Father like daughter

Last night I covered a reception that saw actor Sean Penn receive an award for his work in Haiti after the earthquake. Before the reception the press was allowed in his waiting room. As he was waiting for the next reporter I snap this frame.

We only had a few minutes with the actor, I started to search the room for something more. I happen to turn around and see this young lady sitting there watching this maddness surround Sean. At first I thought that it was his girlfriend, and then come later find out that it is his daughter. What it most be like to be the daughter of Sean Penn, you childhood and family life spread across the pages of magazines. How did it shape the woman that she is today? She wasn't at all moved.

The hard thing about taking this photograph is removing myself from the picture..shooting into a mirror didnt make it easy.

Lonely shopping cart..

This image follows along the lines of an earlier post to combine my photojournalism with fine art photography.

I was driving home from visiting my parents on Sunday...luckily I had my camera in the car. As I was getting off on the 395 north exit. I saw this parking lot that I have been wanting to check for a possible portrait shoot for a long time. So I decided to go exploring(which sometimes get you in trouble here in DC;)). As I was driving around, I came across this shopping cart resting up along a fence. I use my car's headlights to light up the subject.

Peter Smith

Last week I got a last minute call from one of my art directors saying that she need a portrait of Peter Smith, General Manager of J&G Steakhouse. I only had a few minutes with Mr. Smith, So instead of setting up lights. I was able to use the window light creating a giant softbox.

I still drive a Toyota

Even through all the news about Toyota and sitting through a House hearing. I am still a loyal customer....

Old school

Over the weekend I was working on my office, finally getting it squared away and I came across my old Epson "Multimedia Storage Device," which is basically an external hard drive with a 3.5in screen on it. That could only store about 40-60 gigs of memory on it. Which at the time was amazing when your shooting with a D100 at 6.1 megapixel. You were able to put the Compact flash card right into the device and it would take about 20-30mins to copy a gig worth of memory.

I decided to plug it into my computer and started to look through the images that I saved to it and I used it as a digital portfolio at the same time to show clients. Most of these images are from 2004 to early 2006.

These three images I felt were some of the best images to represent my work when I first graduated college in 2005. I have to ask myself..what is my feeling about these images today. Would I have even taken these images...would they even make the cut by my standards today?