Editing the background…
So, I learned early on in photography that backgrounds are a significant part of the photograph. It is basic Photo 101 stuff to talk about “mergers” and distracting backgrounds. Now,…
Natural beauty…
This is a Leica fanboy post. Normal readers: avert your eyes. I was really sorry to burst my own bubble. It rather ruined the mystique of the idea that I…
Captured happy…
Real emotion caught in a photograph is a special thing. It is a often-fleeting moment frozen forever. Intensity, anger, peace, happiness… And the importance of a photo, I think, is…
Links and lights…
Every-once-in-a-while there comes an opportunity to do something fairly unusual with my trade as a photojournalist. Photographing people on stage, performing on the court or the field, being out in…
The brief seconds of Madrid…
Sometimes, I will make a photo that, if I only took one that entire day – sometimes entire week! – I would be content. For some reason, something technically, aesthetically,…
I and people…
There is no part of my job in which I am not required to deal with people. And sometimes, lots of people. People… is what it is all about. Interacting…
A cold day to be so cool…
…at the mall. At the mall. It was somebody’s Prom or Senior Banquet or Spring Formal or something today. Not to be a nudge, but… it was 38ºF outside. Its…
Sweetheart of the day…
Every once in a while, you’ll come across someone who is extremely difficult to work with. Thankfully that doesn’t come up too very often. But then, you have someone who…
…and ya get to meet people!
Just about every career and every job comes with the line “…and you get to meet and interact with interesting people!” Now, “interesting” is an extremely relative term: you’ll, by…
In plain sight… (Part 1)
Its nothing new, and quite obvious, but in every city across the nation, there are the back alleys and side streets that most people don’t see – or rarely ever…