2 Protests in 1 Day (Part 1)
While we had decided to meet some friends at Eastern Market in downtown DC, we heard that there was going to be an anti-war protest at the White House and I thought it would be a great opportunity for some photos. I was correct. Ralph Nader spoke while a pretty diverse group of people protested [...]
The lone sailor.
My dad wanted me to get a few shots of this statue for him so here’s one of the better ones:
Day 4 = Awesome
So, today was the fourth day of my photo-a-day project and I was offered a job which is pretty much the best thing that could have happened (aside from discovering a super/mutant power like the ability to change the color of any object with my mind). So my photo today was going to be a [...]
I was better today; I was more conventional today.
I was caught off guard today when, at a job interview, I was both praised for my photography website and labeled an iconoclast (which is probably pretty accurate) for my recent “Jesus cuts his apples with a lightsaber” photo. I was both amused and mortified. Fortunately, my interviewer was not offended and seemed to have [...]
Charles Franklin
I recently answered a Craigslist ad of a local artist seeking a photographer to do some shots of him for a book he’s working on. It was an unpaid gig, though in exchange for my services I will get my name in the book and he will be giving me a custom piece of art [...]
The Prettiest Girl I Know
This is my new favorite. I took it at the butterfly show a couple of months ago, one of the first chances I had to try out my new camera, and I wasn’t satisfied with it until I made it black and white, at which point the true beauty of her eye really showed itself.
Leon, "The Jesus Guy"
Leon has been standing at a major intersection in Richmond for months now, holding a sign warning of the second coming of Christ. He stands there all day with his sign secured firmly in a flag holder, working the traffic lights in hopes of saving some helpless souls. At first I simply scoffed at him, [...]