This is a story of connections. We went to this financial planner about 6 months ago for some advice. In the process I talked about starting my own business and the principal planner (the guy in the front) gave some off the cuff advice about how important it is to stay in contact with your real and potential clients. I took his advice and kept in contact with him and 6 months later got a call to do their updated corporate photos and website.
In the process of doing that I have now landed another contract with a husband of one of the other employees helping with his company’s website.
Here is the evidence we found early Christmas morning that Santa came to our house. The cookies were eaten, the milk dranken and one puzzle piece was tooken. Can you find the piece that is missing?
Our photo club was having a photo shoot in the auto repair garage that is attached to the photography studio where we meet. They had brought out all the lights and back drops into the garage to do a tutorial on studio lighting.
It was a bit too crowded to really hear what they were saying so I stole a few of the models and went to another part of the garage where I found a scaffold for them to get up on. I went up a ladder and got this shot, among others.
I had the camera on manual settings for a long exposure and then added the flash at the end to get the effect.
This is a series of black and white images that I worked on to create a very painterly, beautiful and moody feel to them. I wanted them to look hyper real yet very other worldly at the same time.
I brought my 88 year old father into the Vietnamese Nail Salon to get his toenails trimmed. He can’t do them anymore and they get REALLY long before he says anything about them.
While I was waiting I noticed this woman getting her nails done. I was particularly drawn to her wide set eyes and asked her if I could take her photograph. I took some photos of her fingers and nails sitting on the towel waiting to be filed.
Later when I was doing the collage of her face photos I connected the finger photos and kept seeing them as little wings. I envisioned her wanting to fly from the Vietnamese Nail Salon to New York or Dallas, to BE somewhere, to fly to the top, to be seen gliding and flying and rolling across the sky.
I later came across her at the local Target where she is a co-worker of my daughter. She didn’t remember me taking the photos at all.
Day two of my week-long series on American colors in celebration of the 4th of July.
I Found this American scene while photographing near the railroad tracks and Arkansas River in Tulsa back in 2006. I think it was part of a run down garage next to a run down house. But that really didn’t matter. What mattered was the undesigned, unanticipated beauty of the American colors in such an unlikely spot.
A continuation of the Color Composition series I started last week. The photos were all taken on a very bright and sunny morning at the farmer’s market as part of a photography group I was leading that day where we focused on color and composition as the defining factor in a photograph.
I just had to catch up with this woman and ask her to if I could take her photo. She was standing right next to this table and the red/red/red was just too luscious to resist!
Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, 6/14/08, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Second in the series on Color Composition. I loved finding the little baskets sitting in the sun next to the crumpled piece of paper that had the same color. the deep rich version of that same color in the umbrella pole and the shadow cutting between the other two made the composition worth capturing. The background had colors in the cool spectrum and that made all the difference in bringing out the warmth of the orange.
Sorry for being absent for a few days. We took a road trip to Texas for college orientation for our daughter.
The remainder of this week and next I am going to show a series of color compositions I did while at the local Farmer’s Market here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I led a small group from our photo club in experimenting with color and composition and here are a few of the images I came up with.
