365 Book: Step 1

So tomorrow morning I’ve got an appointment with a literary agent. It’s the first in what I imagine will be many such meetings with a lot of different people in an attempt to get a book made from the 365 Portraits project I finished a few weeks ago.  I’ve got my portfolio ready. I’ve got my book proposal ready. I’ve even got sample pages ready. I’m a fairly rational person and I’ve done as much research as I could, but I still have… Read More

Sally by Firelight

It’s amazing what you can do with a duraflame log and 3200 iso on a 5D with a wide open prime lens.   Ok, that’s a lot of conditions.  Still amazing.  ;-P Read More

Once more, with color

Here are a few from today’s walk with the M4. I wanted to try come color film, but only had an old roll of crappy kodak gold 200. It was fun nonetheless. Don’t worry, starting this weekend I’ll get back to more of the normal portraiture that I’m known for. I’m feeling very anxious to start climbing the creative mountain again. It’s time to start really pushing myself and taking chances.   Read More

Street Photography And Me, Imperfect Together

As most of you know, I take portraits.  Or rather I mainly take portraits.  Other stuff is usually relegated to snapshots when I travel.  However the Leica is the classic tool of street photographers, so I thought I’d give it a shot.  What I learned is that it’s fun to walk around with a rangefinder, and that I should stick to portraiture because I’m not much of a street photographer. <sigh> Anyway, here are a few photographs from today’s… Read More

The Leica M

Ever since I really got interested in photography a couple years ago, there has always been the  Excalibur of cameras, the Leica.  Or more specifically, the Leica M series which was introduced in 1954.  The Leica was the camera of Cartier-Bresson and Capa and Winogrand and a billion other famous photographers.  It’s a small, metal, nearly bulletproof 35mm camera which after over 50 years of revision, has undergone little change. I’ll admit, I’ve… Read More

So it begins.

It’s now 5 days since I finished my 365 portraits project and I’m feeling very irritable because I haven’t been taking any pictures.  Not that I’ve been sitting on my hands or anything.  I’ve been working on my book proposal, and starting the process of finding a gallery, etc.   But those things are not nearly as interesting to me as actually taking the pictures. So I’ve decided to start this new, perhaps more conventional blog… Read More