Addendum – October 27, 2009 – Calumet Photo selected this image as a Photo of the Week. Nice start. I built a patio over the summer with Vicki. With the help of Tim and a neighborhood kid, we moved the six thousand pounds of sand, gravel and pavers by hand that had been dropped on the [...]
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Food, NYC, Organic, Personal Photography, Shooting from the Hip, Slow Food, slow food, Union Square, Vegetables
Shooting from the Hip #21
When fresh flowers, or any fresh fruit or vegetables for that matter, are placed into a clear plastic container or bag, they continue to breathe. They exhale carbon dioxide, creating condensation, vapor and water, becoming the artist’s thumb, smearing and distorting the under painting. This isn’t the first time I’ve photographed edible flowers in boxes; [...]
Greenmarket in the Studio #4A
As always, there are many ways to skin a cat (bad metaphor – I have two cats), or should I say capture a bean. If there is any one piece of advice I can give about shooting in the studio, it’s don’t quit when you think you’ve got the shot. Hey, it’s digital. It’s not [...]
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Shooting from the Hip #19
In a couple of days it’s back to business, having wrapped and packed and loaded up and moved and unloaded and unwrapped and unpacked and then moved some stuff home after moving it to the new studio ’cause it didn’t fit (<looks like a run on sentence, doesn’t it?). The September email promotions and postcards [...]
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Shooting from the Hip #18 (while moving an entire studio)
Done. I’ve moved in to the new studio. Six trips in Vicki’s Suburu Legacy station wagon with Vicki at the wheel. Without my girlfriend as driver and watchdog, not only would I still be moving, I’d probably have been to the tow pound on 12th Avenue as part of the deal. After all, who was [...]
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Shooting from the Hip (and from Outer Space) #17
What do Savoy Cabbage from Union Square Market and a Satellite image from NASA have in common? Benoît Mandelbrot’s mathmatical Fractals. In the mid 1980s Jonathan Herbert and I were creative partners, owning one of the first IBM XT computers and diving head-first into pretty uncharted territory for photography at the time: computer generated graphics [...]
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Shooting from the Hip #13
Union Square Market – 2:57PM August 17, 2009 These purple and green long beans are also known as (according to Wikipedia, anyway) long-podded cowpeas. This is the first year I remember seeing them at the market and when I looked them up, I found that they are grown in warmer climates like Thailand and Southern [...]
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Shooting from the Hip #12
2:06PM June 24, 2009 – Union Square Market, NYC Rich, dramatic and mysterious, garlic has been used as far back as ancient Egypt for medical and culinary purposes . Vampires don’t like garlic, but I do.
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Shooting from the Hip #11
Union Square Market, NYC – 1:37PM, August 7, 2009 Edamame, or baby soybeans, are just about my absolute favorite quick appetizer. Cook for three minutes in salted boiling water, strain, sprinkle with coarse sea salt and eat. Yes, they look hairy and blemished, but like most real farm grown fruits and vegetables, they taste good. [...]
Shooting from the Hip #10
Union Square Market – 1:58PM 07/31/2009 These baby oriental eggplants had a painterly quality to them. This image reminded me of details I’ve seen in 17th century Dutch still life paintings, complete with sexual overtones… Am I pushing the Dutch thing too far?
