"There is a crack in everything…"
May 10th, 2009
-Leonard Cohen
Cannery Snaps
May 2nd, 2009
Here are a few snaps from the Cannery gallery during the art walk last night.
There was a surprisingly large turnout despite the intermittent torrential rain. I think my little corner in the gallery turned out to look pretty good in spite of pulling it all together in two days.
I didn’t expect so many people to be there. I had planned to go when it started at 5 p.m. and hang around for a couple hours, then go home. But I ended up talking to so many people that I lost track of time and looked at my watch and it was 10 p.m., time for the gallery to close. Oh…and there was beer…not to mention free food.
One of my models came by to say hello and, of course, wanted her picture taken standing beside her picture.
My photos will be on display at the Cannery through the month. The semi-annual Urban Nights art event happens in the middle of the month, so my work will be up for that. Unfortunately I’ll be out of town doing a photo shoot on that day, so I won’t be able to be at the gallery. But the photos will be there if you’d like to go by and have a look or even buy a print.
Cannery Show
April 29th, 2009
A quick post to let you all know that I’ll have some prints on display at the Cannery Gallery in downtown Dayton for the month of May. This opportunity came up suddenly, so what I’m putting up is what was framed and ready to go. Some old and some new. But at least they will be out where they can be seen instead of just hanging in my studio.
There’s an art walk this Friday, May 1. The gallery will be open for that from 5 to 10 p.m. I’ll be there at least part of that time. There will be food and drink available. So if you are in the Dayton area and looking for something to do Friday night why don’t you come on by the Cannery and say hi.
Cannery Art and Design Center
434 East Third Street
Dayton, OH
937-313-9883
www.canneryarts.com
The photo up there is something new I just shot a few days ago with _G_ in an old building in downtown Springfield. I expect to be shooting in that building a lot in the future.
More Claudine
April 26th, 2009
More of Claudine at the beach. It was cold. It was very windy. Claudine was a total trooper, though she did have to close her eyes because of all the sand blowing around in this spot, just off the beach on Lake Michigan. I’m loving those shadows and all the lines and angles along with Claudine’s lovely curves.
We got a lot of good photos that morning. More to come. But I also have more to show you from the shoot with Luxxx. And I did a new shoot today with Gaea in a special location. Those photos will be coming soon too…and maybe one of these days some information on why the location is special. But you’ll just have to be patient for that.
Claudine
April 24th, 2009
Before I went to Chicago a couple weeks ago I asked a friend who shoots nudes and has a lot of time living in Chicago if he could suggest some models for me to contact. His first recommendation was Claudine. I looked at her portfolio and knew I wanted to shoot with her if possible. I contacted her and was surprised and very pleased to find out that she was familiar with my work and that I was on her list of photographers she wanted to work with.
So, we set up a shoot for a cold and windy dawn at a location near Gary, Indiana, that my friend also suggested. Despite the early hour and the very cold wind, Claudine was spectacular as a model and a very nice person to spend time with. I hope I’ll be able to work with her many times in the future.
This photo was taken in dunes along Lake Michigan. This spot had a little bit of shelter from the wind blowing off the lake, but it was still pretty cold. Claudine is great at posing and did a fine job for this photo. I had told her just to go over there and make herself like a dune. She totally got what I was going for.
There are many more good photos from this shoot. I’ve had a hard time finding time to do a proper edit because of other things going on right now. That’s also why there haven’t been may posts here recently. Some major changes are coming in my photography world. More on all that when the time is right.
Meanwhile, enjoy Claudine. More to come.
Detroit Show
April 19th, 2009
I drove up to Detroit yesterday to go to the Midwest Society of Erotic Photography show at the CPOP Gallery. It was a lot of fun. Good food, good music and, most importantly, a lot of good people. The gallery was beautiful and the show was very nicely presented.
Those are my three prints on the right in the photo above. Below is the musical entertainment being videotaped by one of the many lovely women who were in attendance.
As you know if you’ve been reading this blog, I’ve been pretty much constantly traveling for the past two weeks. I hope this Detroit trip was the end of that for a few weeks. This week I plan to do some shooting, select some juried shows to enter and get those entries sent off, and I’ll try to make some headway in editing some of my backlog of shoots, including what I did in Chicago. So there just might be some new nudes showing up here soon.Chicago Faces
April 15th, 2009
I’m still in Florida. Flying back home in the morning. My daughter is ok, but didn’t feel well enough to go back to school today, so I’m just keeping an eye on her while she rests today. This evening I’ll take her somewhere for dinner, then take her to her dorm where her friends will look after her.
So, here’s another photo from Chicago last week. That’s Tim on the left. Giant face on the right.
By the way, these Chicago snaps (not the nude of Luxxx) were all shot with the little Casio camera that has lived in my pocket for several years now. It’s not the greatest little camera, but it is always in my pocket, so it’s there when I need it. It does a great job with snaps and even makes little videos. It did fine at recording my grandson’s first successes at learning to crawl. I’ve had it so long I keep expecting it to die and have to be replaced, but it just keeps right on working and turning out snaps. One of these days I’ll do something stupid, like go wading in a stream or something, and forget that it’s in my pants pocket. If that happens I may look at one of those new waterproof cameras to replace it. But it ain’t broke, so I’m not going to replace it.
Nude in Chicago
April 13th, 2009
OK…I’m still shooting nudes. I worked with a couple models while I was in Chicago. This is LuxxxNoir and, trust me, she was nude when I took this photo. I told her she could leave her hat on. I shot with her the last time I was in Chicago and she was the first model I contacted when I knew I was going back. She’s great. A fine model and a nice person to be around. I shot more than this photo, so you will probably see more of her here soon.
Things are going well in Florida. My daughter is recovering well from her surgery with no complications. So I’m just keeping an eye on her and making sure she has what she needs to be able to rest and get back to normal.
Life is full of surprises.
April 12th, 2009
“Man plans. God laughs.”
I’m in Tampa right now. Not a trip that was on my calendar. My daughter, who is in college down here, had to have her appendix removed yesterday. When I heard what was going on I got on the first available flight and arrived here late last night. Ironically, after driving home from Chicago on Thursday I found myself sitting at O’Hare waiting for a connection on Saturday.
My daughter is doing well. She was discharged from the hospital this morning and I’m taking care of her in my hotel room until she feels well enough to go back to her dorm.
I’ll be back in Ohio Thursday, just in time to keep an appointment with my eye doctor. Then Saturday it’s up to Detroit for the “Seduction of Art” show by the Midwest Society of Erotic Photography at the CPOP gallery. I’ll be hanging around there Saturday evening if you are in the area and want to say hi.
OK…so today’s photo is not so erotic…unless you have some very unusual kinks, I guess. Just something I saw during a drive through upstate New York last fall. I considered it just a snapshot, but my wife really likes it, to the extent that she had some note cards printed up with it on the cover. I had to agree that it made a nice note card. It has me thinking about printing up some of my non-nude work to take to one of the galleries that is not selling my prints despite them being nicely displayed. Maybe some of this type of thing might actually sell occasionally. I don’t mind shooting things like this…they just don’t seem to have much content for me, beyond being pretty…but some folks might say that’s true of my nude work as well.
Beaner, Beaner, Beaner
April 8th, 2009
I’ve been in Chicago this week. Today I saw the Karsh exhibit and the Munch exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute. Both those shows are fantastic, as I expected. If you are near Chicago, get there to see them before they leave at the end of this month. Unfortunately for this visit, anyway, much of the institute’s modern art collection is in storage in preparation for the opening of their new modern art gallery in May. Didn’t get to see any Picassos on this trip. I’ll just have to come back.
After we left the art institute my old friend and former Chicago resident Tim, and I walked around the lake front for a while, visiting “The Bean” where I took this snapshot of us with my pocket point and shoot and having pizza at a wonderful little place that Tim remembered from his days living there and working for the Associated Press.
Back home tomorrow.
