One of the great things about stock photography is that it allows for customers to buy images without the worries of having to produce them at a large expense. But ultimately, unless the image is heavily rights-managed, other customers can use the same image for similar usage in the same region the image is to be used – and if your photo’s seen on someone else’s website or production, you’ve committed a business faux pas.

Having Patrick Lane Photography create an image library for your company can make it easier to and more affordable to use pictures in productions. We love helping companies avoid the hassles of large-scale productions – and intentionally offer competitive rates. We know what bad photography and stressful productions look like, and we don’t want our customers to have to deal with them.

If you think a custom library may enhance your operations, give us a shout. We’ll make it easy and affordable for you. In the meantime, check this one out:

USAA started out in 1924 as the United States Army Automobile Association by a group of U.S. Army officers to self-insure each other because they were unable to get auto insurance due to the notion that soldiers were a high-risk group. Today, United Services Automobile Association (USAA) is one of the top ten automobile insurance providers in the country. USAA now employs more than 21,500 employees throughout the United States, and was ranked 45th on Fortune Magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”

So props to USAA for providing a great service to our military and their families!  And a special thanks for Phil Foster and Tatiana Luneva-Evenchik for deciding to work with me.  It was a pleasure to work with you both.

USAA Photography by Patrick Lane Photography

Religion is beautiful and precious to its beholders, but more beautiful is humanity and the right for all humans to freely believe what they wish– without persecution from others for believing differently.

All religions change. This has been true since their beginnings, when cavemen performed sacred rituals to honor their dead. The influence of religion is perhaps the most overlooked social good man has endured. That social good is currently expanding to the world of Islam.  Organizations like www.reformislam.org are pioneers of change the Islamic world.  With Islam changing, albeit a slow change, wonderful things will come.

Here are some examples of how we’ve been able to convey the change that woman of Islamic and Arab descent have been able to achieve in the United States, thanks to our Bill of Rights.

Fall 2008 Rigamarole

Fall 2008 Rigamarole

This was a great project to work on.  Rigamarole is an awesome publication for the employees, customers, suppliers and friends of Diamond Offshore Drilling.  Working closely with Daniel Pagan at Rigsby-Hull Design is always such a pleasure.  He is a great designer and a great person to know.  This article is about the 30 million dollar face lift on The Ocean Valiant, a semi-submersible rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico.  The article above was written by Denise Allen Zwicker.