Sean Roux
I am writing up this post for a couple of reasons. One, to share a few shots from a recent photo shoot that I had the opportunity to have recently with musician Sean Roux. He wanted a classic, casual look to the photos so we shot nearly entirely on my Hasselblad which I love shooting with and we got some really great images from the session. We used nothing but natural lighting in a few casual scenarios around in his daily life and I am really happy with the way they came out. Thanks for the opportunity and permission to share them here with everyone Sean!
The second reason to post this is to raise awareness that the films I used on the session apparently are in the process of being discontinued!!! Ugh! I just had the opportunity to try the fuji negative Pro color films and they are beautiful! I prefer them greatly to the Kodak Portra stuff that I had been shooting with before. And even worse, they are also going to stop making Neopan400 black and white film in 120 size! WTH is all that about? I just cant believe that, neopan400 is the only black and white film I shoot with in my Hasselblad and for good reason, its beautiful and versatile. All this news has me pretty depressed tonight really. Such is life. Well see how the situation develops. I sure am tempted to get a small credit card of some kind to buy up a bunch of these films to last me for a couple of years of shooting at least. Sigh, damn technology.
Anyways, hope you enjoy the photos. You can see more of them after the read more break below 
Monkey Temple
It has been all to long since I have had a chance to post something new round here so to remedy that I present this desktop for your consideration. The image is from my trip to India late last year, I took the shot in Jaipur at the entrance to a place loosely known as the monkey temple. The sun was setting and dozens of monkeys were running about with the city sprawling out behind them with the beautiful colors of sunset in the haze of the city. Monkeys have this wonderful ability to be full of character and life and its all to easy to take semi emotional photos of them. For those interested, it was shot with my Voigtlander R3M.
The large desktop version is only as good as my scanner will allow so its not super sharp but the charm of these subtle colors and soft focus may be just fine but ill leave that for you to decide, to download the desktop (wallpaper?) simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the zip containing the image and the terms of use. Also, if you link to this photo or post it on your blog please please link back here if you would and if you want to share desktops with friends simply link back here rather than to the zip. Thanks so much for your support, I will be getting the lens that will replace my 50mm and be back to shooting with my 5d again soon I hope.
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Dust
Who knew dust could be so interesting to take photos of? Actually, its something I have wanted to try and capture for a while, the essence of those tiny specks of dust floating about in a ray of light and had just such an opportunity yesterday while staying with my brother in Memphis. I took some obvious liberties with the color which is something I don’t do too often but I tried to do it tastefully. Im pretty happy with the way they came out, hope you enjoy them as a desktop as much as I had fun trying to shoot thousands of dust particles floating through the air.
To download these images simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the attached zip file. Inside you will find all of the images above in a nice wallpaper size that should work for most anyone as well as the terms of use which in essence state that these are for your personal use only and can not be used in any sort of commercial sense outside that of your personal desktop wallpaper. Thanks for visiting and ENJOY!
Five Questions
I was asked recently to answer five questions focusing on my gear and technique as a photographer. I Had fun answering the questions and thought I would share a link for you guys here for those of you interested in knowing a little more about my approach, my gear and my desires as a photographer. It was a nice way to start the new year, giving myself some time to think about what will come next.
Ten Hearts
I took this photo at a coffee shop the other day simply because I loved the odd mug I was handed. Used the shiny black table and lights of the shop to create what I immediately figured would become a fun desktop to post. The lens used is not my typical 50mm, rather its an old 35mm that I sold to my brother a couple of years ago and miss so much after using it this week that I think I will be selling here on the site and wherever else I can post it for sale so keep an eye out if your interested. Its not a cheap lens but as you have seen around here it can take some great photos heh. Right, as for the desktop..
To download the full size version of the cups here simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the attached zip file which also contains the terms of use so you know that the image is for your personal desktop wallpaper needs only without my permission otherwise. Its tricky keeping track of images these days so I can only hope everyone does their part to help me out with this so I can continue to do this for years to come. Hmmm, I wonder why I don’t put together a book? Why did I not realize that until just now. Anyone who bothered to read this far, any thoughts on that?
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This was a small box of a shop on the side of a small street in Jaisalmer and one of my favorite portraits from the trip. I had to shoot pretty quick so they would not get uncomfortable as they already looked confused after sticking my light meter in front of them. I framed it a little low but I like that you can see the space around the tiny shop on the edges of the frame. It seems to give it a subtle sense of what your looking at.
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