photography

Icing

    I was having a big time out in the yard photographing the glassy branches when a big oak limb in my neighbor’s yard snapped and fell to the ground, bringing a power line (or cable line? not sure) to the ground with it. I thought for a split second she’d coming running outside and see me there at midnight and suspect I’d done something to bring the branch down, but then I realized…

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photography project 365 (2009)

Day 244: 50D

My little silver Rebel XTi, which my dad got for me a couple of years ago when I started commandeering his own XTi every time I’d come home to visit, has served me so incredibly well these past two years. It has truly been my introduction to photography, even though I took about two seconds of a black and white film class at MTSU before dropping it because I could NEVER get the film on…

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art musings project 365 (2009)

Day 148: Autopilot

Inspiration comes in fits and starts and lately it’s been all fits — sputtering, screaming, whining, sobbing, wailing, grumbling, sighing, blinking, scowling, pounding fits — and I can’t help but try to imagine that this ongoing ennui is going to give birth to a bouncing baby something. I’m just not sure what. And that’s okay. If I’m sure of nothing else in my life, I can at least take comfort in knowing that this is…

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Beale Street Music Festival music project 365 (2009) work

Day 122: The Reverend

I hate to keep crossposting, but I am so tired and I’ve said what needs to be said over at the BSMF blog. Al Green at BSMF from Lindsey Turner on Vimeo. I didn’t realize until late Saturday that my media pass would get me into the photo pits. Last year, my basic media pass only got me to the media trailer; you had to have additional clearance to shoot artists from the pit (which…

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Memphis photography project 365 (2009)

Day 93: Closed

Tried to file some Very Important Paperwork today, but it completely completely slipped my mind that city offices would be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death day. So, next week. Last night Cameron Harper tweeted a link to the collection of LIFE Magazine photographs from the King murder scene that have just been released to the public for the first time. I clicked through them slowly and felt my breath leave my…

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