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” […]
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 […]
***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 […]
To be a cyclist is to be a student of pain… at cycling’s core lies pain, hard and bitter as the pit inside a juicy peach. It doesn’t matter if you’re sprinting for an Olympic medal, a town sign, a trailhead, or the rest stop with the homemade brownies. If you never confront pain, you’re […]
I spent most of the day yesterday having a ton of fun photographing amateur, pro, and collegiate cycling at the second annual 9th Street Derby in downtown Durham. This is not a paid gig, so I am free to play, and really wanted to nail down my panning technique and get some shots I could […]
Not too long ago, I was contacted by Southern Living magazine regarding stock photos I might have that would communicate Durham’s “essence.” I sent them photos of the Durham skyline, of Brightleaf Square, and of American Tobacco, since those are some of the most distinctly “Durham” features of our city. They ended up focusing on […]
Sometimes, Bad Things happen. Many of them are accidental, or incidental. Many others are purposeful, vengeful. As we grow older, these aggregated threats to our everyday life make us both more appreciative of the value of life, and also more weary. The challenge is in how we carry the burden, and how we pass it […]
A sure sign of spring, I walked outside today to find everything blanketed in fine yellow pollen. Like a forensics kit, the pollen records, temporarily, impressions, tracks, movement. The whorls and peaks of a footprint, singular in their lazy patterns, make their mark.
