"his sneezes..."

"It always fascinates me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing."

from the film 2 days in paris - a beautiful, poignant, and gorgeous summation of a seminal human moment.

for me, the combination of cinematography, acting and voiceover is the gorgeous visual translation of what it feels like to be searching for the right word, and, instead of it evading you, it comes to your mind with a subtle graceful force as if it was the only word you ever needed.

i'm a blurb staff pick!

check me out! blurb selected my book as one of their staff picks! very exciting. i've been getting a lot of traffic because of this so pick up your copy before they run out!

(i'm in the 2nd row, 2nd from the left)

oops!

the post i just wrote was one scanned page short, please check it out again in its entirety :)

newsweek!

the big news i've been hinting at is that last week i shot a feature story for newsweek and it's on newsstands today!

the layout is beautiful (4 pages, 4 photos!) and they used my photos well. this was a wonderful assignment because i got to photograph someone i found truly lovely and interesting (poet laureate kay ryan), i was given a ton of creative freedom with the style of photos and i got to shoot polaroid 600.

you should absolutely go see the issue in person since the online story is lacking any photo accompaniment (it has michael jackson on the cover and is titled "the meaning of michael"). let me know what you think of the story, i'm delighted with how it came out!

(pages in published order, my byline on title page)

twitter update

a great quote from this ASMP blog post about why we twitter: "As a professional, Tweeting isn’t about going to a movie or where you are having dinner, it is about letting people know that you and your business is alive and vital."

big news on monday

stay tuned to my blog this coming monday for some big news :)

great shoot today

my shoot today went very well! it's now past midnight and i'm done with the first round of edits. it's time to give my eyeballs a much needed break from checking focus all day.

the work equivalent of beauty sleep...

...is prep sleep. it's 12:33am and everything is all ready to go for tomorrow. here's some of what i'm bringing:

- 2 doz blue eggs
- 1 doz brown eggs
- taxidermied crow
- all my gear
- homemade brownies for crew/subject
- paperwork
- prepped fedex box for the polaroids to go to my scanner in la
- releases
- memorized shot list
- 20 packs polaroid 600
- polaroid sleeves

i got word today that the spread should run in the next month or so... keep your eyeballs to my posts; i'll put it up here in all it's glory as soon as it's out!

prop hunting

this week has been taken up with the search for two interesting props:
- taxidermied (or realistic) crow/raven
- a few doz. blue eggs (real, not fake)
today, after much calling, i think i nailed it and located both.

things are picking up

sorry i've been somewhat miba (missing in blog action) lately - i have been delightfully busy with lots of work. today i booked 2 new jobs - wahoo! details to come, stay tuned.