The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#1]
© All rights reserved. obama in dallas [reunion arena] – For the excitement that the election provided in 2008. For the kindness of a stranger, a kindness that positioned me close enough to the then Senator to enable me to get the photo. For the love that I have for photojournalism. For Barack Obama. But […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#2]
© All rights reserved. passionate earth – I set out fairly early in 2008 to do something I hadn’t done yet in my photography — create a series of intentionally unified images. The result, my red series, or as I refer to it, passionate earth. To date, I have eighteen completed photos in the series, […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#3]
© All rights reserved. Backstage with Tyann Clement – In March of 2008, I spent four days taking a workshop at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, a portrait/lighting workshop taught by the very creative Frank Ockenfels. The workshop was a valuable one because Frank really freed us up to experiment with lights (most of the […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#4]
© All rights reserved. fog season – I’m not feeling so hot and don’t currently have the chops to write something interesting, so I’ll let my recent “video,” kindred spirits and big fish, (below) speak to my feelings about going out on the road, exploring new places and seeking out the things that keep me […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#5]
© All rights reserved. hurricane ike [we dream. houston] – As we close out 2008, I find myself a bit too banged up to write, sidelined with a bad upper-respiratory infection and the “shrapnel” left over from an ovarian cyst explosion. Nothing that modern medicine can’t handle, though! Medicine, however, doesn’t cure all kinds of […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#6]
© All rights reserved. I got holes in both of my shoesWell I’m a walking case of the bluesSaw a dollar yesterdayBut the wind blew it awayGoin’ back to Houston, Houston, Houston -Dean Martin downtown – “It’s the economy, Stupid!” James Carville was onto something when he turned that phrase back in 1992. Today, the […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#7]
© All rights reserved. on the eve of a swan song – I have to admit, when working with a human subject in my photography, nerves tend to get the best of me. This is none more true than when I am working with an artist whom I admire. That was clearly the case when […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#8]
© All rights reserved. Blackbird flyBlackbird flyInto the light of the dark black night. -John Lennon/Paul McCartney Four – Borrowing the words from last year’s number four… Morning. Fog. Bird. Nothing more to say really. Another bird photo that likely would have made the list at #11 is blackbird, taken in 2007, but processed in […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#9]
© All rights reserved. All autobiography is self-indulgent. -Daphne du Maurier pastures – It’s an odd thing, compiling a “The Ones I Like” list — highlighting one’s own work. On the internet, we are taught — encouraged — to introduce worthwhile creations by others to the masses — sharing a link here, giving a shout-out […]
The Ones I Like List of 2008 – A Countdown [#10]
© All rights reserved. rose petals – Slight Clutter. It really, really does capture who I am on so many levels. I’ve always found it difficult to settle in somewhere, to plant my flag and say “this is my spot, this is who I am and this is how I will allow you to define […]