Writing, Photography, and the life lessons I learned from Street Academy
Some time ago, I found an article on PetaPixel about a photographer who used a landscape beach shot to create a waycool mind-trippy photo image. Ocean air salty hair A photo posted by Jati Putra Pratama (@jatiputra) on Aug 5, 2015 at 12:41am PDT //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js That’s waycool and mind-trippy. And you know I want…
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“Mr. Miller, we need to take X-rays of your teeth this morning.” Great. Put a lead apron on my chest, place some weird metal chew-device in my mouth, aim a long plastic tube-gun at my face, and then BEEP. Repeat times 17. Yep, I’m at the dental practice of Mohler and Choo, D.D.S., getting my…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago, I had my model friend Lauren toss leaves in the air, while I photographed them (and her) with my Nimslo four-lens camera. Here was the best shot of the day, as far as I was concerned. I liked the way this image turned out. I really do. I actually thought…
Read MoreWhen I come up with a photographic concept, most times I can make it work simply because I’m the only person involved in the project. If I want to photograph a building, I will stand in front of it; I won’t ask the building to move to the other side of the street where the…
Read MoreWhen I visited the Durham Fair last September, I had my four-lens Nimslo camera handy. And yes, I took a few photos while I was there; the Durham Fair actually has a dedicated llama competition, and I wanted to capture some images of these majestic beasts. And I got these. Hope you like. View post…
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Last Sunday night, I had a blast photographing the blood moon eclipse. Probably drove all my Facebook friends nuts by talking about it so much. Near the end of the night, with the clouds oozing over the horizon, I had to put a stop to the photography – I couldn’t get a decent shot of…
Read MoreOkay. The last time I used my animated four-shot Nimslo film camera, I tried taking pictures of ducks in the pond. Although I did get some successful shots, I felt that I hadn’t really achieved what I wanted with this camera. I needed to experiment. I needed to take pictures here and there, and hope…
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The semi-gauzy illumination of the morning fills the cloudy, chilly sky. And deep along the wooden walkways of a small arboretum on the campus of a Central New York private college, I’m hoping that the photos I take this early morning will soothe my troubled, fractured soul. I’m here on the campus of Hamilton College,…
Read MoreThis was one of my shots that I’m contemplating putting in the “short pile” for competition season. This is one of my Aerochrome photos, and it was taken in Lake George at the Magic Forest amusement park. I think this is that mold of Paul Bunyan that’s appeared from time to time across the country;…
Read MoreSunday morning. I should be sleeping right now. I should be rolling over and slapping the alarm clock for daring to wake me up on a day of rest. And yet, I’m driving over to Washington Park. For some reason, this warm weather has drawn several waterfowl to the lake at Washington Park – ducks…
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