is it really "street" if you're indoors?

this weekend at unique la:

elevator shoot.



love this guy's art - check it out here and buy something!



shooting street in the city

trying to get my street photography feet wet in NYC ... various locations including: brooklyn bridge, chinatown, ppe tradeshow, highline, occupy wall street:


no photos - tradeshow






chinatown smoker





mott and canal - chinatown






chinatown seat








brooklyn bridge mickey





taking a break - columbus circle





outlaw bobby steele - occupy wall street




peace dude - occupy wall street




highline salesman


the whole new york flickr batch is here NYC

S'up?

Saturday in Belmont Shores

workshop

I participated in a street photography workshop last weekend (Oct 15 + 16) that was awesome. Eric Kim's beginning street photography workshop. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in street photography. The workshop is very comprehensive. There were discussions, power point presentations, documentaries, critics and, of course, shooting in the street. My main reason for signing up for the workshop was to help me with my discomfort (fear) of shooting strangers in the streets. Eric addresses these fears and helps to make you more comfortable with the process. I am still uncomfortable shooting, but I have a lot more confidence now, than I did before I took the workshop.

Other great things about the workshop are the people involved. Eric is very knowledgeable and sharing, friendly and talented. Rinzi, a former student of Eric’s, now helping with the workshops was awesome. He is super friendly and ready to help, listen and teach. And let’s not forget the fellow workshop participants. All super talented photographers. All showed great work at the workshop. All friendly and eager to learn, eager to share knowledge, eager to support the photography community. Check out some of the images from the workshop here.

I’m looking forward to taking another workshop with Eric and I hope some of my new friends will do so too … not because they need it, but because I’d like to hang out with them again!

I'm pretty happy with 8 - 10 shots from the weekend but i'm trying to take Eric's advice and only show my best work. My best 3. editting, editting, editting ... Below are 3 and link to the rest. I can't help it. I need to purge. If any of my fellow workshop attendees happen to see this blog, here are 3 that I didn't show in class ... 2 of them were shot on Sunday ...


gotcha




the artist




piggyback



here's the link to the rest of the shots

really, there's no 's'?

i love the tri-tip sandwiches at cold spring tavern (i always thought it was cold springs tavern). who knew that the sunday tri-tip sandwich bbq was also available on saturday? we didn't, but we found out.



the sign



  



bare feet

 the couple pictured above was at cold spring tavern last saturday (10/1). they were both barefoot and both retreating to their car in the parking lot to refill their beverages with booze they had in a cooler ... they were just at the tavern enjoying the music and the picnic bench ... what'd they have in the cooler you ask? mike's hard lemonade.

click the link for more pix from santa barbara

riverfront park, spokane, washington and my 100th post

this post should be called "experimenting with shutter speed" or "these give me a headache."



this is my fav




carosel trails




airplane ride




clown cars




dragon ride




blue bench



strangers.

photographers call it "street photography," i call it uncomfortable. the idea is, you walk around with your camera and take pictures of people. strangers. sometimes they see you taking their picture and sometimes they don't. i really want to take pictures like this, but its pretty intimidating. recently the weave and i took a photo class that brought us downtown to chinatown. i felt safer shooting pictures of strangers being with a group ... i could always use the excuse "oh, sorry, we're with a photo class ..."

so, here's my first attempt at "street photography." i really like some of them ... i guess i shouldn't post the others, but ...




train station




couple on bench



she caught me taking her picture - look at her eye



girl on phone - my fav




this kid was karate chopping his friends




love this guy




i think he caught me ...




palm reader



sun block