Went to an open house at the Atlanta Wedding Loft today to support our friends Andrew Niesen and Rachel LaCour of LaCour Photography and ShootQ. These lanterns in the photograph were in front of the loft blowing in the wind and lighting up the entire place. Loved the food and decor. It’s truly amazing what can happen when a group of committed people work together.
Featured 365-er—Patrick Offord: Met via the tasra365 challenge and he’s been a faithful commenter and twitter reader! When I asked who wanted to be featured here, he was one of the first to respond. Below is his story about being a photographer… so inspiring I had to include the entire thing…
As far as myself, I do not really consider myself a professional, I learn new things every day, feel like there is always something new to learn or create, and never ever will I know it all. I also don’t make a whole lot of money off of photography, this is probably because I really have no grasp of the business end of photography. With that said I think of myself as an amateur.
What I do know for sure is, I love photographing the world around me, the things I see, and the places I go… Meeting new people and learning about different cultures. To me there is never an end to learning new things. Photographs are a way of taking that very moment, and capturing it forever.. and sharing it with the world. Period. If everyone would take a single picture every day and share it with everyone else I think society would be in a better place.
I have a full time day job, and I have photography jobs here and there. Mostly I shoot Nature, city life, and my family and friends. Really though any excuse for me to get out of the house, explore, and capture the world around me is what I do, that’s what it’s all about for me. One day I would love to just photograph for a living, but that seems like a difficult thing to do. One thing I have never really done is studio type shots, using fancy lighting and backdrops. I am more of a natural light kind of person, and I use the world as a backdrop.. and that’s the way I love it!
I started off with a Polaroid in the 80′s, moved up to a Minolta SRT 100 SLR in the 90′s… had a few point and shoots (which I still own) into the 2000′s, and today I shoot with Sony alpha’s and Canon EOS’s. I love cameras, all of them! I love saving up for new lenses to see what new visions they will bring me. I even shoot tons and tons of polaroid style shot every day with my iPhone just for fun. I can’t imagine being far from a camera.
Manual: Page 123—Camera Error Messages & Displays.
Images: In honor of Irving Penn, celebrity photographer who passed away this week, I looked at his images online and in Time magazine. His story and style are fascinating:
His photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world. Penn, who constantly explored the photographic medium and its boundaries, typically preferred to isolate his subjects – from fashion models to Aborigine tribesmen – from their natural settings to photograph them in a studio against a stark background. He believed the studio could most closely capture their true natures.
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