It isn’t perfect, but it got me into the Smithsonian.
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March 6, 2010
The Hidden Ball Trick
I often try to “shoot through” a play — keeping the shutter depressed in a burst even after a basket is made or a foul committed — because there are reactions and even consequences such as hair pulling, stomping and rabbit punches (not all sugar and spice, this sport of girls’ basketball). This is my photographic equivalent of following through.
January 26, 2010
Newspaper Essentials for the iTab
I’ve tried out many of the newspaper and magazine readers for the iPhone and have to say The New York Times comes closest to getting it right. It is fast, and intuitive to navigate (via headlines and categories), updates as news breaks and includes images.
January 9, 2010
Gone, but Hardly Muted
I went to as many games as a guy with a Seattle Times paper route could afford, but I knew them all because of Bob. Tommy Kron and Tom Meschery. Dick “the Duck” Synder and “Downtown” Freddy Brown. Spencer Haywood and Slick Watts. They all came to life via a voice that cannot be described as mellifluous as much as it was unwavering.
December 9, 2009
Print’s Comeback, Dressed in a Swim Suit
It’s no great revelation that the last decade’s great technological advancements have conferred upon vast numbers of us a bad case of Internet ADD. I guess we should not have been surprised that, given tremendous and ever growing numbers of choices, that we human beings are choosing to sample them all — and often not anything very thoroughly. If content were morsels, then we’re all fat ladies on the couch with boxes of half-eaten chocolates arrayed before us.
October 27, 2009
Multimedia Jazz and Thomas Marriott
This is my third post about Marriott, and each has discussed a shooting (still and video) environment with its own unique challenges.
October 13, 2009
The Media’s Blurred Line Between Leading and Cheerleading
Sometimes coziness supplies perspective not otherwise obtained, but there has to be a line and sharing a bed seems to be a pretty clear one.
September 21, 2009
The Real McCoy
I got an opportunity to do a short photo shoot of jazz legend McCoy Tyner’s visit to KPLU, the NPR affiliate in Seattle. First of all, I was really thrilled because he still is a vibrant performer, though he is one of the last from the truly golden era of jazz. He is closely associated [...]
July 22, 2009
The Lower Ninth Ward
NEW ORLEANS — We think a lot of time has passed — four years — and therefore much has changed since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood. Shockingly not as much has changed as you might expect.
I’m down here for a basketball tournament, but cannot help but be captivated by the continuing reminder [...]
June 10, 2009
Cover Girl
I believe I do a decent job at action and environmental portraits and want to get better at doing more-formal sitdown shots. That requires mastering the lighting and other variables that help bring out the subject’s personality. This is going to be a tale of how I bumbled into what I feel is a pretty good shot.
