Assistant Rob Frazier on location yesterday wearing a rather uncharacteristic look of "Say that again and I will BREAK YOUR FACE!"

       It's that time again. Follow this link to: wehearttrees.org share on Facebook, twitter and help KNOCK plant a tree!

    Nice PDN article on Colle McVoy's Chris Peters. Happy to have one of my shots for New Holland tractors featured in it. Read the article here.

    It's fun to see the Briggs and Stratton logo I worked on with CUE up on the B&S home page. It's one of many I've had the pleasure to create with agencies such as Mono, Fallon, Carmichael Lynch, Duffy Design and Martin Williams.

    Had a great time skiing with the kids in Colorado last week. Now I'm ready to get back to it; kicking off on a month of projects with a shoot for Target Pharmacy today. 

     Preparing for a project with Allan Peters by sifting 500 pounds of play sand to the appropriate consistency. (This has nothing to do with the shoot. It's just a common request he makes.)

      Here are some images from a recent project with Duffy and Partners for Hershey's. The Air Delight packaging we shot is in stores and broadcast as well.

It's always fun to see my work on the Minneapolis Egotist. Here's some Grassiani I shot with Duffy & Partners.

It was fun shooting the new Target Shopping Basket Zamboni at the Xcel Center with Allan Peters and Co. this week.

Apocalypse Ephemeris 2012 Calendar

Be sure to head out to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to hear him speak Thursday night, January 12th. 6PM at the Pillsbury Auditorium!

      It's fun to see the latest Target Gift Cards I worked on with Brian Holt arriving in stores this week. It's the trifecta following my other two gift cards I worked on this year. You can see the other two here: http://sheehanphoto.com/posts/180

These lenticular gift cards we did are cool too!

    It looks like we will be ending the trip with the same weather we started with as the clouds begin to roll in.

We had the trail to ourselves between Clyde Smith Shelter and the Iron Mountain Gap.

A tree finds it's way around some rock.

      We just wrapped up our trip just before the next round of rain came through. 

     My traveling companions. My brother-in-law J.R., who got me started on marathons and mountain climbing, and my father-in-law Drew, who got me hooked on hiking with trips through the Grand Canyon,  the Camino de Santiago, and here for the second time, on the Appalachian Trail.

Thinking about Avatar here.

The stands of trees on Roan High Knob Mountain are gorgeous.

    This hunter, working with a large party and 15 or 16 dogs, was hunting bear. Hunting really isn't my deal, but as an omnivore I'm not really in a position to judge.

 A random fireplace along the trail. There was an ill-fated hotel built nearby in 1884, but I don't know if this was related.

    I met another thru hiker on this section. A typical greeting along the trail often includes a question. "You goin' all the way?"  With 1800 miles behind him and 350 more to go, Man-Man from Salt Lake City, was going all the way.

     The Overmountain Shelter was a barn built in the 70's and converted to an AT shelter and renovated in the 90's. Wind whips through it like a sieve. (It is beautiful though and even the mice are nice.)

      We make our way to Roan High Knob and leave the fall colors behind as trees are largely bare by late October.

    We get a splash of color as we approach Grassy Ridge.

    A big stand of fir trees.

    We met another thru-hiker at Roan High Knob Shelter. "Mismatch" is one of only four eighteen year old thru hikers on the AT this year.

     At an altitude of 6200 feet, the Roan High Knob Shelter is the highest backcountry shelter on the entire 2,174-mile Appalachian Trail. In 1933,  a fire tower and warden's cabin were built at the summit of Roan High Knob. Although the tower proved ineffective and did not last long (the cabin was renovated in 1980 and now serves as the Roan High Knob Shelter).

     J.R. consults our AT book as he considers our options for tomorrow's hike.