Like most folks, I have two days a week off from work. Most times I spend those days taking pictures, getting caught up around the house, running errands and avoiding phone calls from…work. These past couple of days off were much the same with one exception. I sat down and watched Star Wars Episode …
… that’s what they told him when they handed him his orders. He’d heard it before and the phrase had always proven to be false. He was to take a squad of highly trained, and very specialized troops to a planet, so far removed from their usual area of operation, that it …
I find it next to impossible to take a picture and not have some sort of story attached to it. Shelly wrote a piece earlier about the importance of stories from the audience perspective. I am one of those people that looks at a picture and wants to know what’s happening, happened, or about to …
When I began writing this, I went about it all-wrong… I treated it as an assignment. “Why do I photograph toys…?” Hmmmmm. I went off on an “artsy-fartsy” tangent and got all philosophical. “I PHOTOGRAPH TOYS BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE!” Or something like, “Well, often times my figures express how I am feeling much more …
