WKU’s Architecture
While digging through my archives I pulled out this old set of photos for a yearbook assignment.
What you will see are photos from around the Western Kentucky University campus. This was the first time I used a tilt-shift lens checked out from our trusty photo department checkout. And a thanks to Melanie Blanding for letting [...]
Website Under Construction
As I prepare to head off to Egypt I am rebuilding my website one last time. Please excuse the mess.
With Wordpress as my CMS I hope all future websites will be just upgrades instead of complete rewrites.
25 Best Photojournalism Blogs and News Sources
I went through all my RSS feeds and picked out my favorite sources of photography news. It’s biased towards photojournalism and tries to highlight original work more than equipment porn or industry rumor sites.
Leave suggestions for additions in the comments section.
The Industry Sources
Burn Magazine – New photojournalist work. This is David Alan Harvey’s project, voted [...]
What would a foreigner think if they saw one of our parades?
I don’t get to fit humor into many of my photographs, but the bottom two are supposed to fit that bill.
I really like these diptychs and triptychs of photos that I just happened to shoot beside each other. Next time I go out I think I’ll try to do them purposefully. With two [...]
Disposable cameras were buy-one-get-one-free at Publix
This is the first of three posts that I shot around South Florida on a disposable camera.
Before I shot this photo I had pre-visualised those branches, I just remembered that it came from Christian Hansen’s “We stopped at perfect days” essay.
I bought the high-end Kodak HD with flash. Each came with 27 pictures on [...]
Rocket Ride Video From Art Basel
After a busy afternoon of photography on South Beach I caught up with Liz and her friends at the Art Basel exhibits and we roamed around until the morning.
At one point we were in eating ribs in the street when we heard this alien noise. We went searching it out and found this rocket [...]
Moonlighting as a Wedding Photographer
I’ll think of something to say about it soon enough. For now I just want to share these photos that I shot last month with Ed at The Breakers in West Palm Beach a few weeks ago.
These were all shot on my Leica M6 with an older 35/1.4 lens and some Tri-X film. [...]
How to fix the Arabic Keyboard on a mac
In my previous post, “Is the Arabic keyboard on Mac missing ذ and ّ ?” I pointed out how the Arabic Keyboard on the mac doesn’t follow the standard layout.
But a Todd Gewecke on Apples Support forum helped me out.
To type “ذ” (also known as thal, or U+0630) press [Option] + [3] on Arabic PC [...]
Room in Khartoum
I was going back through my images from Sudan and ran across this one. Quiet pictures rarely see the light of day but I still like them.
How To Meet With New York Photo Editors
This is my first time making the rounds of New York and I remember how intimidating the idea was while in college so I’m writing a post to help demystify the process.
This post is to help me critique myself and I’ve only done this once so if any more experienced photographer want to jump in [...]
No Internet in Xinjiang for 15 weeks
Upon returning to the US I kept in contact with a couple of Uighur friends in Xinjiang over IM and occasionally Skype. When the rioting ocured a few months ago I expected the internet to be cut off for a few days, maybe a week. But for the past 15 weeks I haven’t [...]
Leica M9 review at PDN Photo Plus Pro
In between talking with editors I stopped by the largest photo conference around. I could tell the content was targeted to a different audience when the first large booth advertised Nikon’s consumer cameras by having a couple of models photographing each other as they sat on Vespas with a backdrop of Rome.
One highlight of the [...]
Subtle Food Photography. Does it work?
Anyone that has seen my twitter account has probably seen this picture already, but I finally got the film scanned in New York.
This is one of those times that I put a lot of effort and ideas into an image and it comes out just as I envision it, but everyone I’ve shown it too [...]
Key West Portrait
The first portrait was of a couple from France, I’m going to have to return and shoot a bunch more like this.= of the kitsch in the Florida Keys.
I forgot the restaurant but it was on Deer Island Key, but there were dollar bills plastered around the walls and light that just sung.
There is obviously [...]
Simplified Food Photography
I have a lot more respect for food photographers. Setting this up in my living room and perfecting it took more than 6 hours. But in the end I got what I envisioned, a super simplified piece of food photography, if you can call it that.
The Atlantic Ocean on 4×5
Nothing special here, just a long exposure of the ocean with the ol’ 4×5 and some black and white Polaroid film (fp-100b).
Spirituality in the Suburbs
The enclaves of Boca Raton, FL can play havoc on the mind.
Thank you Liz.
Some Airport in Central US
I forgot which hub I was at with a few hours to burn waiting for my next flight. In those hours I probably only took 3 photographs. This was one of them.
Food on Hasselblad
We had an assignment at a new hip restaurant in Miami. While shooting most of the time on the 5D MarkII I had enough time to pull out the Hasselblad.
The Beach on Leica and Tri-X
These were just a few images that I shot for fun when some college buddies came down for spring break. This could be recreated in photoshop but it is more interesting in the natural scans.
The Beach on a Hasselblad
I’ve been playing around with different formats and cameras trying to find a specific look. For a few weeks I got my hands on an old Hasselblad CM/500. Every day as the sun went down I’d walk the beach and take a few pictures.
Photos of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek to Osh
I spent a few weeks in Kyrgyzstan waiting for a chance to get back into China. These are a few of the images.
The view in south Bishkek.
On the road between Bishkek and Osh there is a transition of landscapes from craggy mountains that the van putters up to flowing valleys.
The central park of [...]
