random images

I have a new camera and a couple of new lenses and, like a new pair of shoes, they are taking a little while to break in. You sometimes forget that the new "tools" don't always automatically bring better results. It's like a television, you buy a new one and it's bigger and brighter and flatter with better sound and the remote is really cool but the crap you can watch on it is the same crap that you could watch on your old television, only it's clearer crap, brighter crap, crisper crap, with better sound. That being said, here's some crap from the last few weeks taken with a camera that's getting more and more comfortable in my hands every day.

The Argument



Self Portrait Number Eight (thank you Nikkor 50/1:1.4D)


Nostalgia (this is the same picture that I took some ten or twelve years ago, I have the original and I will scan it in the near future and attach it here)


Ed. There are very few photographs of Ed.


Honestly


And Then

One We Were Here

I have an infatuation with temporary artifacts, small cues as to what might have happened not long ago, fleeting moments that seem so insignificant as they happen but are more important than they let on at the time. It's the little things that are important and it's usually the little things that get skimmed over.

Dining

I should have stopped down on this one a bit, the depth of field is just a hair shy of getting the candle and the lace table cover over the front edge of the table. One stop is all it would have taken I'm sure. But still the image does most of what i wanted it to.

You rarely think about video and photography together but I found this video about a favourite photographer Todd Hido and then there was this video about John Chiara that is pretty inspiring. John is a new one to me and I look at his process and it boggles the senses that he goes through such a convuluted effort to come up with a single image in a day but the images are pretty emotional and chock full of narrative which is something I struggle with in a lot of my photographs. Even though I think I missed today's image technically I think I got the emotion and narrative I was looking for which is why it's here. I'll take it again one day soon and see if I can get the technical side down as well but for now this will do.