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Don’t Fear Your Vision

April 9, 2013 | No comments yet

For every creative high, there is an inevitable low. After four straight days of shooting the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and with some fun upcoming shoots simmering on the stove, I’m taking a breather in one of those creative valleys. I am happy with the work I’m creating, but I’m also feeling tapped out […]

Reason Eleventybillion932 I Love My Hometown

April 8, 2013 | No comments yet

Love the Durham Bulls!

The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

April 5, 2013 | No comments yet

This week I find myself fortunate to be photographing the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival for the second year in a row. Last year, I was limited to two relatively short days–this year, I’m in it to win it, working four shifts that cover filmmaker introductions, question and answer sessions, parties, awards, milieu, atmosphere. Several […]

la poire et une assiette, le hibou et le lapin

April 3, 2013 | No comments yet

With Easter, and work, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival getting ready to kick off tomorrow, I haven’t been devoting much of my brain to the blog this week. So instead I’ll leave you with some simple images, from which you can draw your own conclusions. I used a French title to make them […]

The Midrange Zoom — The Lens You Love to Hate

March 29, 2013 | No comments yet

Some lenses just don’t get a lot of love. Call them the Rodney Dangerfields of the photographic world–no matter how hard they try, they just can’t get any respect. They can be sharp, they can be useful, they can be fast, but they continue unloved, like the guy that all the girls really like (as […]

Arlington National Cemetery

March 26, 2013 | No comments yet

When we woke up in Alexandria yesterday morning, there was a light dusting of snow on the ground, and more snow falling. It was wet snow, the kind that makes icy snowballs and makes everything else sodden. We were headed home, but on our way, I wanted to make my first trip to Arlington National […]

Remember to Live

March 25, 2013 | No comments yet

I want to share something with you all that I read this morning, since it had such an impact on me. It is an article on busyness, and that most of us are too busy, anxious to fill every nook and cranny of idle time in our lives with something important. Since I quit my […]

The Ubiquitous Lens

March 24, 2013 | No comments yet

I haven’t been to our nation’s capital in about ten years. The last time I was here was before the iPhone, before the iPad, before the avalanche of digital cameras, large and small, simple and sophisticated, in the world marketplace. I’m sure everyone was snapping away then on their film cameras and early digital back […]

Facial Hair and Muscle on Display – Durham Event Photographer

March 19, 2013 | No comments yet

Beauty, brawn, panache–they were all on display this past Saturday, March sixteenth at the First Annual Durham Beard and Mustache Contest at Bull McCabe’s in Downtown Durham. In addition to a great group of men and women sporting all varieties of facial hair, the League of Upper Extremity Wrestling Women of Durham (L.U.E.W.W.D) was also […]

Saving the Best for Last – West Coast Wrapup

March 15, 2013 | 3 comments

My trip to the West Coast was pretty epic, it really was. Here I am, still writing about it and posting photos in March, and I’ve been home since mid-January. I drove over two thousand miles through three states. I visited some of the most interesting and beautiful cities on the West Coast. I drove […]