Detail - Water Tank and Smart Wash

There’s nothing I love more than discovering the textures, reflections and character of stuff in front of my lens, yeah, even if it’s a product. And, even though I may have trouble remembering faces (just ask my students), I can remember the curves and folds, texture and reflectivity, color and smell of nearly everything I touch or shoot. Hell, I can even tell you about the knots in a piece of wood I worked on 20 years ago.

It might be a progressive disease, I don’t know, but it’s definitely different for still life shooters. We spend years of our lives checking for dust and looking at fine details, studying every little thing in ways most people never do and then shooting it. I clean the chrome on my kitchen sink the same way, as if I was putting it on set. But I may be revealing too much here.

Maybe only art directors, writers and clients can appreciate this behavior.

But, hey, it works for me.