The Proprpostur Style Book

I came across this video by ProprPostur, featuring a moving fashion lookbook.

Proprpostur Style Book s/s 2011 from Propr Postur on Vimeo.

Seeing a well made video like this makes me want to shoot even more, and makes me wish I had a 7D. Hello? Canon?

My Lens-Abram Tymeek

I promised last month to show the photos form my shoot with Abram.



We shot outside a renovated church in one of my favorite locations, Northern Liberties, because of the cool modern feel of the new buildings, and the red bricks and Italian themed architecture, hip spots, and free parking. I liked the colors of the brick and green shutters, and the wide doors, but Abram wandered to the alley on the side and we found a heap of demolished rubble and beautiful lighting leaking through. I love "happy accidents"

East Coast Earthquake 2011

The first earthquake since the 1960's struck Virginia yesterday and I barely noticed.

I thought it was construction equipment shaking the ground!

What is worse is the West coast laughing at us and our little quake...smh

ER, Greys Anatomy, Hawthorne...

I have been away from the blog for most of July because of some persistent medical problems. Fortunately, my symptoms haven't been life threatening, although it felt like I was having a heart attack, prompting a couple ER visits.

Everything was fine, and now that I switched doctors, I'm hoping that I will begin to feel like my old self (but better!) again.

Get Used To Hearing “NO”.

Something I can relate to a little too much..

If you’re already a professional photographer or filmmaker, then you know that you had to hear a lot of “no” for every “yes”. If you’re not yet a pro, or perhaps more importantly if you are a pro whose enjoyed a taste of success, then hear this: Get Used To Hearing “No”.

But this isn’t a bad thing. “No” serves several functions.

1. Let “no” serve as a motivator. If you don’t win a gig from an agency or a magazine, if you lose it to another photographer, vow to win the next one. Make a plan for how to do it different, better than you did last time. Make new photos, prepare, hone your vision, whatever it takes.

2. Let “no” keep out the other people who don’t want it as bad as you do. Remember, when you’re hearing “no”, so is almost everyone else. When other artists hear “no” too much, they quit, defeated, never to return again. Don’t let that be you. When you hear “no”, let it remind you of this little post.

Read more here at Chase Jarvis' blog.