Missed Opportunities
I joined a group of friends last night to go photograph the last night launch of the space shuttle. NASA being NASA, the launch got canceled due to changing weather. We were left standing there on a freezing beach at 4:30 AM. Some folks did some light painting. I just turned the camera in the opposite direction and left the shutter open for five minutes. Other people went home with no pictures at all. Sometimes, what you get is what you make of it.
A Slight Diversion and a New Blog
I recently created another blog specific to my interest in Photography. While I haven’t exactly been burning up the Internet with posts on this one, I think I’m about to make some changes. Part of the reason I’ve not written here quite so often is my frustration with Movable Type – just signing in pisses me off. The new blog is under Word Press and I’m thinking it’s time to change everything to that platform. While MT is fine for corporate accounts & Britney Spears, who can hire developers to tinker around with it, it’s just a giant pain in the ass for a guy like me who only wants a decent configuration tool so he can get to the business of writing. MT’s online configuration tool is laughable. Until I can...
The Path to Zion
I’m taking a moment to brag. It’s not a huge thing, but this photo was selected as the Image of the Week at the NAPP Member Portfolio site. At least it was enough to make me smile. http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/
Koi Toy
Model Ashley Simone displays the art of 2007 World Body Painting Champion Carolyn Roper during the FABAIC in Orlando. I wanted to post this as a contrast to yesterday’s black and white image. Most body art that I’ve viewed seem to use similarly vibrant colors. In my opinion, this piece was one of the stand-out works during the show. That’s not to say that other artists didn’t create jaw dropping work; they did. This one just happens to be my favorite.
Old Skool Nymph
Sometimes you see an image in color and it just screams out for black and white. That was the case, for me anyway, with this image I shot of Abby Trent at the Face and Body Art International Conference this past week in Orlando. In most cases, body art is so vibrant in color that it’s a shame to either desaturate it or change to black and white. To be fair, I thought the original color image was charming. However, I began to feel more inclined to show the lines here instead of the colors.
City by the Bay
I spent the early part of this week on a business trip in San Francisco. It’s been ten years since my last visit and I didn’t take any photos on previous visits. Although I had very limited time, I marked up a bunch of potential locations to shoot if the opportunity presented itself. I made a few, but missed most of them. One thing I’d forgotten was just how confusing it is for a stranger to navigate in San Francisco. If I made this comment to the locals, they’d invariably blame it on the one-way streets. That wasn’t my problem, though. I can deal with one-way streets. What confuses me is when a street isn’t where I think it’s supposed to be. Here’s an example. My hotel was on 8th Street. The first issue is...