10am Update: Al Paglione from EAW
Al Paglione takes reprise from cooking during the 2006 Eddie Adams Workshop to chomp on a Cuban cigar…This is Al Paglione. He and his son help cook at the Eddie Adams Workshop. Meeting him was pretty great! I was shooting him with my 17-55mm and he was totally jockin’ me about my zoom. He was [...]
10am Update: Sometimes you just gotta shoot it.
Saturday, September 26, 2009.
My assignment was to shoot the football game. But this kid was too cool to ignore.
The 10am Update is a regular feature showcasing some of the best images from my archive.
10am Update: Trees n’ feelings.
Jean Tansey stands amid a canopy of trees lining Sycamore Lane she maintains for the Cedacroft community. Her work has impressed the Baltimore Rec and Parks so much that they are using her program as a model.
When I was an intern I was a more anit-portrait than I am today. In fact I’m decidedly pro-portrait [...]
Creepy light test
I was building my lighting set up for a recent shoot and it resulted in a really cool, dark, creepy image.
The best thing about it, is that it gave me lighting ideas for my upcoming Athletes of the Year shoots. Sunmee Huh is lit with two gridded alien bees to her right and left.
Bill Lightfoot for AARP
Retired Richmond police officer Bill Lightfoot, photographed at his Richmond home, ended his 36-year career in law enforcement with the elder abuse unit, much of which
Careful, or your face is gonna stick like that.
Codiac Bolton shows off his funny face skills for a Maryland Family article about old wives tales, specifically about how childrens’ faces are apt to stick if they keep making faces. He is photographed at the PPC studio Friday, January 29, 2010. Below is a gallery of his face-making gamut.
10am Update: Chimney Sweep
Quddus Snyder sweeps chimneys to pay his way through graduate school, exploiting the trade he learned from his father to persue a Ph.D in International Relations and Constitutional Law at the University of Maryland.
I shot this as an intern with the Patuxent Publishing Co. This was one of my first major attempts at location lighting. [...]
10am Update: The Lizard Guy
“This house is like Jerassic Park North,” kids Gordon Hyssong, a 65 year old self-proclaimed herpetologist who shares his Parkville home with almost 40 reptiles, a fish tank full of hissing cockroaches and an ornery parrot names Caesar.
This guy was intense! I met him back in November, 2004, while I was an intern at the [...]
10am Update: Leaving Mom
(October 24, 2007) After we finished eating brunch at J. Christopher’s, I left for Baltimore. Grandmommy learned the virtue of not snapping into “pose mode” when I tried making a picture of her. Mom, cried. I knew she would. The day fit the mood. Georgia was going through a horrible drought, so the drizzle [...]
10am Update: Ray Lewis for The Sporting News
Back in October, 2009, I got the opportunity to photograph one of the greatest defensive players ever, the
10am Update: Hat and Gun
The Almshouse in Cockeysville held ground for some Civil War reenactors, Saturday afternoon April 21, 2007. According to Civil War reenactor Ralph Aitkin, from Lewistown, PA, during the Civil War times, embalmers, were members of the upper class and doctors, by trade. They brandished fancy pistols to ward off thievery, and wore expensive hats to [...]
10am Update: Sara from the Collective
The Collective’s modern dancer Sara Few. We had this shoot in my basement, Monday January, 22 2007. and no! it wasn’t creepy. This is part of a photo series featuring The Collective Dancers.
I’ll post more in future 10am Updates.
Pianist
Reynaldo Reyes is a distinguished professor of piano at Towson University. He is photographed at the Fine Arts building’s recital hall Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
Don’t Step to this!
(L-R) Marty Day, Nick Borkowicz, and (cough cough) Me. This was shot this back in May, 2006.
We got a wild hair up our asses one night. cheap sunglasses, headbands, and novelty gold medals… boom!
Believe it or not, the structure behind us is — check this out — made of styrofoam!!!!! Marty’s step dad does some [...]
Test Shot
If no one else is around, this is how I sometimes test out my lighting set up.
Truth be told, I had a fun Maryland Family shoot article about old wives tales, specifically about how childrens’ faces are threatened to “stick.”
HAT TRICK! NPPA: Monthly News Clip Contest
WooHoo!!! I cleaned up in the Illustration category for December’s NPPA: Monthly News Clip Contest.
RollAARRRRRR Derby!!!
Chesapeake Roller Derby members She Legs (Sharon Stahl), left, and China Maiden (Jeannie Graham), both from Jacksonville, MD, are in the region’s new co-ed roller derby league. Dressed in full pirate regalia, The Mutiny skaters are photographed after practice at the Danele Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster, Thursday, January 7, [...]
Announcer
Mike Criscuoli, Pallotti class of 2009, won the National Association of Sports Public Address Announcers’ 2009 High School Student Public Address Announcer of the Year.
Stan.
Sports Columnist for the Columbia Flier and the Howard County Times Stan Ber will be inducted into the Community Sports Hall of Fame later this year.
Light the Emotion!
Ben Bender linked to an article on Emotional Lighting when he commented on my recent post, Shoot the Emotion!
So, since I love to use lighting, I think it’s worth discussing.
Now, this may not be the best photo to describe emotional lighting, buuuut, it’s by far the most convenient. I shot it Saturday.
I gotta ask: is [...]
Nice hat, lady!
Vivian Keyser, from Catonsville, sports a fancy hat for the Fourth of July parade festivities.