FISH IN THE FILTER
The massive cumulonimbus clouds ripe with rain were well over a month away from rolling atop the blue hills of the Western Ghat mountain range in Tamil Nadu and enveloping the region in the mist of monsoon. My pet project for the dry season at the photographic college where I was teaching [...]
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Last fall Software-Cinema approached me about putting together an instructional DVD on Photoshop CS4. As I write this, the DVD is going to press and should be released within the month.
I am making my annual pilgrimage to Ketchum, Idaho at the end of February and will be offering a photography workshop titled “Photoshop CS4 [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Even though I have never visited Jaipur before, it is the India I remember… the wild merry go round of life. Full of friendly touts, and mad streets, blaring horns and sensory overload. The India that makes one realize that India is not for everyone. I have many more thoughts to verbalize from the day, but my eyes are [...]
Four years ago, the smog in Mumbai was so bad that walking around burned my eyes and wiping my face with a white handkerchief harvested a black crop of ash and dust after a couple of passes across my brow. According to my former student, now professional advertising photographer Amogh Thakur, two years ago the [...]
Pushing through jetlag, waking up with the sun. Mumbai is still mostly asleep. India seems tamer, kinder, and gentler than I remember. Children run through the pigeons at the gateway of India as the sun rises. The city slowly comes to life around me…
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Photography warning – all photos taken with my cell phone.
India bound. The moving and waiting game begins.
Moving
Waiting
Thursday, October 30, 2008
This morning, I got to visit with some old friends. The friends were images I had created in high school and are some of the first “good” pictures I made in my life. Printing them for an old friend this morning reminded me of why I love photography — for the simple pure thought [...]
Nothing. I have nothing. I have no camera, yet i have access to every camera i could ever need. Vision. I have nothing, but have access to a landscape and a world that excites me every time i see it. Empty. My vision feels empty until out on the rocks something turns my head. How [...]
There is rain on the window of this giant jet plane as we push back and roar into the sky. My eyes close in sleep before the plane reaches cruising altitude.
The first and second jobs I had out of Brooks Institute of Photography were directly due to Paul Liebhardt. While there were many instances during my first job in India that I couldn’t decide whether he was playing an elaborate joke with me as the unwitting victim, Paul set me on a trajectory that I have been following to this day.
