Monthly Archives: August 2008
FALL FLICKS
There are so many good movies coming out in the next few months. We’ve compiled an exhaustive list of films that we won’t be missing. At last count there were at least 20… Who else is glad the effect of the writer’s strike is over!!!?!!
DAY OF SHOOTING
Today Mustafah and I enjoyed a guy’s day. We’ve both been slammed for several weeks, and decided to enjoy ourselves sans female company for a few hours. The day started with a trip to the shooting range. We armed ourselves with our Beretta of choice and spent a couple of hours taking our stress out on the targets. I won’t publish publicly who was the better marksman… … …
A couple of years ago I photographed an ad campaign for Beretta USA. I hadn’t actually had the pleasure of shooting that brand of gun before (a PX4 Storm), so it was fun getting to know my former subjects.
After unloading our stress, we headed across the street to the local Calumet photo store, to drool over some Canon lenses (24mm f1.4 L; 45mm f2.8 TS) and other toys. Then it was off to the movie theater to see Pineapple Express (much much funnier than I expected!)
We finished off the day with some quality kosher hotdogs. All in all, just about a perfect day.
PATAGONIA DETAILS
sometimes when i’m focused on completing a particularly story i don’t get photograph for leisure.
yet my travels often allow me to make pictures i wouldn’t have normally sought out. these are moments to be seized and while i implore you not to take these too seriously, they’re a small batch of pictures i’ve showed next to no one.
all these pictures have stories. i arrived at the bottom of the world in a backwater town called Puerto Natale, then promptly went to sleep against my backpack in the grass, only to wake up to some puppies trying to go for my energy bar while getting warm next to my body. they ate my lunch and i made pictures, one stray dog to another.
in another i watched the strong Patagonia wind bend a mighty tree like a blade of grass. yet in another i looked down at my lunch that, minutes earlier, had just swam in the cold waters around Cape Horn and debated whether to use salt and garlic, or garlic and pepper, or both.
these are pictures that i’d never shoot unless my path somehow crossed with theirs. and it’s made me realize: truly, there’s beauty in everything.
hope you like.
