Steve Maller Photography

I’m working on assignment in Cannes in the south of France this week. I was given the opportunity to ride around on one of the Yahoo! “purple pedals” bikes. These whizzy retro machines are equipped with a solar-powered GPS and webcam, and when they’re underway, they take a photo and relay their position once per minute. You can see the route I took, as well as some of the photos the bike took here: http://purplepedals.com/

Yes, I do this kind of thing for a living. Silly, huh?

I made a 9-minute HD video which chronicles my ride along the beach. Here it is.

I am off on an exciting business trip/photo shoot. I’m presently at San Francisco International Airport on my way to London/Heathrow, where I’m connecting to Nice, France (the Côte d’Azur!). And my place of business for the coming week is the famous “Croisette”, Cannes’ main Boulevard. I’ll be photographing some of the goings-on at the annual Cannes Lions advertising confab, with a special emphasis on the extracurricular activities. Really.

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it one hundred times, my job doesn’t suck.

Your peripatetic blogger/photographer is on holiday for the next couple weeks with his family. It has been a very, very busy, rewarding and fun year, and it’s time to reacquaint oneself with one’s family and enjoy some adventures. This week we’re at the very southernmost tip of Baja California in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It’s quite beautiful here, and we’re loving the sunshine, the friendly people, the comida y cervezas and the togetherness. See y’all in 2009!

Meanwhile, here’s a few photos of the crew…

This week your peripatetic (definition: walking about; itinerant; nomadic) blogging shutterbug is back in the place of his birth: Chicago, Illinois. I am here to photograph the goings-on at a huge water convention called WEFTEC. Water is, of course, a hugely important part of our world, and has, in recent years, become a real political hot potato. So it’s interesting learning more about the technological processes required to process the waste water that we produce in increasingly frightening quantities.

Here are a few photographic highlights…

It was an amazing week of education, entertainment and camaraderie. Here’s a slideshow recap of my week!

I have just finished the busiest month (September) of my career, and I’m still working seven days a week! I can’t believe my good fortune that I get to wake up nearly every day, grab a camera or a computer and do this work. It’s truly a blessing.

Anyway, as for an update, the biggest event recently was Advertising Week in New York City (my favorite place away-from-home in the world). It was five days and almost eighty different events. I had two awesome assistants (thank you Lea and Sam!) and the regular crew of superheroes who put this thing on. I am still not quite dug out from under the over five thousand photographs I brought back with me, but here are a couple of me for your enjoyment. The first one is the Serta Sleep Sheep, one of the advertising “icons” who wandered about entertaining people. The second one is Ziggy Marley, who needs no introduction.

We photographers must periodically do what we call “personal work” in order to keep our creative juices flowing. I am in Portland, Oregon with my son Max for a college visit today. I went out for a walk along the river this morning with my camera, one lens, and no agenda. I enjoyed the quiet time.

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