B - Cleaning - Will Yurman, Photojournalist

Following up on my post about Aphotoaday is this other bookmark I found. Will Yurman has been posting A Photo a Day to his website every day. He is a photographer at the Rochester Democrat and Chonicle who has been posting daily and has archives back to 2004.

Posting a photo a day has become a trend with some people, but Yurman's work is inspiring and he has gone beyond the trend phase. To post your work every day for over 6 years takes dedication. I have trouble updating a blog every few days, let alone editing and posting a photo.

On a daily basis he creates and shows images that are pictorial compositions that tell a story, but reach beyond the obvious.


http://www.willyurman.com

Goes in two folders "5 Star Photographer" and "Check Daily"

Palin and a lion tamer showed up to halloween

I set up a few lights to do a photo booth with some friends who came over for Halloween. Needless to say, we had some fun.

This is just a sneak peak. There are a lot more on the way.

Bookmark Cleaning - Beth Rooney

Like I said before these are just bookmarks I collected. I don't remember when or even if I met some of these people (I apologize now for not remembering you!). I am trying to come up for a better headline for this, so if you have any ideas, let me know. "Bookmark Cleaning" sounds very boring.

Beth Rooney has a journalistic style, but appears to still be finding herself. Some of her pictures reach outside of the box while others are more straight forward. She may just be finding herself in her portfolio. She probably could do really good with a tighter edit.

She graduated from Ohio, one of the top PhotoJ schools in the country (Somewhere behind SJSU ;), in 2005.

She starts her portfolio off on the Campaign trail.

Then she tosses a category for food right at the top of a documentary portfolio, a portfolio that uses very little lighting and setup photos. Food photos are usually heavily lit and sculpted for the camera. Just pick up Cooking. I wonder if this may be a passion of hers, but it's nice to see her using natural light really well in these food portraits.

http://www.bethrooney.com

Put under my "3 Star Photographers"

House Cleaning Bookmarks - Trent Parke

On my ToDo list, for many ions has been to organize my web browsers bookmarks. The biggest problem that I have is every time I go to a bookmark I stop to check it out, and then this whole process takes longer than I wanted it to.

I've collected some AMAZING websites! I hope to share this with you as I slowly go through them.

The first up is from Magnum IN Motion. Trent Parke traveled around Australia for two years with his partner Narelle Autio, another amazing photographer, and put together this awesome body of narrated work.

Parke's grainy documentary photos make you feel like you are back in the Farm Bureau days of documentary photography in the U.S. The moments and his style just cry out to you.

His passion and intensity. You really hear it in his voice as he talks through his piece. Much of the photography is just stream of thought. I love it! It makes me want to grab a tent and just go document something!

You can watch it here http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay%5Fmidnight/

Going into my "5 Star Photographer" folder.

OUC Triathlon

Usually I am running in triathlon's (http://chadpiltri.blogspot.com), but the Orlando Sentinel asked me to shoot one. The greatest thing about waking up at the crack of dawn is the morning light. I can't say enough about the gorgeous light.

The start of the race was at a completely different spot than the end, so instead of running with my camera gear or trusting the events shuttle, I actually brought my bike. I shot the beginning of the race and then road the course backwards.

I really tried to show that this was happening in the middle of the city. I also tried to mix a little bit of street photography with an actual event.

Nic Tautiva (below) would of won the race, except for a wrong turn on the bike which disqualified him. This also meant all of the great shots I had of him were taken a notch down. This gave me a reminder for races where the age groups are scattered (Although, there is no easy way to find out who is first in an age group, unless they are the first person across the finish line. If that makes sense)




All of these images are available at http://pa.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000fv68Ce5kC7Q

Green Elephant

Don't know where this green elephant was headed, but I love when I see crazy things like this on the road. I would of followed it, but I was on my way to a Thursday night football game. The game was an hour delayed due to weather.

Orphan works bill needs to be stopped!

Next stop is the house. Email or call your representative and let them know how you feel about it (here).

Congrats Dai!

So my buddy Dai Sugano, a photojournalist at the San Jose Mercury News, just won an Emmy for http://www.mercurynews.com/emmys.

I haven't had a chance to finish watching it, but from what I've seen the story is amazing.

There is a new dilemma that newspapers are going to face. Since newspapers have trained photojournalist to do video and do it well, how long will it be before television starts offering the big money to scoop up the top shooters?

Geekfest 2008!

Did I mention I'm catching up. Geekfest this year stepped away from the shooting and more into the listening. I certainly hope (and I heard many from many others who also hope), that it get's back to it's roots of shooting.

We always seem to find some really cool hotels. The management said they just made this elevator electric recently.






Dinner after listening to Kenny Irby speak.



The photo slam. A poetry slam while a slideshow of photos rolls.










Chip Litherland is so color coordinated!


Michael Williamson is in the same boat we're in.

Where to begin...

I just started this and I'm about a million postings behind already. Creating a business has taken a ton of work and there are a million things I want to talk about, but first I'm going to back up a couple weeks.

Friday, August 15, 2008 - A week and a half before I arrived in California to help my dad move to Arizona. The past five days have been non-stop unpacking of boxes. We only stopped to eat and watch the Olympics before going to bed.

I finally took a break and took up an offer from James Gregg, an amazing photographer who works for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, on a trip to Mexico. I had grown up in California, but in 20+ years I had never ventured over the border. I love new things and I love adventures, and this was both. James kept asking me what I wanted to see, but everything was new to me and in a world of new, everything is interesting.

We started out touring around the Arizona side of the border. James showed me the wall that has been so much a part of the news. He said that rocks are constantly thrown at the border patrol over this thing. Drugs are also tossed over.





Flooding has become a major problem because the grates in the wall are so thin that debris gets caught and then the water backs up. It has caused whole streets on the Mexican side of the border to be under water. Through this hole in the middle of the street you can see where the water flows underground. This is some of the water that floods into the streets. I find it crazy that there are just giant holes in the street. I wonder if cars ever end up in these?

This is one of the guys trying to fix the flooding. They are putting pipes underground to reroute the water. Unfortunately they don't have certain pipes they need, such as corner pipes, so they are having to be creative. They are laying down rocks and concrete to turn the water.

James making some of his own shots.

I can't wait to go back to Nogales and shoot some more. I was so overwhelmed this first time.




We had planned to get to Nogales around noon and eat lunch. Unfortunately time flew buy and it was about 3p before we ate. We were starving. James knows his way around Nogales. We cut through this little bar to find an amazing restaurant on the other side.


I had never heard of a Mexican dish called brochette, so I tried it. This is Pollo Brochette w/coconut and it was amazing!

This is a bar in the restaurant we ate at.



And while we were eating, they decided to pull the curtains. I definitely have to go back to this place. This is going on my places to remember for portrait shoots!


Oh, and the on there thing. The restaurant is built into the side of a mountain!


More gorgeous light...


Even the bathroom was cool!


We did a little more wandering after lunch.
Back in Arizona we had a chance to see the Border Patrol and their pups at work!


Thanks James, the trip was amazing. I hope to be back soon for round two!