Legacy Portraits on Film and Inspiring Photo Essays
It's a wonder to me that anyone would discard or sell their family photographs, but it happens time and again. I was at a local estate sale yesterday and saw a tackle box full of slide film from the 1970s in boxes and couldn't help but want to have them for my snapshot collection. You... Continue Reading →
What is the need for the biggest and best most expensive gear? I was out and about this weekend and saw protesters for the Black Lives Matter movement in my town and made photographs in both digital format with a Nikon D610 and 35mm and 120 film in a Leica M3 and a Rolleiflex 2.8C.... Continue Reading →
While digital photography and technology are here to stay, TRUST is the one thing of utmost importance for news/media companies to maintain as we enter a new world of Deepfakes. [Deepfakes (a portmanteau of "deep learning" and "fake") are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone... Continue Reading →
Being both a photographer (documentary/street) and a writer (stand-up comedy/screenplays), I came to the realization that there is a correlation between the two. Because both require something of me. See, I carry a Leica and notebook everywhere I go. When my parents took photographs when I was growing up, they took them out at Christmas,... Continue Reading →
Unless they can see the difference. Many people cannot see the difference. So, many people don't care what camera you use. The camera doesn't define you, or make your work. You do! You define your work. Here's proof. This photographer shot 100 different cameras, and yet the work all looks similar. Because it's not the... Continue Reading →
I was working last week on a photo shoot for a client in Philadelphia, and I traveled across the country so I could bring a full portrait studio, and also so I could stop in towns across the U.S. and make photographs for my Roy Stryker photo project. In my travels, I met a couple... Continue Reading →
PEOPLE, PASSIONS, SUCCESSES & DREAMS I'm working on a photography project where I put a question to people on the street. "What are you famous for?" Their answers can be current, or post-dated. WhatAreYouFamousFor.com - (Follow here, the photographs are much better displayed than on Facebook.) The question has made people consider what do they... Continue Reading →
If you're a film photographer who shoots documentary photographs in the U.S, I want you. Roy Stryker created the FSA photography collection to document real life in America during the Depression Era. He was brilliant. He created a resource with a goal of 'Showing America to Americans'. And the photographs changed the way people... Continue Reading →
I work as a professional photographer in Boulder, Colorado, shooting portraits, business headshots, and commercial projects for clients like the U.S. Air National Guard and U.S. Air Force, food and drink for Whitewave/Silk and American Homestead Meats, and event coverage for companies in the cable industry. On a recent day off, I decided to take... Continue Reading →
If you like a daily affirmative talks about photography, take a look at my Inspiring Photo Talks Web Page with just that, photo talks. Short, positive, fun talks about all things (mostly analog) photography.
