Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. –Henri Frederic Amiel
This morning, as I drank my coffee and scrolled through my Facebook feed, I was struck by all that is wonderful and terrible about the Internet. To be sure, there is much to love, and much to despise. There is the sharing, the community, the communication, the mingling of ideas that creates new things that […]
No, I didn’t forget anything–my dirty, well-used iPhone 4 is the only thing that should be in the photo, because that’s all I’m taking with me. I don’t shoot sports professionally, I’m not getting a paycheck, I’m not on photo assignment. I am going to a ballgame, with my family, to have fun and eat […]
Whenever I get the opportunity to see striking photographs from great photographers, I try to take advantage of it and make it a photographic pilgrimage of my own. Sadly, the last time I was able to make a photo-centric trip was back in 2010, when I flew to New York City to see Henri Cartier-Bresson’s […]
I may have made a mistake. It was calculated, rational, carefully thought through, but still, probably, a mistake. At the beginning of the year, I started focusing on trying to make at least part of my living from photography. Really, I wanted more time to focus on, and think about, making good photographs and seeing […]
The score of Beck’s “Saint Dude” indicates an “Abiding” tempo. One of the songs is titled “The Title of This Song.” Song Reader is party honky tonk, part electronic, part rock, and all Beck. I had the good luck to find out that the extremely talented New Music Raleigh would be playing the whole “album” at […]
I recently had a couple of photo gigs–photographing vintage dolls and doing some promo shots for the very talented Karen and Shawn Galvin of New Music Raleigh–that involved so much gear I elected not to do a “What’s in My Camera Bag?” because the logistics were too tiresome. There was a ThinkTank Airport International bag […]
This spring in Durham we have had a stretch of cool, drippy, cloudy weather that reminds me more of Seattle than North Carolina. Where we have temperatures lingering in the sixties this year, we usually have muggy eighties. I am enjoying the cooler weather, and even the rain. Even though it’s not always fun to get […]
***NOTE: I wrote this blog post back in August of last year, and have rediscovered it while doing some website housecleaning. Therefore, some of the future happenings are now past happenings–each of the weddings I photographed was a wonderful celebration. It is appropriate to have found it now, when photography IS my focus and when […]
