Writing at Machu Picchu. I could add another point I forgot about. Learn an instrument. Anything. Kazoo. Guitar. Drums. Whatever. Music is another language and opens doors in life. S^%$, I forgot something else. Point number seven. Exercise. Might sound …
Creative: Photography Advice, Educating and Building Trust
“What to do when nobody cares or respects what you are doing?” Hope this post illuminates the kind of photo advice I’m talking about. Not f/stops and lens choices but real world situations. Let me know if this is relevant …
Creative: Photography Advice, History and Looking
Hey, me again. Mr. Photography Helper. You can thank me now or thank me later. Or not. Please address hate mail to P.O.Box 666, Washington D.C. 000000. I’ll have my best people get right on it. On a serious note, …
Creative: Look3 Journal Two
Slow drain. Residue. Left behind once the images make impact. You can’s unsee, unlearn but what you can do is ignore. And we do, but I’m here to tell you something. Look enough and you can’t ignore, or forget. What …
Creative: Look3 Journal One
Fireflies. Streaked like missile trails. Incoming through the muggy Virginia lush. I want to love it here. Rolling, these hills. Like you would want them to be, but mountains on the horizon through the streaked windshield revealing my ignorance. The …
Creative: Armed with Rubber Chickens
I love being blamed for things. Such is the case with “Armed with Rubber Chickens” a book brought to you by photographer/editor Andrew Molitor. This is a custom book. An 8×10 softcover, a collaboration amongst photographers, then edited, designed and …
Creative: Look3
For those of you with an interest in photojournalism you should know about something called Look3 Festival of the Photograph. I’ll be heading to the event early tomorrow and will hopefully see some of you there. This is a perfectly …
Dispatches: Catherine Leutenegger
Every once in a while I find a photographer or a body of work that resonates with me in a very specific way. In the case of Catherine Leutenegger’s “Kodak City” I found a body of work that haunted from …
Real Time Sydney v3 with Garry Trinh
The book is done. Two days. Shoot, print, edit, sequence, design, upload and print. 58-pages. Perfect bound. $14 with shipping. Prior to the completion… Sugar. Tea. Milk. The book build continues. A full day of Garry working. He sits like …
Sydney Journal Eight
Sydney smolders. Smokestack lighting. Vapor trails off a high rise. Moments of wonder. Can I climb down twenty floors? Control burns like a necklace around the Big Smoke. Nature reminds us all of the inevitable. When we go it will …
Sydney Journal Five
Ten photographs. It was a ten photograph day. Total. A day of missed opportunity combined with muddled thoughts about the meaning of just about everything. Doubt. The ideal of a world we dream about but can’t fully know until we …
Sydney Journal Four
A light day. Both in mind and spirit. Tasks. Duties. Movement. The back of my throat moving toward the angry side of the spectrum as my mouth moves in these situations far more than a normal day. The booth for …