The Two Year Time Lapse
The BBC, inspired by such films as Baraka, has brought a revolution to mainstream documentary filmmaking, specifically Planet Earth and now Life. Many of the mind-blowing shots are done on location, but several would be impossible to do out in the randomness of the great outdoors. The below behind-the-scenes video demonstrates what it takes (and how long it takes) to get some of the shots that we all look at with amazement while walking through Best Buy looking for where the... Read More
New Look
I’m giving a new look to my blog. The photos will be larger, EXIF data like shutter speed, f/stop, ISO and camera type will be posted in the left column and links to other blog entries are now at the bottom of each page. Background and text colors of the blog will change depending on the color of the photos that I post. There is also an ARCHIVE link on the top of each page with thumbnails to different pics and stories. Also take note of the large left and right... Read More
The Perils of an Open Mind
Absolutes of ideology are succulent butter to people who are in the checklist stage of preparing to sail with Greenpeace, pasting enlarged dead baby photos to poster boards, annoying their coworkers into voting for someone or screaming about the dangers of running with scissors. Read More Read More
Leadworks of Time
Tonight I had dinner with someone who asked me about having a backup plan if the whole photography thing didn’t work out. I thought for a while and responded that most of my career has been spent in the less-affluent side of things due to the fact that I never wanted to “sell out” and take a job I thought too distant from photography or videography. The closest I came to falling off the path was working for a website company as their videographer. I... Read More
The Direction
Morality is a giant flock of birds, every one joining and leaving as necessary to fulfill their immediate ambitions, the overall shape and direction coming from the collective emergence of the many. There are those who would enliven the flock and those who would laugh at its destruction. Today I flow on my own, straggling as always uninvolved from a distance where I can take my impressions without influencing my subject. I pass along that which I can confidently say is... Read More
Easter Bunny Kills 9. Escapes.
After an exhaustive five-minute Google search on egg-related death statistics in America and coming up with almost no usable results, I stumbled across a very interesting fact about the Black Widow Spider. As some of you may already know, the Black Widow Spider is named for her truly confusing behavior of killing off her male suitors after mating with them. I’m guessing that Psycho Killer Slut Spider was either taken or didn’t translate well into Latin, the... Read More
Unfettered Brain
Tonight as my sister, niece and I looked out from the roof-top deck at the rising dusk, my niece said, “Good morning, night.” Even though she is three, I am inspired by her sideways approach to everyday things. One day, after I sang the phrase, “too many monkeys,” during a long walk, we transformed the conversation into a game where we said, “No more _____.” Could be anything. No more airplanes. No more apples. No more chicken... Read More
