May 2011 Calendar Wallpaper: World War II Memorial
The May 2011 calendar wallpaper is here! This month’s calendar wallpaper features the World War II Memorial, which is one of my favorite Washington, DC memorials, not only for my personal fine art photography work, but also for engagement photography sessions. Download the calendar wallpaper here, in a resolution appropriate to your computer monitor. And view [...]
Peace Be With You from Djibo, Burkina Faso
Here is another photo from Tabaski. Yuma and Aissama (Tabaski’s meat thief), sit by the barbecue, their faces illuminated by the fire. It reminds me of Tracy Chapman’s song, “Heaven’s Here on Earth,” in her “New Beginnings” album. You can look to the stars in search of the answers Look for God and life on [...]
Tabaski’s Meat Thief
The religious holiday of Tabaski is one of the biggest across West Africa, where much of the population is Muslim. It takes place 70 days after the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. When I lived in Niger as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Tabaski was always my favorite holiday of the year, because of both [...]
Fatimata: Fulani Girl in Djibo, Burkina Faso
Sorry I’ve been absent from my blog!!! We spent the last three weeks in the sleepy town of Djibo in northern Burkina Faso, where I quickly discovered the internet to be TORTUROUSLY slow. There, a 20 kbps download speed is super fast, and that’s…um…slower than dial up! Nevertheless, we’ve been having an AWESOME time, and [...]
September 2010 Wallpaper: Light & Motion Abstract
A few weeks ago, I taught a Light & Motion photography workshop at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I headed back to the fair a week later to work on my own focus blur-zoom blur technique. My abstracts were some of my newsletter readers’ favorites, so I’ve decided to make one available [...]
Light and Motion Abstracts
During my photography workshop last week on Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair last week, I wanted to focus on my students, so I didn’t do any of my own shooting. However, I did get the chance to catch two hours of the fair on the last day this past weekend, before the [...]
How-To: Shooting the Blues Club on Bourbon Street
Last week, I posted a photo of Troy Turner, Ike & Tina Turner’s nephew, singing away the blues at the Blues Club on New Orleans’s famed Bourbon Street. One of my students saw the post and asked me how I made the shot, so I thought I’d tell you here on my blog. So here goes! [...]
Fireworks & Fountains at Longwood Gardens
My flight leaves from New Orleans back to DC in just a few hours. I’ll go away with a lot of satisfaction and the distinct belief that New Orleans is an incredible, wonderful city. I’m also utterly exhausted, though, from all the walking (in the heat too!), so at the same time, I’m glad to [...]
DC Memorials at Night: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and World War II Memorials
I’ve been so busy with portraits and weddings this summer, then I’ve only just gotten around to processing the photos I shot at my DC Memorials at Nightphotography workshop three weeks ago. We started out at the Lincoln Memorial, then headed to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial, and ended at the World War II Memorial. [...]
Student Work: DC Memorials at Night
A few Fridays ago, I ran an intermediate/advanced workshop on “Photographing the DC Memorials from Evening to Night.” Here is some student work from John and Barry, two of my four students. Didn’t they do a great job, doing a teacher proud???!!! (Students: You’ve all received an invitation to view a private lightbox with these [...]
WORKSHOP: Photographing the DC Memorials from Evening to Night
I’m super excited about a new 1/2-day photography workshop that I’m putting together for Monday, July 5th on Photographing the DC Memorials from Evening to Night. One of the things that students at my last workshop on Art of Architecture: Photographing the Franciscan Monastery appreciated a lot was the “intimate” nature of the class, and how that lent [...]