PHIL SCHOFIELD PHOTOGRAPHY

Commerce / Industry

A business is both a process and the people who bring a product to the marketplace. Images can be icons that define a business, a product or a service. An effective marketing tool that works in concert with a well planned strategy for getting the message across. My job is to create and capture images that make the viewer want to stop and think about your message.

Shot on assignment for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine. A truck driver at the end of his shift at the Neumont Gold's Carlin mine Elko, NV walks away from the mammoth diesel-electric ore truck that  is big enough to carry six full size pick-up trucks in its bed.
  
Shot for a photo book on Spokane, Washington. Two iron workers dangle precariously while anchoring the steel beamed framework of a new addition to the skyline of downtown Spokane.
  
Shot on assignment for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Magazine. A harvest moon rises behind a combine harvesting wheat in the Palouse farming region of northern Idaho.
     
  
Shot on assignment for FORTUNE Magazine.Used as a the cover for an issue about the state of American Industry. This was shot at the Jim Bridger coal fired power plant near Rock Springs, Wyoming.
  
Shot on assignment for Intalco Aluminum,a worker inventories the stockpile of annodes used in making aluminum at the Intalco smelter at Ferndale, WA.
  
Shot on assignment for the Frank Russell Company.  Portrait of an executive of the Frank Russell Company, a  pension fund investment securities company in Tacoma, WA.
     
  
Shot on assignmnet for WASHINGTON Magazine. When the wheat is ready for harvest, farmers work 18 hour days to get the wheat cut while the weather cooperates. Part of a story about a family wheat farm in the Palouse country of eastern Washington.
  
Shot for a photo book on the University of Alberta. A research chemist working in a lab at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
  
Shot for a photo book on Spokane, Washington.  Two investors discuss the days market activity at the Spokane Stock Exchange. The S.S.E. was founded as a market for the precious metals stocks associated with nearby Silver Valley mining district of north Idaho.
     
  
Shot on assignment for SUNSET Magazine. Oysters are harvested at lowtide, and lowtide comes at all hours of the day. A worker gathers Quillcene oysters  by lantern light after sunset at Daybob Bay on Hoods Canal,Washington.
  
Shot for photo book on Spokane.  A nurse in a hospital neo-natal intensive care unit caresses a tiny preemie baby in an incubator.