Diner Cover Shoot

The April 7th issue of College Times was dedicated to local restaurants and locally grown produce. Because of that my editor was hoping for a 50's-style pin-up diner cover, so I went location scouting for local diners in the Phoenix area. My assistant editor suggested a place called Mac Alpine's on 7th St. & Oak.

Stepping into Mac Alpine's was like stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting... It was the perfect setting, and the waitresses were done up in the right outfits, and one in particular had a pin-up style of her own. I approached the owner and the waitress at Mac Alpine's to see if they would like to be featured on our cover. They agreed. So I went back the next day. Here is the result.

Golden Gloves Champion Luis Olivares

We recently did a feature story on 18-year-old boxing phenom Luis Olivares. He's been boxing since he was 8 years old, won his first fight by knock out when he was 9, and has made a habit of beating people down in the ring in the years since.

Olivares recently won the state and regional Golden Gloves championships and is poised to take the top prize on the national stage on his way to his ultimate goal of representing the United States in England as the 152-lb member of the US Olympic Boxing Team.

Here is the stylized cover made to look like a classic boxing poster, and a number of extra photos from the photo shoot.