When I got the call one day in April from London to shoot for Monocle, I jumped all over it. Yes I’d been waiting for them to call for a while. It was one of those ” can you shoot it for us tomorrow and have the pics for us to look at in London the following morning”. Seems like there’s a lot of that in publishing. The job required me to plain and simple go and shoot the new terminal at Mineta San Jose Intl Airport here in California. The photo editor was expecting a nice brand spanking new terminal and what I found was a half finished construction site. I had to pick my way around some angles to disguise it, make it look all shiny and new. I think I managed alright except when I quite deliberately didn’t try to. I donned a hard hat and a bright orange jacket given to be by the those in charge and off I went around the place free to roam. The thing that bugged me about this building was the failure to implement any solar panels in the design. For a city that gets on average 300 days of sunshine a year I thought that was quite odd and more than a little annoying. Here’s the article and a few of my outtakes.