Joe McNally and Edumacation ing

If you have not visited Joe McNally’s blog nor read either The Moment It Clicks or Hot Shoe Diaries let me be the one to introduce you to this amazing photographic genius.

Joe McNally is from Joisey too…okay that isn’t his claim to fame.  Joe ’s work has graced the covers of some of America’s biggest names in the magazine industry…you know magazines that made photojournalism cool.

Magazines like…LIFE, Sports Illustrated, ESPN and the famous Yellow Frame, National Geographic.  One can’t describe Joe’s style because it is so versatile…

He can make you cry, laugh or plain see the truth with his skill as a photographer. He also has a wicked sense of humor!

Well, imagine if you can this guru of capturing light now giving you lesson one on the basics of taking better photos. You say you can’t even begin to imagine this spectacle for the ages? Tell ya’ what I’m going to do…Through the magic of youtube brought to you is square one from the man himself….Da Grip.

Sheesh…one grip gives you one F/stop or one speed of film?  WOW!

and let’s give Nigel his day too…

 

Please take a moment and see Joe McNally’s project “Faces of Ground Zero“

Very cool piece in the NY Times today…

On Edward Weston…

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/29/travel/20090329-weston.html

Who is Edward Weston? Click here

Lucky 13

Last Saturday Night, Lucky 13 opened up for KJ Denhert.  These three singer/songwriters remind me of The Roches.

Kathy Kreger

 

Susan DeVita

Marci Geller

With very sweet harmony and wry wit, Lucky 13’s songs sweep around the listener like a color chiffon scarf, soft, pleasing and packed with sublte colors of meaning.

Check them out at http://www.lucky13.fm/

Just playing

K.J. Denhert – The Band

Mamadou Ba – Bass

Ray Levier – Drums

Etienne Stadwijk - Keyboards

These guys rocked the house…and took us to church!

Seriously, RUN don’t walk over to http://www.kjdenhert.com/  and take a listen.

KJ Denhert – Off.The.Hook.

Saturday night, I went to another Coffee With Conscience show.  This month the headliner was KJ Denhert.  How to describe her music…it’s like James Taylor, George Clinton, Phoebe Snow and Joni Mitchell all playing together in one body.

Apart from the moving lyrics and the steady funk backbeat, the biggest thrill seeing Ms. Denhert play is the obvious joy she gets from making music.  Her passion runs through to the marrow.

She calls her music “vibey”.  I don’t know what it means but I sure do know what it sounds and looks like…

Visit KJ Denert’s website here and give her music a listen, you won’t be sorry.

Black & White Flower Challenge

WOW…what were we thinking? This was hard!!!!! To see past the intensity of the two tone tulips or the variations of pink in the light colored tulips was a true challenge.  I started to process the light differently.

Here are three two toned tulips…

I photographed these first.  Looking back on them I am very disappointed with composition.  I think I was caught up in the novelty of the idea.  So, when I approached the light tulips, I really tried to position each blossom in a composition that showed the unique feature of the flower.

 

 

To see everyone’s flowers please visit KD’s excellent blog.

Playing with lights

On high

On half

Ellis Paul – In Action

Just an angel