Move along! Nothing to See Here!
They say not to take a picture without having some sort of story in your head as to why capturing this image matters….and the two photos I took tonight tell a great story!
The story is of denial of service:
President Obama came into Manhattan today and large sections of the streets were closed off… Where I do alot of lunchtime tromping about for photos. How exciting!!
Fuzzy Tower, 4-27-2011
YAY! So, I wanted to see my Mom’s President, take pictures… and so used my break time to come downstairs, fully prepared to weather yet another snarky look from professional photographers (there weren’t any!). Got my new lens out and…the police kept telling me I couldn’t take any pictures. I moved three times and then stood with the crowd, snapping away at every setting I could think of with my news lenses.
Of course, I personified the idea that the only thing worse than an “idiot camera” is the idiot who doesn’t quite know her camera and so moves every dial…thank goodness for Flash cards!
But, no danger to anyone. But, this is real, not a game, so I moved every time they asked me to. And, started looking for other quarry.
But, there were a LOT of other things to see tonight! it was really warm, so there was a tremendous amount of mist at the tops of buildings. Kinda magical!
Nothing to see here?
Ah but there is!
Fuzzy Tower Night Fog, 4-27-2011
Click!
Well.
I’ve started a lot of blogs in my time, but this one is kinda of special. Not quite ready to show edited images, and need to scan my collection of photos from years past, so for now here’s a photo from my iPhone taken last year:
Photography is an old, old interest. Ever since my uncle gave me my first camera (the Polaroid was the “family camera” and my Dad has one from…the war?), I’ve wanted to be a photographer. The problem was, in the days of wacky packages and Archie magazines, allowance didn’t go that far.
Then there was yarn, Tiger Beats and MadLibs to acquire…then viola strings guitar strings, sheet music, clarinet reeds….all of those things came mostly out of allowance. Which meant not a lot of spare cash to spend on Kodak film PLUS developing!
In those days, kids didn’t have credit cards.
But, in support of a new line of business for my company, I decided that stock photography be damned: the most useful photos would be ones to which I owned complete rights. The days of universal usage are over; stock photographers do *amazing* work, but their work is too pricey given the numerous web projects I run.
Today was my first proper photography course (now a lot of that old Photoshop stuff actually makes sense!), acquired a spiffy mid-range camera and I’m ready to go! I’ll post photos as soon as I complete my gear, because the files are huge.
New Idol: Kareem Black
Can this man take a bad picture? Can he?
http://www.kareemblack.com
07. July 2011 by R. Mullen
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