Signal to Noise

Hey Hey, Long time I've been SO busy... guess that's a good thing.

so I've been thinking.. and I've opened a Tumblr.

that's where I'll post roughly an image a day or so.

this Blog will be for more in depth behind the scene type rants....

As you can imagine an image a day with a quick quote is a lot easier to keep up on.

so yeah stay tuned more signal less noise in 2014!

I like all the different people I like sticky everywhere

Look around, you bet I'll be there!

Hot metal in the sun 

Pony in the air

Marshfield Fair.

Aleks my main man 

the Polish Avenger.

Julie and I met up with him and his 2 lovely Childrens.

Lee and Josselyn.

1/2 Chinese 1/2 Polish ALL AMERICAN!

and we went to the fair...

here are 26 photos from that day.....

 Children's Zoo

 one legged boo scoot'n

 but not during the day.......

 Purple death monkey.

Nuff Said

 Dreams of colorful friends to e forgotten.

 to the SUN

 Aleks and Lee and SUN

Mexi Mayan carni vendor....I can only imagine.

 Deflated hero

 Aleks Yelled "ATTICA" in between short controlled bursts

 almost....

 again...almost..

TEXTING AND DRIVING on the MUTHER F"N bummper cars!!!!

 this machine kills fascists?

 Giant OnionringOtang....

 this is a child's memory

 Florescent tubed German Fries for higher education.

 the world over....

 the Half Life Head Crabs have evolved. they now display cuteouflage...

 light up world...

 WONDER

 JOY!

 Sorrow.

 Winner

 I know...I know...

Random images from a busy life

well Summer is almost over.
it's colder at night now....so being cought 50 miles from home with out a proper jacket on the bike is a problem.

that's how I judge summer...

so it was a busy one!

here are some random images....shot for me...and others...and for love...and for money....

can't eat love.

but it can sustain you for quite some time..

Most of these images are shot on Medium format film....
why?
well that's another post...but I will say this big film just has a look....

so  Summer 2013...

there was some family Horse Shit.. 

( if you know my side of the family that's pretty spot on

and funny....you just got to laugh...)

 

A Wedding!!!!

One of the best I've ever been to or worked.

congrats to Dylan and Chelsea

 

  

 

Some of the people I showed these  frames to were angry....with the grooms hair...

really they were upset with some ones hair that they didn't know.

I know Dylan...and that's how he wears his hair.

So you know what I and the wedding party say?

Fuck em'

 there were Shenanigans!

 

and Parades! 

 

 

  

 Exploding octopuses in the sky.........

 Triumphs

 and Beemers

 

(BMW Krauser!)

  Ducati's 

HARLY'S that RACE!!!

 

OH my!

  

What summer wouldn't be complete with out the obliteration of the Vicious Skeet!

My Dad 83 and Uncle Barry 75

still getting it done!

and this.....

 

 this....... just might be a new series of personal work....

"this may be the best one yet".....

Bombings embargos and Nancy in the sunshine...

So every cool thing I have been shooting is embargoed.....

heck even the un cool stuff.

 and well seems these 2 jerks.......Alleged jerks.... bombed my city.

 and it's sucked for me... with the whole media circus and a lot of my friends work in health care...it's been... not so fun.

any way I've been very busy with work....keeping my mind off of things I guess.

but even with all that I do have one thing to share....

the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center got a brand new Chief Operating officer.

one Nancey Formella.

  a Really sweet person with a great sense of humor and a really nice singing voice.

yes I learned all of that in the 15 minuets I had with her.

so I get the call we are shooting her in a busy lobby at 5 pm.

you will only have 15 min's of her time.
 and we want 3 set ups.

the lobby shot will hopefully be the cover of the next quarterly Magazine the Institution puts out.

here is a ROUGH idea of what we want for the cover.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rough is right....
that's actually the 2nd one....it's clearer then the first one....

so armed with that knowledge.... I grab trusty Dave some speed lights and  a Photek SoftlighterII

cause it rocks!

 Here is our first set up.

Sb900 at 1/4 in the soft lighter camera Left.
Sb900 at1/16 with a Honl grid camera right and behind.

 F 4 @1/60th.....or so..


so the lovely and talented Nancy arrives.
and we swap Dave out for her and Dave goes on Traffic duty.....

the Client wants an above shot with more of the floor showing so we have cleaner  negative space for the type....

and that's why I always bring a step ladder....Cause I'm short.

so we knock this one out and do a quick pack up to head back to her new office for some " working" shots.

and on the way  crossing a bridge between buildings I spot some AWESOME light.
the sun is going down on one side of the bridge and the buildings on the other side are making a really flat light.

so I ask the nice lady to indulge me...please stand in this sunbeam for 20 seconds.
client is convinced I'm nuts....and we are running out of time.
but I toss Dave a reflector and make 5 frames...

here's the winner.

Turns out we didn't need the other shots any way.
the Magazine it was for got cancelled.

so we used the sunshine shot for a web article.


that seems to be happening more and more....Magazines folding...and sunshine shots....