Adventure, People, Travel
by HagePhoto
This month HagePhoto is the cover feature for the fall issue of PDNedu. The article talks about how we got started in the photography business and a bit about how we operate on remote assignments around the world. Published quarterly by parent magazine Photo District News, the education journal is targeted to photography students and […]
Categories: Photography Business • Tags: Adventure, Alaska, Mountain, People, Photography, Technique, Travel
by HagePhoto
It seems like a century ago, but today marks ten years since I completed my first canoe voyage down the 2,000-mile length of the Yukon River. In June 2001, I put an 18-foot Old Town in the glassy waters of Lake Laberge and reached the river’s mouth just shy of the Bering Sea coast 90-days […]
Categories: Alaska • Tags: Adventure, People, Photography
by HagePhoto
There is a stiff 1,000 meter ascent to reach the Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar, gateway to Nepal’s world-famous Khumbu Himal. We planned our arrival on a Friday afternoon when the village prepares for its well-known Saturday market. Groups of porters pass us on the steep trail, smoking cigarettes while talking on their cell phones. […]
Categories: Travel • Tags: Adventure, Mountain, nepal, People, Photography, Travel
by HagePhoto
Last fall (2010) we traveled out to the village of Aniak, a small Yup’ik community of 500 on the Kuskokwim River, to shoot an assignment for Scholastic publications. The core of Aniak’s volunteer fire department is a lively gang of teenagers that have been trained to put out fires, respond to ATV accidents and generally […]
Categories: Photography Business • Tags: Alaska, People, Photography