Shooting With The Diana Instant Camera
I took a couple of weeks off from this newsletter and that's okay. Things have been very mellow. We went on a little overnight trip to Bar Harbor/Acadia...
Testing Out The Mamiya RB67
When I was in art school I had a ton of access to really great gear. It was my first exposure to studio lights and modifiers, pro-level DSLRs like the Canon...
RIP To My Favorite Tree
When we moved into our apartment last summer I was immediately smitten with this big, sad locust tree between our driveway and the neighbor's property. The...
Birthdays and Book Binge
Not much to report this week. Didn't take many pictures because we were all sick and then we were busy planning and executing an excellent 5th birthday party...
Necessary Evil
I think that a lot of people think of wedding photography as being kind of a "normie" genre of photography. To an extent that can be true. Search Instagram...
Back to Work
Goofballs Happy New Year! I got to close out the year with two nice shoots and now I'm back in the "chill zone." On Friday I did a portrait session at...
The Gulch / Highlights
We are in The Gulch/The Gooch/the liminal space between Christmas and New Years and as always it feels weird. I have been sidelined with a weird cough/chest...
100 Isn't Happening / Lens Test / End of the Year Best Scams List
There's no way I will achieve 100 photo assignments this year. It's okay. Resting is okay. Sickness and weather have resulted in many cancellations so it...
Apparently Every Person In The World Is Sick
Fun week! I had two shoots (#93 and 94) and Photo A GoGo happened. The photo show as great. Huge turnout. We brought our kids and they were very well...
The Countdown Plus Attempted Family Portraits
As I mentioned in an earlier newsletter I am very close to reaching my goal of shooting 100 photo assignments this year. My criteria is that it needs to be...
Feeling Good + Inconvenient Graves
Thanksgiving came and went and I feel great. I usually get really depressed during holidays and I have no idea why. I think it helped that this year the four...
Found Some Snow
Well, it's not summer any more. It's finally consistently cold and this past week I shot a small wedding at Maine's premiere (but still pretty humble) ski...
Mini-Vacation
I had a week off and it was awesome. Chilled hard. Lilly went out of town for a wedding and I partied with the kids (went to Target a lot). During that time...
Backyard Dithering and Mini-Film Dump
I shot a wedding on Saturday and now I have a week and a half off without any shoots. Is this a vacation? Give me just a little bit of downtime and my brain...
The Body Rebels
Man, I try so hard to add substance to this newsletter beyond "Damn, I'm busy" but damn, I'm busy. October is my busiest month of the year, and this year I...
Antiquing
I had another wild week. Lots of shoots. Lots of trips to Cape Elizabeth. Four consecutive days shooting in C.E., at the lighthouse, the beach, and the fancy...
The Fog!
View from Fort Foster in Kittery, Maine I had a bunch of shoots this week and I've had to be on constant weather-watch because we have been experiencing...
Lonesome Sundown
This week's newsletter title comes from this song, presented here as a cover since one of the original performers was cancelled! The grind continues. Busy...
Outtakess, Big Surf, Wind, Emotional Country Club Weddings, Artificial Grass, and a Guy Playing Taps at a Light House
I knew that this week would be anther laundry list of my assignments-style newsletter so I thought it would be funny to just write it all in the title,...
Rainy Weddings and Mountain Hangouts
My decoy set up on Cathedral Ledge It will be a brief update this week. I have been quite busy lately. I will continue to be busy for the next couple of...