This image was one that I got in for PhotoShelter from someone who was a friend of another contributor, and it's really one of those pictures that's kind of under someone's bed. The photographer works in another field and this was a personal photo of his. It's actually a horizontal but he uploaded it vertically by accident and the magazine loved it that way. It turned out to be the only cover of a US mag that the PhotoShelter Collection got before it folded.

Getting this scenario shot required a lot of negotiation with the agent for the athlete. Many stories were done on the fact that he was a painter as well as a pro golfer, and they were wary of that. We wanted to illustrate it in a more innovative way than had been done before.

This is one of my favorite stories I ever worked on at Golf.

The original concept for this shot was to include a clown costume that was cast off on the facing page. The photographer went with something much more simple and profound and I fought to keep it true to that clearer way of seeing the story.

The last photo ever taken of Byron Nelson.

by David Burnett

This image involved a location scout trip as well as some post production work. The mountain was brought a lot further forward. The foreground area was enhanced to give a pretty flat landscape some more depth

Sylvia did some haunting pictures of this story on the South Fork in the off season.

This story won the 2006 ASME award for Leisure Interests.

This is one of those rare handout images that is really incredible.

This is actually a miniature set looking out to a photograph that was a handout from the golf course.

We looked into stock images of french doors but none of them had the right architecture or luxury feel.

When we costed out building a full size set with the prop stylist, we realized it was far cheaper to do with dollhouse scale furnishings.

Jeff Styles did the styling and set building.

Creating this image required a lot of production.

I selected the photographer, handled the casting of the human and animal talent, hired the stylists, and worked on finding the background image.

Believe it or not we got the real costume and guitar for this from the rock band KISS. The boots did not fit our subject so we had to tape them on and then do a bunch of retouching work. The makeup artist working on this was very excited to be working on this, everyone it seems was a childhood KISS fan.

This combines a studio and location shot with a lot of retouching by the photographer.

This image was one that I got in for PhotoShelter from someone who was a friend of another contributor, and it's really one of those pictures that's kind of under someone's bed. The photographer works in another field and this was a personal photo of his. It's actually a horizontal but he uploaded it vertically by accident and the magazine loved it that way. It turned out to be the only cover of a US mag that the PhotoShelter Collection got before it folded.

Getting this scenario shot required a lot of negotiation with the agent for the athlete. Many stories were done on the fact that he was a painter as well as a pro golfer, and they were wary of that. We wanted to illustrate it in a more innovative way than had been done before.

This is one of my favorite stories I ever worked on at Golf.

The original concept for this shot was to include a clown costume that was cast off on the facing page. The photographer went with something much more simple and profound and I fought to keep it true to that clearer way of seeing the story.

The last photo ever taken of Byron Nelson.

by David Burnett

This image involved a location scout trip as well as some post production work. The mountain was brought a lot further forward. The foreground area was enhanced to give a pretty flat landscape some more depth

Sylvia did some haunting pictures of this story on the South Fork in the off season.

This story won the 2006 ASME award for Leisure Interests.

This is one of those rare handout images that is really incredible.

This is actually a miniature set looking out to a photograph that was a handout from the golf course.

We looked into stock images of french doors but none of them had the right architecture or luxury feel.

When we costed out building a full size set with the prop stylist, we realized it was far cheaper to do with dollhouse scale furnishings.

Jeff Styles did the styling and set building.

Creating this image required a lot of production.

I selected the photographer, handled the casting of the human and animal talent, hired the stylists, and worked on finding the background image.

Believe it or not we got the real costume and guitar for this from the rock band KISS. The boots did not fit our subject so we had to tape them on and then do a bunch of retouching work. The makeup artist working on this was very excited to be working on this, everyone it seems was a childhood KISS fan.

This combines a studio and location shot with a lot of retouching by the photographer.