Vellum Media photographer Nathan Weber will be arriving in Haiti this afternoon, covering the earthquake for our editorial clients. Nathan will be producing both still image and multimedia, which will be posted as they come in at www.vellummedia.com/haiti.

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Vellum’s co-founder and Director Jim Winn recently returned from a trip to New York City, where he spent several days meeting with several of Vellum’s editorial clients. While it was more of a business trip than a shooting trip this time around, Jim shot a lot of images with his iPhone we thought we’d share a couple.

The second image is looking into the World Trade Center site, where teams from DCM Erectors, Catalyst Contractors Inc., Federated Equipment Equipment and many others have been working furiously to bring the buildings’ framework out of the ground and into the sky.

Vellum founders Jim Winn and Nathan Weber have had the pleasure of being on the workshop staff of the University of Kentucky’s Picture Kentucky Photojournalism workshop over the past three years, and are back in Kentucky this week to assist the workshop staff. This year’s workshop brought 17 photojournalism students to Hindman, Ky., to learn how to tell compelling stories through the use of still photography, video and audio.

Prior to arriving for the workshop, Vellum spent a day with Anaconda Drilling, producing images for the company. We will have some behind the scenes photos from the Picture Kentucky workshop online over the next few days, along with some select images from the Anaconda shoot.

About the workshop:The goal of the Picture Kentucky Workshop Series is to teach students how to tell compelling stories through photographs. In addition to shooting picture stories, students will work toward producing a book, multimedia and a web presentation that will be shared with the university, the host communities and the general public. During that process it is the hope of the workshop’s organizers and financial supporters that the students will share in an intense, fulfilling experience that they will carry with them for a lifetime.

The Picture Kentucky Workshop Series currently consists of a fall, winter and spring workshops that document small towns through out the state of Kentucky.

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Vellum has years of experience in active industrial environments, and retains a devoted commitment to safety and quality. Our team receives annual first aid and safety training, and we are always adding to our list of industrial certifications. For our industrial clients this means they can count on Vellum to safely and professionally work in any of their locations.

Would you let just any person off the street into your manufacturing facility, warehouse or active job site? For the majority of our clients the definite answer is no, because they place a premium on safety in the workplace. Vellum’s actively matches that commitment, so that our clients can rest assured that they are hiring a team that knows how to work safe, and get the job done right.

Once such situation was Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Vellum’s founders Jim Winn and Nathan Weber were in the heart of New Orleans as Katrina rolled in, and documented the arrival of the hurricane and the following response by disaster relief services. One of those images ran a week later on MSNBC.com, and was recently featured again in the site’s slideshow of the most dangerous and costly hurricanes to hit the United States. The image, posted below, was shot by Jim Winn as the full power of the storm moved over the city of New Orleans, and can be seen in MSNBC’s slideshow by clicking here.

Again, experience counts, and Vellum’s team has the professional experience and safety training to get the job done, whether it’s in an industrial environment, or a situation that requires fast thinking and a cool head. While shooting at the peak of the storm Nathan and Jim encountered a man clinging for his life to a piece of drift wood in the flood that had overtaken the city. Vellum’s founders put the cameras down, and used the safety equipment they had on hand to rescue the man and several others in the storm. Their efforts were captured by Zuma Press photographer Edward Linsmier, who is also the co-owner of the Florida commercial photography collective, FLPhotoFirm.

2 Weeks in 2 Minutes – Time Lapse from Vellum Industrial Media on Vimeo.

This time lapse is a section from the DVD recently produced by Vellum Industrial Media for Portable Welding Service in North Carolina. The time lapse recorded a single frame every 5 seconds for the entirety of the two week press rebuild project, which in its final form is compressed to a two minute piece.