A couple snaps of Stacy from this week. The weather’s been good, I got a camera and in-house model, might as well be makin’ photos.
color vs. black & white
22Feb10I was out scouting portrait locations with my beautiful wife this past weekend and have a question to pose. What is the best way to determine if a photo should be shown in color or black and white? I’ve got some thoughts on this but would love to know what you think.
insight
06Feb10As far as I’m concerned, a photographer is a medium through which images are channeled, and that’s the important thing to understand. Photographers themselves are many different kinds of people…that’s interesting in and of its own right, but it’s not the important thing and it’s certainly not the message. The important thing is that we are the first link between the outside world and reality, in the chain of events that is known as journalism.
There’s, I think, an innate belief in communication that motivates any photographer. We are not the ones in front of the camera, we’re behind the camera. We’re not performers, we are not athletes, or actors, or dancers–the way we move our bodies is not our message. We are invisible.
-James Nachtwey, from the documentary, War Photographer
pushkar, india
young monk
31Jan10As I am going through photos for an upcoming project, I came across this image from Bodhgaya, India. Bodhgaya is of supreme importance to Buddhist pilgrims and this young boy is one of the numerous monks to visit the Mahabodhit Temple–where Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) attained enlightenment.
