I recently did my first international assignment. It was for the Harvard Business Manager, which is the German version and a sister to, the Harvard Business Review. I actually thought it was somebody playing a joke on me when a woman named Heidi called my cell phone from Hamburg, Germany. It was odd that her number showed up on the caller i.d. with no dashes between the numbers. They needed an environmental portrait of Joe LaBianca, an associate professor for Management and International Center for Research on Social Networks in Business at the University of Kentucky. It turned out to be a good shoot with Joe and one of his doctoral classes, who were in the middle of a social networking research project that had received quite a bit of national and international attention. Here is what I shot, and here is what they used.