I’m getting the hang of this

I love it when friends come into town…. I get to abuse them.  Brian stopped down from the north side to try out Orland’s finest cuisine.  I love to get together and chat business and family.  This time it was more about family, we have kids about the same age that getting back to school.

Brian runs a photography business that is very different from mine.   His company, Picture Day, creates school portraits that are heads and should better than you than your typical school photos.  Our business’ are at opposite ends of the volume meter.  Where my sessions are counted in the hundreds he photographs over 15,000 kids a year.  Its aways good to hear a different perspective on the industry.

Im starting to get a good look going with the paper negative and my Deardorff.  Its been a nice summer, but too many distractions.  Im starting to look for create portraits with this process as an art project.  Im on the hunt for worthy cause or group that’s open to something different.



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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. – Aaron Siskind, 1955

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