
But the bruises, scrapes and limps will continue on. Sunday, August 1st was the last day of the big yearly meet in Rochester, NY when people from all over converge to hang out, see the sights and take a picture or two. I didn’t see a lot and I didn’t shoot a lot but I’ve got the bruises, scrapes, bandage and hobble to make it look like I did a lot. [...]
Continue reading Summer in the ROC 2010 is over…

Take a model I’ve never worked with before, a park I haven’t spent much time shooting models at, a hot & humid day with intermittent downpours and mix. The result is a very tiring but fun shoot and some interesting photos. [...]
Continue reading Shooting Zaftigg at Durand Eastman Park

So it seems I’ve fallen a bit behind here. Hopefully I can turn that around now and it won’t happen again for a while (from time to time it’s inevitable though!) to come. Here’s just a brief update… A number of things are going on right now. Outside of the more important matters of real life, I’m working on building a ring light. I’m cutting the fiber optics to length now and hope to have the actual ring head soon. [...]
Continue reading Updates: projects, photos and more

Waking up to a Saturday with weather most would consider miserable is sometimes exactly the sort of thing I need for a chance to go out and have some fun shooting. I left for the shore of Lake Ontario with grand ideas only to find that by the time I got there the weather went from perfect to a completely monotone sky without any texture. I took the opportunity to have some lunch before zipping off to Durand Eastman Park which seemed like the best place to mess around with some daytime long exposures and hopefully get some photos. [...]
Continue reading Cold, gray and windy ponds

This past Sunday, Alex and I returned to the incinerator to continue working on some things we started during our first shoot together (also at the incinerator, covered here). My friend Joe came along again to help out and do some shooting of his own. Unlike our last trip to the incinerator, the weather was considerably warmer and the ground was no longer covered in snow, making the hike down far less tiring. [...]
Continue reading Another shoot at the abandoned incinerator with Alex

Semi-spontaneous shoots are fun, but they can also sometimes present some problems. A week ago I met with Alicia and we went to the Eastman House to do some shooting, unfortunately we were blessed with unusual weather for the Rochester area. The harsh light of a cloudless day wasn’t exactly what I had hoped for and it wasn’t what I remembered seeing on the forecast a couple days before either! [...]
Continue reading Alicia at the Eastman House

A bit over a week ago I went to Black Creek Park with Olivia and her assistant (aka boyfriend) and we trudged though more mud than anticipated to do some shooting. It was a fairly spur of the moment shoot, we really didn’t have a location planned or specific shots in mind but we had some ideas. [...]
Continue reading I almost ruined my shoes at Black Creek Park
Way back in the beginning of March I shot pinups of CC since it has been a long-time interest of her to pose for some. Olivia, a mutual friend, did the makeup and hair for this adventure and I got to work with some better lighting equipment which made things a whole lot easier! [...]
Continue reading CC’s pinups

With February now over it’s a good time to make sure I get some of the stuff from Feb that I missed up. It turned out to be a busy month in many ways, not just with taking photos, so I’ve fallen a bit behind here. I shot with three new models and have been chased around by other models from shoots-gone-by asking to do more shoots. [...]
Continue reading Alex at the incinerator, Anatomy and CC… February was model shooting month it seems

Yesterday was the day many were waiting for. Those who had never been to the subway or who at least had never walked its length appeared in some pretty impressive numbers for this get together and we walked from the western entrance to the eastern end by Dinosaur BBQ. This mile long tunnel really isn’t that long and you can get through it pretty quickly, sadly for me it seems to feel like it’s shorter every time I go. [...]
Continue reading The biggest local Flickr get together ever was yesterday’s subway walk