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Getting Settled In
So, it’s finally official. Dr. Fiance and I arrived in Saint Louis Wednesday afternoon and now we are in the process of getting settled into our new pad. I’m sitting in our soon to be office next to a while lot of windows, which is a wonderful change after 10 years of cubicle life. I [...]
Cafe Office
I am a little over a week before my move from New York, and the reality of the situation is starting to sink in. At the beginning of June (due to circumstances that were so completely New York and beyond my control) we left our apartment in the East Village to move into a sublet [...]
Dance Parade!
While packing for the big move this weekend, I was surprised to hear a massively loud drum line outside my apartment. I’d noticed metal police barricades up along Saint Marks Place but didn’t really think there would be a parade on my little street. But parade there was, the 4th Annual NYC Dance Parade. It [...]
Sabi Sands Game Reserve
I just got back from a much needed vacation in South Africa. As I head back to the office tomorrow, I have visions of fearsome and not so fearsome animals to keep me company. Part of my vacation was spent in Sabi Sands, a private game reserve near Kruger National Park. We stayed at the [...]
Broadway, 7th Avenue, Morning
The cross streets of New York City align directly with the sunrise and sunset at certain times of the year. When I’m walking to work in the morning these days and I glance to the right at intersections I’m met with the intense rays of the sun, blocking out nearly everything in sight, even with [...]
Underneath the California Sky
In the fall when I was out in San Francisco shooting for Connect magazine, I met up with a friend of mine and we climbed the hills across the Golden Gate Bridge and looked out at the sea. The ocean is one of the things that never ceases to amaze me about the west coast. [...]
Christina
Dr. Girlfriend and I love our apartment, but it is on the dark side. There isn’t a great deal of light from the windows. However, for a few brief moments a day the sun is angled properly to squeeze between the buildings around us and some gorgeous light muscles it’s way into our living room.
Post Project Blues
There is always excitement about finishing a project. Especially if it’s a project that you have been working on, or thinking about, or conceptualizing for months. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was finally able to work on some of the ideas that had been bouncing around in my head that I’d been procrastinating about for [...]
Affecting Change
I know it’s a little early for starting to think about the new year, but 2010 is shaping up to be a year full of lots of changes. While it is much too early to talk about some of the big changes that may happen, the possibility of change has been on my mind a [...]
Bottle Shock and Wine
I was going through some of my images working on my portfolio and I put on the movie Bottle Shock in the background. I was working on a selection of lifestyle images and I kept seeing beautiful landscapes of Napa Valley on the TV. Dr. Girlfriend and I spent a luxurious few days in Napa [...]
Transportation In Washington DC
Here are a few transportation related images I made while on a trip to Washington DC this past week.
Cabbage
Here are some more garden photographs that I made recently in PA. I think these go quite well with the corn photos from last week. I absolutely love the color and the complexity.
End of the world
I was in Martha’s Vineyard last weekend (along with the President and the Clintons, apparently) visiting some friends who were vacationing there from California. We were fortunate to get the use of a guest house outside of town in Oak Bluffs near a lake, which proved to be a great spot to watch the Friday [...]
Into the sun
I was in PA for a wedding last weekend, and I took the opportunity to photograph things that I’m normally not able to do. In this case I went into a cornfield and made some images. I have been experimenting with some counter-intuitive methods of making photographs outdoors, since my efforts thus far have been [...]
Identifing as a Photographer
Rockefeller Center on a warm February day, iPhone I was out celebrating the 30th birthday of a friend last night. It was one of those events where several of her friend circles came together, so I ended up talking to a lot of people that I hadn’t met before, and so therefore was frequently asked [...]
Moody Friday Goodness
I have a few shots to share from a while back that I’m finally processing. I had just gotten my 50mm 1.4 and was playing around with it wide open. The depth of field is so short it has this crazy ethereal quality.
Obama Inauguration in Times Square
One of the first things I did when I moved to New York was to spend a weekend protesting in Times Square. I’d been in the city for just under a month at the time of the election and since I didn’t officially have an address yet, I hadn’t registered to vote. But that fall [...]
Faces of Hope
On a frigid day in January 2009 I ventured out with thousands of fellow New Yorkers celebrating the end of a dark era in American politics. Despite the sub-zero wind chill we watched the giant TV screens in Times Square as Barak Obama recited the oath of office for the presidency of the United States.
Film
I’m reading that new Leibovitz book and am enjoying the hell out of it. I love photographer biographies, and although this one is more along the lines of discussions about photos, she does it in a more or less chronological order, and you can see how the work progresses over time. The book is not [...]
Portfolio Review
I’m stuck at work this week without any actual work to be done. When I look at my office IM system, the only people on the job are the ones in my department, waiting for the ones who aren’t in our department to bring us some work. Which ain’t going to happen. But I’m not [...]
Victoria
Sometimes I fall in love with a photo I’ve taken and can’t stop looking at it. This was an outtake from a shoot yesterday and I keep coming back to it. It’s fantastic when a standard sit n’ pose corporate portrait yields something like this:
Apple Picking
Dr. Girlfriend as Eve… Over the weekend we went upstate a ways to go apple picking, something that Dr. Girlfriend has been begging to do for a long time. Having grown up with apple trees in my yard, it’s hard for me to understand her obsession with manual labor of this sort, but I likes [...]
David Alan Harvey Workshop Party
On Friday night, Dr. Girlfriend, my friend Tim and I trekked out to Brooklyn to the loft/studio of photographer David Alan Harvey. David has a workshop called At Home with David Alan Harvey that he puts on twice a year. He describes the class like this: i will spend “one on one” time with each [...]
Driving
I don’t own a car and therefore don’t get to drive often. But when I do I drive million miles an hour, like a spaceship. Kidding mom, just kidding. In reality the car* I was in doesn’t do much more than 55 so I wasn’t going that fast. Pretty happy with the results though. *The [...]