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Month of Monochrome: Progress Report

June 13, 2012 | No comments yet

Just wanted to report that my month+ of shooting black and white for all my personal work is still going strong, though I’ve snuck a color image or two in there because the colors were so epic and I couldn’t resist. I’ve also used black and white for some paid work, just not exclusively. Hope […]

Always Photograph For Yourself

June 5, 2012 | One comment

Though you may find yourself shooting photos for other people, always remember to shoot for yourself as well. Find those things that compelled you to pick up a camera in the first place. Photograph things that you love, and don’t worry if anyone else will love them. Remember that even though you have a hundred […]

Walk Along the Eno

June 4, 2012 | No comments yet

No musings today, just a monochrome from a walk along the Eno River in Durham. The colors were so pretty this day it was hard to shoot only in black and white, but I like the results. At least 94% of what I enjoy about this photo is that I took it as part of […]

A Month of Monochrome: First Impressions

May 30, 2012 | No comments yet

A little over two weeks ago, I declared that for all my personal work, I would shoot in black and white exclusively. So far, I’ve kept to it, for the most part. I have over a month to go, but have already taken a number of photos in various types of monochrome. So far, I’ll […]

Fun Day at the Lazy 5 Ranch

May 23, 2012 | No comments yet

Yes, yes, I know–that title image is in color, when I just recently wrote that I was going to shoot in black and white exclusively for more than a month. The purpose of placing such a creative limitation on yourself is to force you out of a comfort zone, force you to look at things […]

Falls Lake Reflections

May 16, 2012 | No comments yet

I wish I had a better name for this photo, because it represents some of my favorite things about the South. I love the North Carolina clouds and spring thunderstorms. I’m not sure that I could live anywhere that didn’t have thunderstorms or, even though I swear I hate them, those muggy afternoons before the […]

More Than a Month of Monochrome

May 12, 2012 | No comments yet

As a creative challenge, and because I LOVE black and white, I have decided to shoot/process all of my personal work for the rest of May and the whole month of June in monochrome. Maybe partly due to the announcement of the Leica M Monochrom (codename Henri–yes, that Henri) and partly because a short audit […]

Sol Food Mobile Farm

May 9, 2012 | No comments yet

I have been struggling this evening with the subject of my next blog post, so I thought instead I might feature and promote The Sol Food Mobile Farm, the lifelong dream of my friend Eliza Bordley and three of her longtime friends, Dylan Hammond, Reid Rosemond, and Ellen Duda. I haven’t met Ellen, but the […]

The OM-D: A Sea Change, Part II

May 5, 2012 | No comments yet

At the end of my last blog post, I found my writing devolving into a contradictory discussion of vision and creativity vs. equipment. The first half was about the OM-D and how it represents great technology and opportunity, and then went on to ramble and rant about how the equipment doesn’t really matter. It didn’t […]

The OM-D: A Sea Change, Part I

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Okay, so the title of this one is a little bit punny. If you’ve followed my blog at all (there might be one or two people, or the voices in my head), you know that I have been looking for a small camera to replace the behemoths that I have carried around for the last […]