http://blog.richdphoto.com Infidel. Heretic. Dissident. Skeptic. Iconoclast. Photographer. And proud of it. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:47:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's wonderful to have clients who love my work so much that they want seconds (or thirds, as the case may be). Some of my favorite clients have asked me to come back, all the way from New Hampshire, to make some more photographs for them. Consequently I am pleased ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=305 Spent the day at the 30th Annual Somersworth International Children's Festival yesterday. Let me preface this post by saying that "event photography" is not exactly my forté. Especially at events like this one, the backgrounds are busy no matter which way you turn, there's next to no control over lighting situations ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=283 Thanks to my colleague Stacie Turner for reminding me of this most eloquent (and excellent) thought: Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=281 My friend and mentor Jock Sturges is publishing a special portfolio of his model (and goddaughter) Fanny, made over the course of about 20 years, featuring three never-before-seen images and several more that are high in their edition numbers or sold out (i.e. otherwise unavailable "new"). The folio will contain ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=280 Following up his great talk at the 2006 TED conference, on How Schools Kill Creativity (which I blogged about last year), Sir Ken Robinson returns this year to once again challenge our fundamental assumptions about education: Original available on the TED website. http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=279 I came across an image today (linked via Digg by someone I follow on Twitter), that struck me as both timely and profound. In a day and age where media bombards us from all sides with information, misinformation, disinformation, and constant attempts to influence our behaviour, it seems we have to ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=278 Well, it's pretty much all done. Computers are on desks, books are on shelves, clothes are in closets ... just a few little things left to sort out and put away. *Whew!* Moving SUCKS! Unless, of course, you've got somebody like A Perfect Move on your side! When ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=277 We all like to be liked. It's part of the human condition. It makes us feel good when we know somebody else likes us. But being liked isn't everything. I attend a number of networking groups every week, where we get to know other businesspeople and the goods and services they have ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=276 Buckminster Fuller is one of those people who is high on my list of people I find inspiring. Not only did he have one of the most awesome names EVAH!!!, he was also a gifted scientist, engineer and teacher. He gave us, among other things, the geodesic dome ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=275 One of the things that just makes my day, when it happens, is the arrival of another installment of Brooks Jensen's LensWork Podcast Recently one of the episodes really hit home with me, because it put into words a thought that I previously hadn't had the right words to express: In this ... http://blog.richdphoto.com/?p=274