photo of the day: soul

Sunday night a friend and I drove over to The Globe Theater in Berlin to see The OC Originals. This is a project started by Wes Davis in which very talented local musicians get together for an evening and share their original work. The slogan is "no cover and no covers!" It was an incredibly fun evening, and despite the fact that I felt like I was dying (the next day I came down with the black death--well, either that or the flu--but you know how it is) I managed to pull out a few images that I liked. Sadly, I cannot remember this gentleman's name. I'm completely blaming that on my illness.

photo of the day: the white shirt project

I'm presenting next week at Ignite Sussex, and as I've been working on the slides I got the motivation I needed to start a project that has been percolating for while: the white tshirt project. Eventually I plan to have black and white prints of bunches of my friends mounted on the walls of my living room, but I started with the ten people I had handy last night. (Yes, there are only nine in the collage. Ten is much harder to fit into a rectangle.) 

The point that the images go with for the presentation, however, is this: the part of my job that I love, the reason I can't take pictures of houses or flowers or rocks, is there is this moment, after you shove someone in front of a camera, when suddenly they relax, you connect, they look at the camera, forget it's there, and see you. And that smile, that moment of realness, is what I live for.



(You can view a larger version here, and the whole set is here. I'll be adding to it eventually.)

allison & patrick family pictures

It was literally freezing at the beach--our eyes were watering and we were all shivering. But Allison and her mum and sis were troopers (as was Patrick, of course!) and the pictures look amazing. Of course. I have a hard time taking bad pictures of these two.

samantha's senior pictures

I did two sessions with Sam; one while there was still snow on the ground and one after it got warmer. She was a great sport the whole time, and willing to try pretty much anything. I was impressed throughout the shoot with how effortlessly gorgeous she is. Click below to see some of my favorites from both sessions.