April 23

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Photos taken in California in February.

Coastal Dusk, August

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Some photos taken in Maine last August, just after sunset. I still remember the quality of the light that day, it was incredible. A combo of blue & pink & gold.  I’m really looking forward to a visit to Maine next month.

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(p.s. – I spent some time last week browsing Susanna Howe’s photography portfolio. I especially like this gallery, Informal Cascade – the captions are full of great stories and anecdotes and the photos are incredible).

April 15

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Only time for a quick post today – above, an outtake from the lookbook I photographed for paa back in January.

This is Shinobi Ramen in Bushwick – Shinya is the man.

Nick van Woert Studio Visit

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I recently photographed a studio visit with Brooklyn artist Nick van Woert for Sight Unseen – see the entire feature HERE. Nick is a really, really interesting guy and speaks very thoughtfully about his work. It was a fun shoot.

Also:
+ Speaking of Sight Unseen, I love this “At Home With” feature with Luren Jenison.
+ More about me on Freunde von Freunden
+ I shaved that beard off this morning, in a fit of spring fever. And now I look like I’m 12 years old.
+ Still working around the clock on updating my portfolio website. You’ll hear it here first when it is finally ready … I’m excited. (This is the main reason I haven’t been posting here often (well, that and the hundreds of photos that I’m editing simultaneously)).
+ Monsieur Lazhar was a wonderfully understated gem of a film. Highly recommended.
+ Listening to Arthur Russell (in particular, “Soon-To-Be Innocent Fun / Let’s See“) on repeat this week.  Good for working, but that song sort of kills me inside. 

More soon.  Back to editing.

April 3

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California, February 2013
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My friend Olga Bennett asked me to share 5 of my favorite books for inspiration – she’ll be posting the books throughout April on her blog, along with a couple of my photos of each book and some words about why I like it. Today, she posted the first installment, Neue Welt by Wolfgang Tillmans. Check it out!

(ps: Olga is an incredible photographer, if you aren’t familiar with her work, see more on her PORTFOLIO. )

They Let It Go

Sea Ranch, California – Feb. 2013

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The Neighbors

by Jack Ridl

Sometimes they
go outside, maybe

move a rosebush
to the back yard or

clean a window.
Usually they

simply stand,
under a maple

or in a snowfall.
And this is often

when they see
a nuthatch on its

dizzy route down
a trunk, or

the quick flick
of a chickadee

across the yard
and onto a branch.

They don’t do
much. That’s for

others. They know
how to take things

for granted, know
what to miss.

Every morning
they make breakfast.

And when the sun
sets, they let it go.

(“The Neighbors” by Jack Ridl, from Practicing to Walk Like a Heron. © Wayne State University Press, 2013)

Smoke Study

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A photographic study of the smoke produced by a small stick of incense in the afternoon light. In the last photo, you can see how the smoke has now started to fill the room, indicated by the haze along the top of the frame.

Archives – France

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I’ve been working hard on a new portfolio website – I hope it will be ready next week (fingers crossed). One of the fun parts about this process is going back through all of my archived photographs. Above, I’m sharing 3 photos from France taken in 2011 – in Baron and Uzès. I especially love the 2nd photo, it was a wedding procession through the winding streets of Uzès, it just happened to pass me as I sat on a small wall in the sun. I remember this trip well … it was a difficult time although I saw so much beauty in southern France. I was escaping dreary August weather in London but I ended up spending most of my holiday stuck in my hotel room on conference calls for work, around the clock. I took quick breaks for sunbathing by the pool and a bit of exploring. I still remember picking a peach from a tree on a road near the hotel, after a particularly stressful phone call with a client in India. It was the best peach I’ve ever eaten. Life-saving, really.

March 26

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Top – a recent portrait I took of my friend Dom.
Bottom – vase still-life.

 

I FEEL THE SUN

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Since winter will JUST. NOT. STOP. around here, I needed to post some photos from California in February. Avoidance tactic as I pull on my boots and venture into the miserable GD snow.

(Endless winters: Reason No. 87 to move west.)