Washington Spaces Magazine Celebrates their Fifth Anniversary

At least 200 of the region’s best designers, architects, builders, and home-interior tradespeople gathered to help us celebrate – and to tour Turnberry’s fabulous $7.1 million Tower Suite, which is situated above the penthouses.

Imagine waking up to views of the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Kennedy Center, or sipping wine in the living room as you gaze down at what look like strands of diamonds and rubies streaming back and forth over Key Bridge and the inky Potomac River below, while the lights of Georgetown twinkle in the background.

Read more: http://www.washingtonspaces.com/blog/articles/2009/11/13/celebrating-our-fifth-anniversary#ixzz0X3x5G1aL

The walls of the unfinished space were lined with gigantic images of the magazine’s 31 covers to date, and everyone was asked to vote for their favorite.

Here’s the ballot box,

The winner, shot by photographer Morgan Howarth, was our striking Fall 2008 cover of Architect Lavinia Fici Pasquina’s house in Bethesda, MD.

This cover is among the few we’ve ever done of a home’s exterior, which caused a bit of a debate when we were choosing it, but now that the votes are in, we’re glad we did.

Read more: http://www.washingtonspaces.com/blog/articles/2009/11/13/celebrating-our-fifth-anniversary#ixzz0X3wTiRaQ

New BDI home theater ads by Morgan Howarth

These ads were great fun to shoot and I wanted to thank the many people who helped make this production go so smoothly:

Wonderful Machine's Jess Dudley - producers extraordinaire, nothing was left to chance all I had to do was show up with my equipment and crew. The production book alone was a work of art.

Jeff Akseizer and Jamie Brown Akseizer Design Group - acted as stylist and did a magnificent job sourcing and delivering the props.

John Roberts - Art director, Wrayward.com great to work with.

Karen Smith - Production Manager - Wrayward.com, very professional.

Andy Kahl - Digital Tech put me at ease with his technical savvy he was always one step ahead.

Jason Colston - First Assistant I would recommend Jason to any professional photographer.

Sara Bielcki - Second Assistant great assistant always watching the details made us all smile.

Lavinia Fici Pasquina - Architect, Builder, and Home owner of the fabulous location we took these pictures at. Lavinia and her family were incredibly generous with their home and their time.

Morgan Howarth Photography

Morgan Howarth shoots a remodel that invites light while preserving privacy

A 1970s-modern house, tucked among bungalows in Arlington’s Clarendon community, recently got a sleek renovation from Architect Ben Ames and Interior Designer Catherine Hailey. The homeowners wanted to enlarge the kitchen and add a family room and home office. Amestudio Inc. and Hailey Design LLC did just that – and much more. Ames completely reconfigured the first floor, with the exception of the library. He added a family room to the rear of the house that flows seamlessly from the now-enlarged kitchen, plus a home office in a tower with huge windows on three sides. Hailey helped the couple select furnishings for the house that pop with personality. One wall in the wife’s home office is a shocking pink called Hot Lips.

Morgan Howarth Photography shoots NEW cover for Washington Spaces Magazine

CharityWorks, West Group, and GreenSpur Inc. present one of the nation’s first green designer show houses. Washington Spaces is proud to sponsor this carbon-neutral show house in McLean, VA

Michael Pritchard turns filthy water drinkable

Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it -- inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.

A fantastic product that can save so many lives. This is what true entrepreneurism is all about. Everyone should buy one to help Mr. Pritchard distribute these to people who neeed them badly. It won't be long before we will all need them...

Morgan Howarth shoots 2009 DC Designer House in Georgetown

A win-win situation arose when St. John’s Episcopal Church in Georgetown offered its rectory to be used for the 2009 DC Design House: The rectory got some sorely needed TLC, and the Design House raised more than $100,000 for the Children’s National Medical Center.

New Washington Spaces Cover by Morgan Howarth

This beautiful baby was born here and now she’s back!” Lorna Gross of Savant Interior Design says of her client, Sylvia Davis. In fact, Davis was born at Columbia Hospital for Women, which was one of the oldest hospitals in the District when it was closed in 2002 and converted into condominiums. Davis is not only back at her birthplace, but living in the handsome penthouse of what is now called The Columbia Residences of Washington, DC.

My first Band shot of MRC in Portland, Maine somewhere around 1998 - 2000

This was my first band shot from my studio in Portland, Maine. I don't remember telling the band exactly what I was going to do.

My first step was to video tape them in the studio behind a large plate glass window so if I wanted they could press their faces up against the TV tube. Most of the band members were looking at me like I had a pointed head...very skeptical.... I decided to move on to having them doing 30 second holds at various poses. This would be important later because that's a live video image pumping threw that deconstructed TV chassis so I needed the video image to be still through out the exposure.

The background was my studio in Maine. I am afraid I forgot the name of the band member on the left but I think he was a rocket scientist in real life so I recruited him to help me get the TV to actually work with a VCR and have a pretty good image. I took a giant console TV (the size of a small car) I found at a salvation army store, deconstructed it, built an angle iron frame and added wheels. The scientist told me that I could have electrocuted myself with very little effort.

The final exposure was the working TV connected to a VCR with one of the chosen video segments of them posing very still F 22 , 5 second exposure, on 4x5 color transparency film with a Sinar F-1 camera 150mm Fujinon lens. This was before The major digital investment.

One Speedotron strobe behind the TV to light up the back walls of the studio. I used 12"x12" Plastic mirrors I found at Home Depot to reflect light from the background strobe into the front of the TV just to add some detail.

Let me know what you think. By the way any bands out there looking for interesting band shots ...give me a call.

New Burning cocktail umbrella image uploaded to Imagekind

Morgan Howarth new promo postcard today

New cover Washington Spaces Magazine

Georgetown row house photographed for Washington Spaces Magazine by Morgan Howarth. Fantastic trim work with no fewer than 6 paint colors covering the walls.

New Promo postcard today

Yankee Stadium home run

I used to watch a lot of Looney Tunes Cartoons when I was a kid. It obviously had an effect on me, good or bad you let me know.

Interiors 2 book

Here is the new edition to my "Interiors" series of books.

Fun with Barbed Wire

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Just doing a little playing around in ®Photoshop today. Looks a bit ominous but it was a great deal of fun to put together.

Morgan Howarth Photography now represented by Wonderful Machine

We are now represented by Wonderful Machine.

"We're not a traditional rep, but rather a hybrid, combining elements of a photographer's agency and web marketing portal. In the year since our inception, we've built a web portal that has become a destination for art buyers looking for high quality commercial and editorial photographers. We're careful to add only photographers who will increase the overall appeal of the site - which helps everyone. We limit the number of photographers in order to maximize the benefit for our members and their prospective clients. Not only do new photographers have to measure up to a high standard of talent. They also have to have something to add in terms of specialty or geography. Jess Dudley is our producer. He can help you with estimates, logistics, and post processing (610) 260-0200.