Steve Giralt

Last week I visited Minneapolis to meet with some of the great creative agencies in the city and on my free time, I wandered the area with my camera. The city happened to have gotten some beautiful soft white snow in the days I was there and these images are a study of that blanket of white snow. It was beautiful and became more of a study of what was not white, than what was white. I shot around lake Calhoun and wandered the countryside outside the city as well. Enjoy!

I must say, there is no better subject to photograph than a good friend. They usually ignore the camera, they act themselves when you’re around, and the not afraid to laugh real big in front of you .. in my case … usually to my jokes … oh, wait, maybe I’m not that funny … hmm? I think I am …

Here are a couple images I shot when I want apple picking upstate last fall. With a little adjustment to color and contrast, these images really pop. I love these images. So, next time you hang out with me … smile really big … click, click, click …

For the last couple of years I have been shooting the Johnston and Murphy Catalog. They are a wonderful client to work with, along with the catalog agency Pluzynski Associates who manages the account. Sometimes my images are used for things more than just the catalog and internet, sometimes they are blown up really large and put in the in-store displays. It’s always fun as a photographer to be walking down the street and see your images huge in a store window where thousands of people pass by them every day.

Last night I was walking around town with a friend taking pictures with a pinhole camera I had make myself and at the same time, I was carrying my new Canon 1Ds Mark III camera taking snapshots along the way. The Canon is amazing in low-light situations and it allowed me to capture some fun images. I love the first 2 as a dip-tic.

These are some current images live on the macys.com website right now. These are a combination of 2 different shoots all based on this green british garden theme I did for macys.com. They were a lot of fun considering that we were shooting kitchen ware.