sunny with occasional leaps and bounds
Surprisingly, a lot of people really like the grungy, color-shifted look used in the above photograph. Maybe the appeal is in what it implies: that we live in a world where "there is nothing new under the sun" and yet, somehow, everything old is new again. And I'm more than a bit amused by the fact that I'm using a computer and software (Photoshop CS2 on an iMac) to make a photograph look "dirty" even though I've taken it with a digital camera that automatically cleans its sensor to ensure a dust free image.
katelyn watering the plants
She's so used to being photographed that it doesn't take long (usually!) for her to pretty much forget I'm there. It's then that I get blessed with images like this. I understand the cultural role of posed photographs but I could never pose her in any way that would express more of who she is than what I capture in photographs of her being herself in her world. It always makes me a bit sad when clients don't feel comfortable stepping out of the "posed portrait" box.
tony o'brien at the marketplace
This is Tony O'Brien getting into it with his soprano sax. I took this last Thursday evening at the free concert event at The Marketplace in Bakersfield, CA.