Category Archives: Something

Compelling, provocative, and emotional self portraits of the woman in the lower left of the frame.

Visit Jen’s website.

Practice makes perfect.

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I’ve been looking through a ton of older photos trying to pick out a selection for an upcoming installation I’ll be calling “Faces,” when I came across this photo. Whenever I take group photos at weddings, I nearly always take several in quick succession to make sure that I get one where none of the people are blinking. This was one of the photos where one of the bridesmaids blinked, but a little selective cropping, and a whole new photo emerges.

To purchase limited edition prints of other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Northbridge, Massachusetts

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

About ten years ago, I had the opportunity to see a gallery of Steve McCurry photographs at a local high school, and there is always something special about seeing a real photographic print of an image seen countless times in magazines and televisions. The photo of the Afghan Girl is National Geographic’s most recognizable photo, making the June 1985 cover. Responding in a recent interview to the question of why this particular image has become so famous, McCurry says:

I think it’s a combination of several things. First of all she’s a very beautiful little girl. I think there’s an ambiguity, a mystery about her expression. I think there’s a kind of haunted, troubled quality on one level, but there’s also fortitude, perseverance, respect, and pride to her look. It’s clear that she’s poor. She has this torn shawl. But with her poverty she has this dignity.

Despite the fact that nearly everyone in the western world has seen this portrait, Steve McCurry is no one-hit wonder, so be sure to visit McCurry’s website.

So pretty and peaceful, it makes me wish that winter would never end!

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

Mom and pop amusement parks are getting harder and harder to find, but Kiddieland, located outside of Chicago, still remains. Details like the clown musicians pictured here make the current trips with my own children a nostalgic trip back to my own childhood memories of this place.

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

The name given to yet another one of my hard drives, Greenfield, marks another favorite photographer. If memory serves, the above image was the first of hers that I remember seeing because it was used in a watch advertising campaign to represent precision. None of her photographs are digitally manipulated. They are always of real dancers frozen in one particular moment in time.

Visit Lois Greenfield’s website.

A favorite from one of the 2007 portrait sessions from Greendale Dance Academy.

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

The cold spell continues, but at least the days are getting longer.

To purchase limited edition prints of this and other photographs in the “Something…” series, visit the gallery.

Each day of 2008, Canadian photographer Larry Strung took a new portrait of someone in his current hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. When I worked on my own Day in the Life project in 2006, besides gaining a greater appreciation for the Worcester area, I got to meet so many people that I never would have otherwise. I admire Larry’s portraits and especially the many new connections he surely made throughout what I know was at the same time both a grueling and a fulfilling year.

Visit the Hamilton365 website or Larry’s general photography website.