A Tribute to Rube Goldberg

Just as I write there's nothing to write about comes this tribute to Rube. Hilarious video. Enjoy.

The problem with commercial photography

Well, it's not really a problem unless you want to blog timely imagery. You see, I've been busy, very, very busy, but I can't show anything. Yet. That's because all the work is for projects that have yet to be printed and clients are a little funny about their images being seen in public before their intended audience gets a peek. Nothing wrong with that except it makes for really boring blog posts. Like this one. So thank you to all the clients who have recently trusted me to produce your work. Rest assured that as soon as I am allowed some images will be shared. Until then the blog will just have to stay rather boring.

Later.

July 4th Freedom!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Like millions of Americans I watched a firework display over the holiday. Not a big computer generated extravaganza, but a simple, small town 'shoot em up and do it again' kinda show. The best part for me was this year I wasn't "working the show" but just being a spectator. Not being a job allowed me to experiment as I would never be able to is someone was paying for guaranteed results.

So I just let them rip and shot what, and how, I wanted -- without a tripod. I knew would be tossing a lot of wiggly jiggly frames, and I did, but I didn't care because I had the freedom to play and see if anything worthwhile came out.

That's the fun in photography, which is exactly why I've spent my life doing what I do.

Technical notes: Leica M9 fitted with a 35 and 90 Summicron lenses respectively. Exposure was a few seconds, hand held, at f/11-16. ISO 200.

New Blog!

Welcome to my new blog. Over the course of time this will become (hopefully) a forum of insight into the life of a photographer and possibly a few nuggets of the accumulated odd bits of wisdom (?) I've gathered over the course of 35 years in this crazy wonderful business. Stay tuned!