Markus Klinko and Indrani File for Bankruptcy

How NOT to do it...

Markus Klinko and Indrani File for Bankruptcy:

"“The business has been devastated by the recession,” explains a filing by Double Exposure Studio, Indrani’s studio. The studio reports liabilities of $100,000 to $500,000 and assets of less than $50,000. Indrani's business apparently owes unpaid taxes; her filing lists the IRS as a debtor."

Advice « PhotoDino

Yep.

Advice « PhotoDino:

"- It’s easier to focus on buying that next piece of equipment than it is to accept that you should be able to create great work with what you’ve got. Buying stuff is a convenient and expensive distraction. You need a decent camera, a decent lens, and a light meter. Until you can use those tools consistently and masterfully, don’t spend another dime. Spend money on equipment ONLY when you’ve outgrown your current equipment and you’re being limited by it. There are no magic bullets."

Ask an Art Buyer: The Essence of Successful Commercial Photography — HeatherMortonArt buyer

Photograph © Mark Zibert

Heather has a nice, concise little essay on Success as a Photographer here. Send it to your clients. If you fit the bill as she describes it. Read the whole thing.

Ask an Art Buyer: The Essence of Successful Commercial Photography — HeatherMortonArt buyer:

"Commercial photography both draws from and influences high art as well as pop culture. Its’ practitioners need to be technicians and visionaries.

The third element in the collaboration (after the Photographer and the Brand), the Consumer, is the most elusive. Certainly from the agencies’ perspective, truly resonating with your key demographic is the most important and sometimes the most difficult job of an ad. If partnered with the right photographer, the ad can reach through the clutter, grab our attention, persuade us to feel a certain way and to act on that thought. A photograph can help us believe in a brand because of what it evokes in us. This resonance is what art has always strived to achieve."

Althouse: Blasphemonomics.

No comment.

Althouse: Blasphemonomics.:

"Part of the genius of Marxism, and a reason for its enduring appeal, is that it fed man's neurotic fear of social catastrophe while providing an avenue for moral transcendence."

Boats on a deck in Mexico. Love how they make a place for things, and space is a premium there

Just a fun little shot from Puerto Penasco.

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A Photo Editor - Selina Maitreya Interview

Selina Maitreya is interviewed at APhotoEditor. BTW... here is your code for getting her MP3 for only $99 instead of the posted $199. (Personally I think it is worth $1999... seriously. Wish I had heard this when I started out.) Here is the code to get the program for $99.00.

Enter this code when purchasing: FOSLET

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A Photo Editor - Selina Maitreya Interview:

"APE: More than usual?

Yes, more so than ever. I have an email list that goes out 8000 photographers who’ve signed up for my articles and last spring I wrote an article entitled “Survive? Think, Thrive!” This was an article that laid out how photographers could build a business today that would thrive in the future. The response was overwhelming, so I responded by giving out my time to try and help people. I gave out 30 hours in April and May. I’m booked solid so I had to make extra time for this. Working with photographers for free inspired me to make something for people who couldn’t afford my $300/hour consultant fee.

I talked to photographers who said they wanted something they could listen to. I wanted to create a learning tool that was informative and inspirational plus I wanted it to be organized so people could easily go to the topics that spoke to their immediate needs. Two of my industry friends helped me source the equipment and within days I discovered my sound engineer who just happened to show up with an LA based client. So, I recorded every day for July and August and got over 100 hours of audio that then became the finished 12 chapter 9 hour program."

Photocritic International » IP Infringement Alert #1

Just cause it is on them interwebs don't mean it is free. A.D. Coleman has a very clear essay on the subject. Read this thoughtful essay.

Photocritic International » IP Infringement Alert #1:

"Since the “fair use” exception to the copyright law does not permit unauthorized publication of an entire essay under any circumstances, I sent Mr. Rickard a query:"

Canon S90 | Wired.com Product Reviews

This looks like a deal changer on pocket cameras.

Canon S90 | Wired.com Product Reviews:

"The first, and most important is the cam's glass. It's got a 28-105mm equivalent lens, so there's nice wide angle at the short end, perfect for large group shots and landscapes.

But even better is the speed of the lens — it goes down to f2.

This is huge. Seriously. A small camera with a fast lens completely changes the game, because it lets you avoid the thing that's been ruining the pictures you're taking inside: the flash. Because the S90 can grab so much light, we were able to shoot at reasonable shutter speeds inside without the flash, taking photos of kids that stopped their incessant action without the washed-out, frozen-in-time look that a flash always seems to impart."

A Hetherington shoots Creed

A good read about editorial shooting with Andrew Hetherington and his encounter with the band Creed. Read about the shoot, see the layout in Details Magazine and some out-takes. Well done article by a busy editorial shooter. Thanks for the backend view, Andrew.

Creed is good:

"Scott was cool with me but pretty intense. When the band were done with their pre gig doings I knocked on his dressing room door and asked him if I could shoot some solo stuff of him in the room. “Sure” he said.”Come back in 10 minutes.” Not knowing what I was going to get I returned to find him lounging sans top and once I saw the cross hanging from the back of his laptop I knew this could be it, my lucky moment. He played along for a few frames as I made a poor attempt at chit chat before we both silently acknowledged that my moment was up and it was time for me to leave. I believe that had I done the staged band shot this chance may not have been gifted."

Flickr! It’s made of people! « Flickr Blog

I don't get it. But I probably will at some point.

Flickr! It’s made of people! « Flickr Blog:

"We’ve launched People in Photos, a new feature that will help put a face to the Flickrverse and enable you to highlight members that you’ve photographed in a whole new way. People in Photos lets you add a member to a photo, find photos of people you know, and manage which photos you’re in. Huzzah!"

Spiral Scratch: 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™

I think she's on to something here. You need to read this before you tweet again!

Spiral Scratch: 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™:

"I could charge as much as $1249 for this information but, for a limited amount of time, I'm giving these strategies & secrets away, that's 100% FREE! The 'catch' is you can only read each blog entry up to 26 times before you'll be prevented from reading it. So, take lots of notes before your access to this blog expires.

Today and each of the next nine Tuesdays, I'm going to release one of the Twitter Strategies & Secrets that the Twitter Elite don't want you to know, how they got to be in the ranks of the Top 1000 Twitter Users and how you can be, too.

'Liz,' you ask, 'why don't you tell me them all 10 secrets & strategies right now?' Well, that is simply is because I only have 6 secrets at the moment and people are more interested in lists of 10. The other 4 secrets will occur to me by mid-November. But I promise you, as an acknowledged expert in Twitterology™, along with some truly profound advice, I will provide you with examples to scientifically back up my points."

No... really. ;-)

Advice « PhotoDino

Advice « PhotoDino:

"- Learn that people photography is about people, not about photography. Great portraits are a side effect of a strong human connection.

- Never forget why you started taking pictures in the first place. Excellent technique is a great tool, but a terrible end product. The best thing your technique can do is not call attention to itself. Never let your technique upstage your subject."

A Picture's Worth

Very insightful article on the paradigm of blending video into a still camera and then being a film shooter.

A Picture's Worth:

"But you and I aren't going to pick up a Mark IV or D3s and suddenly become proficient at screenwriting. We aren't going to become expert at non-linear editing. Forget mastery of the software, all of these things require skill and experience. And there is no level of technology that will replace the hours that are required to do something well -- whether it's playing basketball, designing a building, or making a movie.

Do I want a D-SLR with video? Yes. But I don't, for a second believe, that it is going to turn me into the next Polanski Spielberg without dedicating 10,000 hours (wink at Gladwell) to become an expert."

Yep.

A Picture's Worth

Well written and well stated.

A Picture's Worth:

"The average stock photo simply isn't worth what it once was.

I consider myself to be a pretty decent photographer, but when I search for an image on iStockPhoto, I'm blown away. There are some very good photographers with Photoshop skills that make up for any lack of talent or equipment. And the proof of the paradigm shift to me? I've purchased iStock images when I've determined that I can't shoot something better myself. Why spend 2 hours setting up a shot to come up with something inferior, when I can buy something for a few bucks. Should I be hung? Next time your spouse asks you to help throw together a marketing brochure for his/her company, what are you going to do to get that nice photo of a clock?

So as I was saying, stock photography sucks. It's not that you can't make money. It's just much harder than it used to be. Generalists won't survive. We have enough yellow rubber ducks against seamless. You have to specialize and understand who's buying to really succeed. Guys like Masa Ushioda will be fine. But maintaining a staff with salary and benefits to produce seasonal content while facing downward pricing pressure from another one of your properties....forget it."

HeatherMortonArt buyer on Pesky Client Challenges

Great advice. Especially the part about keeping it congenial. Gaining allies is far more important than making enemies. The person you are talking to is not your problem. Giving them Grief is NOT going to make the problem go away, it will only make them resentful.

— HeatherMortonArt buyer:

"Then, you should just start calling them every week or two saying: “It’s been 6 weeks (or whatever), just checking to see if I can pick up my cheque this week”. Become an annoying but congenial thorn in their side until you are paid. If it goes beyond 60 days, you may want to really inquire again about their motives, and start again pointing out that this whole situation (using your image beyond the license) wasn’t above-board.

Guaranteed, the person you are talking too isn’t the one holding up your cheque so there is no point being an ass to them but rather, explain the situation as if they are, of course, on your side."

Getty founder speaks to reporter incapable of fact-checking.

Well... that's the money qoute and it is quite striking for it's simple wrongness. $200 for advertising stock? No paradigm or context. No modifiers... just this simpleton statement. Great reporting, nit-wit reporter... soooo wrong on sooooo many levels.

Getty founder knows how to develop ideas - Times Online:
"With declining demand for photos used in advertising, which start at $200 per photo, the largest part of the Getty business is tumbling."

Oh. Good. Lord.

PhotoshopDisasters: Ralph Lauren: The Hits Keep On Coming

They trust me, so they refer me. | New Media Photographer | Digital and Social Media for photographers

They trust me, so they refer me. | New Media Photographer | Digital and Social Media for photographers:

"Once people have heard your name enough times (usually between 5-9 times) they begin to mentally follow you and make note of what you do. Think about the people you have followed through the years. Recall how many national or local community photographers you have watched grow, succeed or fail. Over time, you develop an opinion about them. Some have bad reputations, are considered selfish, while others are known for being friendly and approachable."

45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts « Noupe

Nice collection! I love these kinds of rich posts.

45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts « Noupe:

"In his famous 1908 essay, ‘Ornament and Crime,’ modern architect Adolf Loos wrote: “The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects.” This pronouncement banished many of the frilly, decorative fonts of centuries past from the realm of High Design. Fast forward to the present day: Web 3.0 is awash in enough sleek sans serif and classic roman typefaces to make designers long for the typographic indulgences of yesteryear."

Jeanne Newhall: Pianist, composer, performer, poet. Smooth jazz, pop, vocal music and classical piano. Glide, Wild Blue, Bedouin's Paradise, E-Sensual, Paris Nights

Also, the Jukebox lets you listen to several songs all the way through....almost like a "Website CD", created just for you.  You can now peruse the site until your hearts content and the musique will never end.

via jeannenewhall.com

Jeanne has a cool "jukebox" on her site where you can listen to some of her songs. I love her new CD, and her last album, "Wild Blue" has some simply wonderful songs. I am a fan and a friend... and her web guy... heh. Go listen and I think you may want to pick up the album at iTunes or Amazon.

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Man on Beach in Mexico: He was helping a guy renting JetSkis and was a pretty colorful fellow. He was quite proud to have his picture taken.

From a walk on the beach at the Mexico Workshop a few weeks ago.

I like to do this kind of simple portrait... unassuming and without too much self in the image.

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Christina vote allows boy back in school | Delawareonline.com | The News Journal

Then you haven't been paying attention.

Christina vote allows boy back in school | Delawareonline.com | The News Journal: "

“There’s no flexibility. It’s the most insane thing I’ve seen in the school district in a long time.”"

But not to worry. I am sure these folks will handle health care just fine. What could go wrong?

Free Slideshow, Gallery And Lightboxes Scripts « Noupe

Free Slideshow, Gallery And Lightboxes Scripts « Noupe:

"For Web design projects, you may find yourself sometimes scrounging around for a simple yet useful image gallery and slideshow. But imagine having a huge collection of AJAX, JavaScript, Lightbox, CSS and Flash-based image galleries at your fingertips. Hopefully, this post will do the trick and provide all the resources you might need"

Should a Professional Photographer Give Away Their Copyright?

Of course not. But there are some differentials between the professional and the amateur and this is unfortunately one that gets blurred. A lot.

It isn't just that a Professional shouldn't give away copyright... NO Artist should give it away.

Read the whole thing.

Allure Multimedia Professional Photography » Should a Professional Photographer Give Away Their Copyright?:

"Please DO NOT insult the creative professional by asking them to discount their artistry or request that they turn over ownership to their work. If you cannot afford a professional, simply look elsewhere to someone that is more inline with you or your organizations budgetary constraints. Hiring a part-time photographer, “Weekend Warrior”, instead of a professional may be completely adequate if quality is less of an issue then quantity and or price. There is a place for everyone in the industry and it remains the client’s responsibility to educate themselves as to whom they need to hire and just WHY they need to hire them."

Tru Shots Photography | Photoblog: discussions

An interesting blog on photography.

Tru Shots Photography | Photoblog: discussions:

"Photography seems to be taking a beating by those who claim to love it most--photographers. Certainly intellectual discourse regarding any art form or topic is something that should be welcomed, embraced and participated in. While doing this, it is important to disagree without being disagreeable. But when we are trying to characterize who is a photographer and who is not and what is a 'real' photograph or not it seems to cause unnecessary contention among photographers and is also not beneficial to those interested in starting within the field. I have received emails from many discouraged beginners. This saddens me. We definitely want to guide them in the right way and not have them make poor assumptions (regarding equipment, software, technique etc.) that will ultimately have them disappointed in their own work instead of learning and growing. However, it is more beneficial to critique someone's actual photograph than question whether or not it is a 'real' photograph. Art need not mirror reality; art is its own reality. I hope that intellectual discourse continues but that photographers can reserve some of their arbitrary rules for their work, lose some of the anger and bitterness towards photographers with styles that differ from theirs and allow more freedom in this form of expression instead of confinement. Let's create."

If I Gave a Commencement Speech for Graduating Photographers by Scott Bourne

Pretty good info:

Marketing Essentials International » Guest Post: If I Gave a Commencement Speech for Graduating Photographers by Scott Bourne:

"Catching up on my reading this morning, it just hit home. In one short blog, Scott summed up at least a dozen points I’ve tried to make over the past few months. The point I’m having the most fun with is simply that we’re all still going to school so a commencement speech is pretty much on target! Technology, the economy, new concepts and new friends are constantly pushing us to keep learning, to be patient and to continue to experiment and push the envelope."

Paulo Roversi Talks about Photography...

... and keeping that creative edge. I love it when he talks about the music he sees and the casual observations of women in real life that transfers to his fashion. I try to do that in every shot... One of the best shooters around... take a few and watch:

Another iPhone shot of Intee in Detroit. The students were blending flash and ambient. Me... natural light.

Cause there ain't no flash sync on an iPhone...

Anyway, I am really having fun with this thing. I see the allure of it... images are spontaneous, triggered by emotion and instantly captured.

Guess I gotta get the new one now so I can have even more whistles and bells and focus points... heh.

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A Gateway to... to what? We couldn't figure it out so we photographed it. Nothing else would do... ya know.

"And there it was. Right there in front of him. The way. The gateway to every thing he ever wanted. After 30 years of searching. He sat on the ground and stared. After a few minutes he left for Mexico."

We saw this thing out in the desert and got up really early next morning to get out to it. We shot a bunch of stuff there and then came back to the Hacienda for breakfast. We had to find a way into the sandy desert that wouldn't gobble up the SUV... but, heck, that's just logistics.

Yeah, we roll like that to get photographs.

Heh.

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The Visual Science Lab: Up In Smoke. Burn the past.

A very interesting and thoughtful post by Kirk Tuck in Austin. I profiled him on LE here.

The Visual Science Lab: Up In Smoke. Burn the past.:

"Pretty much the stuff we had last year would work just fine this year. It might even represent overkill.

Someone will mention fashion photography or product photography and the need for higher quality repro and you'll have me dead to rights there. But how many of us really do that versus how many of us do corporate headshots, products for the web, and lifestyle for web and lower quality print publications?

The gear anchors us emotionally to a past that is NEVER coming back. Even when the economy recovers we'll still face the reality that our media have shifted. That production has changed. Everything has progressed into a direction that is bearing less and less resemblance to the past."

Fraudulent Art in the White House? · Snapped Shot

What a total crock of total shit this is. It is ABSOLUTELY a rip-off... the chances of those shapes being so close by chance is a gazillion or two to one. What the hell is going on in the friggin' art world?

Fraudulent Art in the White House? · Snapped Shot:

"An enterprising art-enthusiast FReeper has discovered a fraudulent painting amongst Barack Obama's new White House collection. While Beelzebubba didn't post both images together, I managed to throw together the following animation, which definitely shows that the layout of the two pieces is identical."

Seth's Blog: Crowded at the top

Yes it is crowded at the top... but the top is where you want to be. Read this short post by Seth Godin for some thoughts.

Seth's Blog: Crowded at the top:

"The real growth and development and the foundations for the next era are laid during the chaotic times, the times that come after the leaders have stumbled. Harry Chapin didn't trip up the Beatles, but the breakup of the Beatles allowed Harry Chapin his chance. The next golden age of journalism, of communications, of fashion, of car design--those are being established now, in a moment when it's not so crowded at the top."

The horseman approached with his riderless steeds. Was one of them for me... to ride in Mexico for an eternity?

Alas, it was not meant to be and I find myself back in the good ol' USA.

This shot happened really fast. By the time I had raced to the point where his shadow was my foreground I only got off 4 shots - blind as I was holding the camera on the ground and shooting up.

Well - off to do more work on the LE site.

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Photosketch automagically creates Photoshop montages from your sketches

Ummmm... OK, it grabs peoples pics off the net and then re-purposes them into a montage? Do I have that right?

Photosketch automagically creates Photoshop montages from your sketches:

"You might expect something as advanced as PhotoSketch to come from a huge company like Google, but it was actually developed by a group of 5 computer science students in China. Their bandwidth isn't enough to stand up to all the hype, though, so PhotoSketch is down right now. The very impressive demo video shows a bit of how it works, though.

PhotoSketch uses a combination of your text labels and the rough shape of what you drew to find appropriate elements for your image. The results, at least the ones in the video, are incredible. The video also reveals that PhotoSketch isn't perfect - you don't want a baseball player for your Frisbee throwing scene, for example - but it generates several decent options for you to choose from, so one of them should be what you're looking for."

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.

Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies - Yahoo! News

He will be missed, but he will be remembered even more. One of our true legends of photography passes on.

Thanks Irving, I learned so much from your work.

Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies - Yahoo! News:

"NEW YORK – Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.

The death was announced by his photo assistant, Roger Krueger.

'He never stopped working,' said Peter MacGill, a longtime friend whose Pace-MacGill Galleries in Manhattan represented Penn's work. 'He would go back to similar subjects and never see them the same way twice.'"

She was playing cards in the shade of her porch in Choya Bay. We asked to photograph her. She said yes... and went on playing cards.

A natural light shot from Mexico.

Don Giannatti: Designer / Photographer / Writer

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Email Promos: A Good Thing?

Over at Heather Morton's site this post on Email marketing really strikes home. I get a lot of requests from clients to set up some sort of email promo. "Let's get some names and send 'em stuff... that'll be the ticket!"

Mmmm... Not so much.

Ask an Art Buyer: Email Promos — HeatherMortonArt buyer:

"While emailers sounded like a good idea several years ago, they are now little better then spam. Most of the work I get is not appropriate to any need I might possibly have, and lots of it just isn’t good at all. Plus, if the image isn’t displaying in my email window and fast, I’m on to the next one. On the other hand, when I receive a printed promo, at the very least, I look at the image(s). I also notice your attention to detail in your paper and design choice. Most often, email promos feel templated and generic, hence the agency opt-outs."

Do make sure you read the whole thing at HMAB.

If your email is ugly, and your message is "I made this" it may not be enough that it was delivered by Email. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. At least not without a lot of thought and preparation. Morton delivers some excellent examples and links to other narratives on the subject, but I will weigh in with a couple of things I try to impart on clients.

1. Don't buy lists. Create lists. Sending email blasts to people who are not interested in what you are selling doesn't make sense or clients. Make sure that recipient of your editorial portraits actually is interested in editorial portraits.

2. Simply attaching an image won't do. Attachments are a hassle. Figure out how to get that image inline... and make it load really fast. So keep the extraneous to a minimum.

3. Design it. Brand it. Make it visually something that they would want to pass on to a colleague. Or potential client. Make sure that it has the visual savvy to break through the other 30 they received that morning.

There are more, and I am working on an LE post on email marketing for photographers. This list keeps it simple and gets to the point.

We had a lot of great responses from the Apricot Lane promotions we did because they were attractive, branded, polished and had real information for the end user. Granted that was retail, but it was still Email and it was definitely targeted.

ProPhotoResource.com - Increasing Strobe Power with Photoshop

My article on using Photoshop to increase the power of your strobes (sorta / kinda) is now up. This image by Frank Tuttle pretty well sums up how well it works.

ProPhotoResource.com - Increasing Strobe Power with Photoshop:

"Frank made sure that the light in no way overlapped the area that would beretained in the finished work, and made his shots. Every three or four shots I would move out of the frame and he would shoot a frame without the lightin it. The reason we did that with such frequency is that the clouds are moving behind her. If we had made a couple of dozen images without making our non-lightshot, the clouds would have changed too much to match. Keep it quick, and make sure you keep your wits about you... There are issues beyond the shoot thatare very important.

Shadows, clouds, vehicles in the background, light angle, camera angles...all must be diligently thought through as you shoot the photo. You cannot change the camera angle without making the non-light shot that would correspond. After you have processed the images, it is quite simple to select the non-light area and slide it over the lighted shot. If you hold the shift key down, the image should slide right into place."

Essentials to Lighting | Tuttle Images

Thanks Frank. Nice image of a strange guy.

Essentials to Lighting | Tuttle Images:

"Pictured is Don – this is my second workshop with him and I’ve come out the other end a better photographer in so many more aspects of my ability to look at light, work on post-processing, and talking about the business of being a commercial portrait and editorial photographer. The others in the workshop were also invaluable – Bill from MD (Flickr Hopeland Studios) (here also working on an article for a magazine about Don) and Megan from AZ (both a phenomenal photographer and photoshop expert and our stand-in model – thank you!). Our workshop took place in Rocky Point, Mexico – an oasis in the middle of a desert."

Well, my crazy mug makes it to the front page of Flickr Explore. Very cool, 'Just Fab" - I am kinda liking this pic of me (rare).

My bud and great photographer Just Fab had this image she took of me go to the front page of Explore. That is very cool. We did this shoot last evening in Puerto Penasco, Mexico. The tide was going out and the sun was falling fast. Just Fab had the guys move her AB Beauty Dish down to the shore to make this image. I wanted something that would play up my more - uh - serious nature... heh - and she made it happen.

Thanks to Just Fab, I have been introduced to about a million or so folks... I guess that isn't too bad when the photo is so good.

Congrats to Megan for this honor.

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Bird in sunset, Puerto Penasco,Mexico

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Sunset in Mexico

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The dawn was absolutely beautiful here in Mexico. We headed out for some fun in the desert

I titled this piece:

In the Blinding Desert Sunrise, the Full Knowledge of her Future Became Crystal Clear. It was a Moment. A Quiet, Reflective Moment... with a Panic Chaser.

I thought of 'Girl in White Dress" and "Study #47" but those seemed to be already taken.

Thank you for watching.

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Heading off to Mexico with some talented photographers and our own Chef for the weekend! See you on the tweets...

We are on the move. I really am looking forward to this shoot. Mexico, talented shooters. Who knows... maybe we get a book out of it.

That could be fun

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Fame Kills tour cancelled abruptly

Duh... ya think!

Fame Kills tour cancelled abruptly:

"There was no official reason given, but the backlash that West received from the VMA’s after interrupting Taylor Swift’s speech, and his upcoming criminal court date, could possibly be reasons."

Blog Design Showcase | Traffikd

Blog Design Showcase | Traffikd:

"Here we will take a look at 30 blogs that make a big impact with their design. These blogs have been featured at my gallery site Blog Design Heroes, which you can visit if you are looking for more examples of great blog design."

A Conversation with Christopher Anderson - Conscientious

There were two reasons for doing this. First of all, I wanted to test an idea I have been obsessed with: ripping cinema from the screen and stuffing it onto the printed page. This book has a few influences and references that are quite obvious. But I hoped to take those references in a new direction by making a film in book form (perhaps this has already been done in a photo book, but I am unaware of it if it does exist). So, I chose to shoot in black and white as to not interrupt the cinematic experience with color, I break the confines of the page format by having some pictures begin on one page and continue on the next, and I chose not to have any type-set text so that there would always be forward movement to the next frame. The text that appears has been stenciled and then photographed so that it feels more like credits in a movie and the film reel remains unbroken.

via jmcolberg.com

This is a serious interview for serious photographers. Much to discuss there.

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