Bryan Nielsen
Regional Vice President
AZ State Savings & Credit Union
Apache Junction, AZ ~ 5:46 PM on 4.17.2003

The art director Andrew Danish asked for an environmental portrait of Bryan Nielsen for Cisco Systems iQ magazine. This was a cover story for the July/August 2003 issue. This triptych ran across 2 pages inside.

I scouted for a location with the Superstition mountains as Bryan worked at an office in the east valley... I was driving around looking for the "perfect cactus" which I didn't think I would find... I called my assistant... the shoot was in 2 days and it was getting late, then I saw this magnificent saguaro with two additional saguaros. Thank you nature!

Strobist info / Lighting: three Dynalites
Medium Chimera, camera left
10" reflectors to light cactus on the left and right.
The sun is lighting the cactus in the middle.