Excerpt: A Quote Worth Sharing

In the weekly guest blog on Scott Kelby's blog, Jay Maisel, speaks of a student he once taught during a workshop.

"In one of the first workshops here at the bank building I had a student named Al Vinjamur. He brought in some amazing pictures at the outset. At the end of the class he said to me – “I’ve gone swimming with sharks and alligators, crept up on grizzly bears and risked everything for photos, but I’ve never been as profoundly uncomfortable and scared until I took your class and you made me shoot people – thanks.” "

For portrait photographers this is nothing short of profound. Capturing, truly, a person in a single moment can be entirely unnerving. It is one of the concepts i love the most about photography. Life is naturally a video, thousands of fleeting moments passing on to thousands more. Its when a single crucial singular moment is captured that you really start to SEE what's happening inside a person.

Tuppins for sale!

i mean houses. err...house.

My sister and her husband have been trying to sell their house for quite some time and it looks like its their lucky day. After some vicious hand to hand combat countering from both parties, they have struck an accord.

They will be moving here

Just kidding. They have their eyes on a really cute little neighborhood just up the road from where they are now and they plan on building a new house there.

Hooray!

2007 Pullitzer Prize Winner - Renee C. Byer

Just came across this again while going through some old bookmarks. A seriously moving photojournalistic story.

The written story.

The resulting charity foundation.

Calvin and Hobbes is Fight Club's Precursor?

Read me

Except for the conclusion which is wallowing in an overbearing "this world is cruel, get used to it" attitude, this interesting little comparison makes way to much sense. From my point of view, Bill Watterson is clearly a more talented writer/storyteller than Chuck Palahniuk, thus proving the basic concept of Fight Club was ripped from one of the best stories of recent time.

Did i mention i almost cried when the great Mr. Watterson announced his retirement from the Calvin and Hobbes comic?

Hope for the Silliest of Us.

a story proving that garden dancing can lead to international fame. i know you've all been wondering.





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