We Shoot Horses, Don’t We?
Here is the situation. I am inside a paddock with a stallion, two grooms and the farm manager. This is not something I recommend you try. Stallions are fully operational horses if you get my drift. Plus, it is still breeding season so all the stallions are flooded with testosterone. This makes them, like any male in a similar condition, unpredictable and just a wee bit wild
Horses
This last week I have been down in the Lexington, Kentucky area photographing at Pin Oak Stud, the thoroughbred horse farm that I photograph for their advertisement needs every few years. This is the first posting of several I will share telling what it is like to photograph on assignment, under pressure to produce
Faces of Bhutan
What struck me most strongly about Bhutan was the generosity and friendliness for the people. We spent most of our time in country exploring the backroads away from the main tourist areas.So every day, while the other tourist busses were heading off to yet another monastery or temple our bus would head to the countryside and look for villages, markets, farms, anything off the beaten track
Just a Quickie
Here is just a quickie teaser from my trip last week to Maine for the lobster book project.
Just a touch of Light
I know I have said and written about this many, many times in the past but it is worth repeating. Not because you all don’t understand it but because just like me we often get distracted and conveniently forget about it. What am I talking about? Light, Baby! It’s all about light
Back from Bhutan!
Hello Everyone! Well, it has been a long time since our last chat but now I am back and ready to go. Where was I for the last 3 weeks? I was on a PAW photography tour to Bhutan and it was great! We toured all across this beautiful, mountainous country, spending most of our time out in the country off the typical tourist route. We never knew exactly what we were going to see or even do each day but we found amazing things everyday and our cameras were smokin! I will post a number of images and stories here drawn from Bhutan so look forward in the coming days for lots of new posts. For now, I will include two of my favorite images: Prayer flag forest & Window portrait In Bhutan as across all of the Himalayan region, prayer flags are placed in windy places such as on bridges, poles or mountain passes so that the wind may blow the inscribed prayers and blessings to all parts. This 11,000 ft. pass was thick with flags creating a magical, in motion forest of vibrating color. T There is no better light for portraits than window light. This image reminds me of the scene in the movie, The Sound of Music, where the Mother Superior is singing “Climb Every Mountain.” Okay, a bit of an obscure reference but I am sticking with it. It was a beautiful situation and the kind woman was a wonderful, dear soul. Stay tuned for more!!
More Top 10 Lists!!!
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The Top 10 Photo Myth
Winter? What Winter?
So I have officially given up on winter this winter. There might be winter this spring or winter this fall but last winter was a lost winter with no winter to speak of so I have turned toward spring and but the winter of no winter away. This hasn’t been a particularly difficult thing for me to do. This may be in part because as I write this I am in Florida where everyone is whining about how cold the 65 degree temperatures are or it might be because in 9 days I will be in Bhutan and lobsters and the Maine coast will be replaced in my small but perfectly formed brain by exotic landscapes, bright colors and photogenic monks. Or it might be because I just don’t want to think about the disappointment of the last few months. Did someone say winter? So I leave you for the time being with a picture from the Maine coast that can’t be taken anymore. It’s not that it is difficult to take, the problem is that it is difficult (impossible) to find. I took this photo almost 20 years ago when there were a few lobstermen still using wooden traps. Today there are none. The only wooden traps you see now are those used for decoration or those dumped into the ditch out back to rot and fade away. Enjoy!