I have a thing where I enjoy ‘eating’ color. I don’t know exactly how to describe this feeling. It’s like you see rich colors, or some unique interplay of color and light (for me I enjoy a soft diffused light on a bold color most), and it ‘fills’ you up. It excites you. What it surrounds my not really be that exciting, but the light…
I mentioned it in a previous post, but before I left Japan, I had a gig where I shot some website photos for a small town in Japan that makes fabrics for kimono and other accessories and clothes in the traditional futagoori method. I got this job from a friend who was in charge of marketing their products, and overall creative direction for them. She…
I have recently, within the last two or so years, been lucky enough to purchase some of the things that I’ve really been wanting to for a long time. At the top of that list is a Contax 645, which along with my Hasselblad bodies has been my entry into the realm of hybrid medium format bodies. The idea of only shooting film kept me…
When my wife was in her third trimester. We did three semi-planned shoots. One was on a beach (I think I forgot to bring batteries, or a memory card, so I ended up shooting it on my M9). The other was in our living room with some Colorspike lights, and the last one was in a forest near our apartment. I’m mainly going to focus…
Sharing an entire roll with someone is still something that is a bit uncomfortable for me. I’m going to be starting a YT channel to share more soon, and I do want to show the “missed”, or flubbed shots along with the ones that I’m happy with. I love William Klein’s work, and I posted a short excerpt from one of his documentaries a while…
I’m not really that big on sharing work-related pictures, however I think that I’ll share some of the photos that I took for one of my last jobs in Japan before coming here to the UK. One of my Japanese friends is an agent for multiple artists, and she asked me to photograph an event (albeit with very little information from her beforehand). I didn’t…
I went to South Africa in 2018, and my (now) wife and I traveled around for a couple of weeks. I think I only took my M9, and the D16 for this trip, but I bought a really cheap film camera for about $5 and ran a couple of rolls through it (mostly family pictures, so nothing to share here). All of these throwaways are…
I love islands. I plan on retiring on an island some day. Being near the ocean is calming in a way that I did not properly understand or appreciate until I started working mainly in Tokyo again. So far, I’ve lived (as in longer than a year) on two islands in Japan, and have visited many of them. The island lifestyle is unique, and alluring….
I need a moment to shoot b/w again. Just a ‘touch up’, to get back to the basics. I’ll probably pull out the RD-1 for this. I used to feel like b/w photos was somehow cheating when I first started photography. I’m slightly intimidated by black and white photography, because I have no idea how to pair the style with filter use. Something that I…