It’s one of my favorite situations when personal work became published and paid work. I was asked to scout a building and photograph it to give the record company (Concord Records) an idea what the real Mayflower (the building in Brooklyn Manilow grew up in which inspired the songs) looked like, so they could come up with something similar to shoot the artist in LA.
They loved my photos so much they ended up using them on the CD cover and package and superimposed the photos of the artist (Barry Manilow) over my photos. Then they asked me to go BACK and shoot some more and ended up using them all over the notes! Cool. I love that they took my vision and loved it and used it!
At The Mayflower
Lovely photos! You have a wonderful “eye” Your photos perfectly illustrate the music, lyrics and arrangements for what is arguably one of Barry Manilow’s best and intensely personal projects.
This is my favorite Barry album, and those photos were awesome! The perfectly complimented this awesome album! –JB
Nice work! I’ll be keeping an eye on your new blog.
Very cool! Congrats
Congratulations. Those images are just beautiful! I love them!