So for the first time in my photographic career I’m in a show. Amazing. The big one in the center is mine as well as two of the other images. I can’t wait to see if they sell.
Posted to: The Show by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick

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Posted to: Brothers On A Hotel Bed from the album “Plans” by Death Cab For Cutie

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So, almost ten months after my first attempt, I’m going to shoot The Hold Steady again. They’re playing Ybor City tomorrow night and I’m beside myself with anticipation. Mostly because I know the show’s going to be good; the new album is great. Anyway…watch this space for the results

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The following is a snippet from a conversation as I remember it:

me: liked the new photos you put up, but that border…

artist: you don’t like the border?

me: no. actually i hate it.

artist: that’s unfortunate. clearly you don’t know s#!* about design
…and so it goes
Posted to: Drinking At The Dam from the album “A River Ain’t [...]

Last night Sputneck and I met up after work for a drink and dinner. Being men of simple minds, we went for what we know: The Rockford in downtown Raleigh. As we were chatting at the bar one of the employees asked if I was a photographer. A bit surprised I said yes and asked [...]

I was reading our independent weekly–cleverly called The Independent–this Saturday when I saw a picture that looked rather familiar. It took me a second, but I finally realized it was a shot I took in October of Nathan Asher & The Infantry. I was so tickled that I had to tell my waitress, “Hey, I [...]

Yesterday I conducted an experiment and I think the results are more than a little illuminating. I decided that I was going to make prints for the purposes of hanging on my walls. The idea was that these were to be the types of prints that I would feel comfortable selling for more than a [...]

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Of the 4 shots used in the Flash display thingy, three are mine. Yes, I know, the shots are uncredited. At this point, I’m not all that worried about it. I mean, they know I took the pictures, and they (or their label) are the most likely source of additional work. The other thing [...]

I noticed that I had a comment on one of my Hold Steady pics on Flickr the other day. Since they’d been up for nearly a month I was a bit surprised. I checked it out and, well, here it is:
I look at many Hold Steady photos. This one is my very favorite. Galen’s Mom
Who’s [...]

MSNBC.com has done their annual Year in Pictures. Definitely worth a look.

Up until this weekend I had been using Adobe’s Camera Raw conversion to take my Nikon NEF files and bring them into Photoshop CS2. No more! After doing some experimenting I discovered that the Nikon Raw plugin for Photoshop does a much better job of getting the colors right. It takes a bit longer but [...]

Slightly edited IM conversation:
Sean: that’s a fantastic picture!
bill: of the leaves?
Sean: yeah, you [expletive deleted]
Sean: that’s the shot I’ve been wanting to take for a week!
Sean: a really good fall shot
Sean: god, i hate knowing you
Sorry, it’s a private gallery, so I can’t show it to you. No, really. It is. This is why [...]

I’ve decided that “Because the image matters” is just a wee bit too pretentious. Got an idea? Leave a comment or e-mail me.

For anyone who came looking to post a comment and couldn’t, I apologize. Thanks to the very talented Tamara Nicol (see her work at White Light and Shadows) who pointed out that the comment feature was broken. I’ve fixed it. All you have to do to leave a comment is click on the title of [...]