Weird

As I struggle to refine my style, what bothers me the most is that I don't think I'm mainstream, nor do I want to be. But I also don't think I'm weird enough to be considered cool and weird. I think people just look at my work and wrinkle up their brow and go, "humpf." Very few people "get me," but I think that may because I don't always "get me." I mean I don't know what, if anything, I'm trying to say. There's no deep, underlying message in my photos, and if there is, I don't know what it is. I just like to make unusual things and make people wear them. Can art be as simple as that? Should there be more to it?

I don't know.

Tourist Season

A model from California came to shoot with me. He's never been to DC before so I felt compelled to take him to all the monuments. Having been around DC time and time again, I get tired of photographing the monuments. So here's my shot from the day. It tells you a different story about tourists, I think. I have to admit, I was surprised to see so many apple cores, I thought tourists were much more unhealthy than that.

What to Shoot Next?

I strained my back last weekend (lugging photo equipment around, of course). It requires me to take super hots baths for 20 minutes at a time. I'm lying there trying to think of what to shoot next and, well, you see what I came up with.

Nothing like lying in your tub, trying to relax and then jumping up and getting your camera. Sometimes I think photographer's brains are wired a little differently. Always framing a shot, looking at lighting, figuring out what is the lowest ISO that will work in a location.

For those who care, I shot it with ambient light only, ISO 4000, F4, 1/50 sec. My bathroom is really dark and really tiny.

Wilson Bridge Shoot

I went walking across the Wilson Bridge today. I thought it would be a good place to test out my new tilt and shift lens. Well, I still need some practice with the tilt and shift lens, but I do like this image, shot from under the bridge. No tilt or shift used.

Here's one of my car on the road below. That has full on tilt, but it's not quite right. But it was a good day for a walk and I did need the practice.