I’ve been hopping these last couple months. I did want to check in here and post a few images from a great business portrait session I did with local tech guy and outdoor enthusiast Doug Theis. Doug was wanting both standard business headshots: …and some that would show his love for the outdoors: We met [...]
Shoot yourself bored; then you can get to the interesting stuff. A big part of my growth has been to get sick of the mundane, then to keep going. “I can’t make this same photo again.” Alright, what’s a new way to look at it then. I think it’s a common problem, and one I [...]
Some images are the culmination of the practicing of ideas; this image here is what comes out of months of practice seeing. All that time spent at home noticing; setting aside the ideas of what a good image is and letting the world speak for itself. But some images really hit home not because they’re [...]
Thinking past the Noticing project, one of the ideas I’ve been wanting to work on is taking the things I’ve learned from that project and shift it to city scenes. In my photographic infancy of a few years back (which is an interesting idea in itself, sometimes I feel like I’ve come such a long [...]
We talk a lot about getting out of our comfort zones, I rather like to think of it more as making new ones. The idea isn’t to be perpetually beyond our skills, but to acquire new skills and ideas to be comfortable with. This seems to be cyclical for me. I get tired of the [...]
With some free time this week I wanted to work on something I’ve had my eye on for a little while. I really like the idea of patterned cookies, like the ones made by LightBreak. LightBreak’s own patterns are fairly pricey, so I thought I’d try making my own. I first thought I’d use something [...]
Here’s wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2010. ’09 went fast! It was a pretty great year for me, photographically, and personally. I have Crohn’s Disease, I’ve had it fifteen years now, maybe? I’ve mostly got it under control, so a mostly healthy year for me is pretty great. A happy and healthy family, solid [...]
With some downtime this week, I’ve been thinking about this blog and how to keep it updated. It’s not like I don’t know how to improve at writing. The Noticing project taught me a lot, and one of them is about how important daily practice is. The trouble is that I don’t enjoy writing in [...]
Like many growing photographers I was for quite a while struggling to find my voice; although I didn’t think of it as a voice at the time, I was “looking for a project”. I had, and have, the understanding that I was working on at least two fronts: the technical and the expressive. While I [...]
Does it count that even though I haven’t been posting here I’ve been thinking of this blog a good bit? So many started posts with ideas I’d like to share, but I never sit down to finish them. I keep waiting for the drive to finish one, but I only ever get the spark to [...]
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