Capturing Your Vision

We are so excited to announce Bill's upcoming workshop Emotional Motion: Capturing Your Vision sponsored by Adorama and Nikon. This special event is April 19 from 5:30 - 8 p.m. (EST) at the Adorama Building in New York. Registration is $25 and each attendee will receive a $25.00 coupon at the event in exchange for a copy of their registration receipt.

The coupon will be valid for 30 days towards the purchase of any merchandise when presented at either Adorama’s retail store at 42 West 18th Street, New York, or for an online purchase at www.adorama.com

Sign up now to attend.

SI Special Report Cover

Check out Bill's cover for SI's special report on the "Bounty Culture" in the NFL. Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma is shown in his stance before the snap.

What's Your Story? - Nikon Nordic Tour

We are so excited to announce that together with Joe McNally, Bill will be headlining Nikon Nordic's What's Your Story? Workshop.  Joe and Bill will be telling stories, showing images, and pretty much just having a great time with Peter Brodin and Lasse Pettersson from Nikon. The group will be showcasing Nikon's new professional DSLR cameras, the D4, D800 and D800E. The tour kicks off in Tallinn on March 26 and will stop in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. Register now to reserve your seat.

Learn more at http://nordic.nikon.se/whatsyourstory/pages/index.asp?Home,en_GB

Top Gadgets the Pros Use

The Nikon D4 made MSN's list of Top Gadget's the Pros Use. Check out their review of the D4 and see what other gadgets made the list.

Shooting Portraits on Location Webinar

We are excited to announce part two of Bill's Webinar series Shooting Portraits on Location for the Manfrotto School of Xcellence. You can sign up now to hear Bill discuss his shooting style, lighting and how he captures the personalities of those he photographs. Space is limited, so register now for the Webinar on March 15 from 2 - 3 p.m. (EDT).

NPS Professional Insights Interview

We are very excited to announce Bill's new interview for Nikon Professional Services. Now online, Bill talks about how he approaches each shoot and what inspires him.  Check it out today on the NPS Web site.

New Kelby Training Course

I am extremely fortunate and honored to be joining the KelbyTraining.com team as an instructor. Scott has pulled together a great group of creative professionals, and they do amazing work -- and even better, they are a really generous and fun group of folks.

Scott's blog is part of my daily reading. His new online magazine, "Light It" is another gift to the photo community.

The first of the five classes I've done with KelbyTraining.com will be available Monday, February 20. The course, "Environmental Sports Portraiture" will cover everything from gear to lighting set ups.

The trailer for the course is available now. Check it out:

I Witness

A new exhibit I Witness at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami will feature images from Bill Frakes. The show opens March 10 and will run through April 4. The photography exhibit will bring together the works of twenty-five global contemporary photojournalists/artists, exploring conflict, as depicted by the artists, in terms of experiences that are personal, internal, psychosocial, military, cultural or religious.

iPhoneography in Mexico

The Apple Distinguished Educators are one of our favorite groups to work with.  Being with them is like spending time with all your favorite teachers - the ones who changed your life. Last week, Bill and I were with them in Guanajuato, Mexico, taking pictures and teaching them about what we do.

A lot of our work is complicated - very technical and time consuming.  Some of it isn't.

We try to use the right tool for every job.  Sometimes that's a powerful Nikon DSLR, occasionally an extremely high end video camera, and sometimes our phones.

We can do a lot with one iPhone.

On this trip we wanted to focus on that workflow, showing our "students" everything that is possible with the phone they already own.

We took a photo walk one day through Guanajuato.  It's an incredibly photogenic town.  There were pictures around every corner.

While Bill gave instruction on light, composition and technique, I followed the group with an iPhone and a small tripod.

At the end of the walk, we presented everyone with this video.  It was done entirely on my iPhone 4 - shot, edited and exported on one device.

Having an entire production studio in my hand is a powerful thing.

Super Bowl

I am frequently asked which are my favorite teams in sports and who I want to win. It's pretty simple really. I pull for the people who are nice to me.

Last night in Indianapolis, there were a couple of players on the field I have spent time with through the years.

Danny Woodhead of the Patriots, and Eli Manning from the victorious New York football Giants.

When Danny was a senior at tiny Chadron State College in western Nebraska, Laura and I spent two great days working with him as he closed in on the NCAA career rushing record.

He was friendly and generous with his time. And especially since he is from a small town in Nebraska, like me, I always hope he does well.

But it was a little more complicated last night. Eli Manning, the youngest member of sports most gracious family, I photographed before he was a teenager.

We weren't doing a story on Eli, it was a piece on Archie, his dad, hero of Mississippi.

Then I photographed Eli again when we were doing a piece on his older brother Peyton.

I went to school at Ole Miss, and so when Eli was the star there, Steve Fine, SI's director of photography, sent me to Oxford to make portraits and shoo game action of Eli there.

I photographed him again when he was a first round draft pick.

Yet again at the family football camp - the Manning passing academy.

Another time for a story on his brother Cooper.

Each and every time Eli has been the same. Quiet, polite, and -- it hurts to be old enough to say this about a man who has now twice been Super Bowl MVP -- a really good kid.

Sports Illustrated's best images of Super Bowl XLVI gallery is now online.