August 2008
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Me shoot pretty one day
I was told once here that I should be studying Annie Leibovitz’s books to become a better photographer. Well now she has one geared just for people like me! If I have an extra $40 plus shipping one day, I’ll have to get it.
Insert your own caption
I love the dark ambiguity in this shot from last week. Then I run across this piece in the New York Times. (here)
Quoted:“…change the caption and you change the meaning of the photographs. You don’t need Photoshop. That’s the disturbing part. Captions do the heavy lifting as far as deception is concerned. The pictures merely [...]
Thomasville Theatre
Here’s a few shots of the Thomasville Theatre at night I did a while back. I think the tight vertical crop in black and white is the most classic and I’ve sold a couple of prints of it. I’ve offered to show the other angles I shot that night to someone who is also interested [...]
Getting published
Two Thomasville photographers got the covers of publications this year! Elizabeth Ledkins had a bride shot make the cover of Portico Magazine, and yours truly had a shot selected for the cover of this year’s directory for the Alabama Press Association. We ran Elizabeth’s shot in the paper this week in case you missed it. [...]
Things past
This is what’s left of one of the Sunday School rooms at Tuskegee United Methodist Church. A beautiful building, it was wounded by the ugliness of racism in certain members of the congregation in the 1960s. Once a membership of more than 400 is now down to about 12. They meet in the fellowship [...]