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.

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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.

Vellum Industrial Media’s Jim Winn was invited to speak Tuesday at “Conquering the Conventional: Because journalism isn’t dying and neither are we,” a forum organized by the Student Publications department at the University of Kentucky.  As a former newspaper photojournalist with a degree in photojournalism from Western Kentucky University, Winn served as one of four panelists who discussed alternative jobs for graduates in the midst of news of layoffs at newspapers around the country.

The other panelists included Stephen George, editor of LEO Weekly, Saraya Brewer, managing editor of Chevy Chaser and Southsider Magazines, and Rob Theakston, editor of Moodmat.com. May May Barton, Kernel Kernel design adviser and previous design director for the Herald-Leader, served as the moderator for the forum.