A week-and-a-half ago, I was cruising through another day of riveting ed tech work at the office, when I happened to glance over at my Tweetdeck window and saw this tweet by 500px. "WHAAAaaat?!" I said out loud. Eric Paré was, and is, one of my favorite photographers.
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[18] I used to play chess online a lot. Like, a lot a lot. So much so, that I labeled myself as "having a problem" with it, intervened with myself, and quit cold turkey. I was pretty good at the opening and end games, but I always struggled with the middle game. And this is where I find myself with my photography, drifting through the elusive yet all-important middle game.
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[15] We've all been there. It's summer time, hotter that you-know-what outside, a week into your summer break, and dad "asks" you to help with a small project around the house. The next thing you know, you're hammering nails into 2x4's and fetching tools for hours on end, instead of riding your bike off sweet jumps with your friends.
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[06] I love light painting. I'm not afraid to say it. Like HDR photography, however, it can be amazing, or complete garbage. In the interest of creating the former rather than the later, I did some research and geared up for an outing of my own, armed with inspiration from guys like tcb, LAPP-PRO, JanLeonardo, and Aurora Crowley. What followed was...
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[04] When I first captured the image that would become Versus, I thought it was a failure. The smoke wasn't flowing right, and the lighting was all wrong. I should have deleted it. But I didn't. Eighteen months later, after a random idea occurred to me as I was laying awake in bed, I opened it with Photoshop and started...
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