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NO DRAMA PLEASE
Yes, I collect vinyl. Going to record stores and flipping through LPs helps me relax from the jealousy, pettiness and drama that can sometimes confront me in my line of work. It’s a chance to unplug from digital distractions and feed my soul. When life’s not fair, I try to solve problems, not make them.
Here I am recently at my favorite store in Seattle, Easy Street Records. Fantastic selection. Great service. Pub food in house. Go upstairs for the collectible section. Jive Time is also recommended. Good Stuff!
(Photo: Andrea Wells)
MISSING DIANE KEATON
Quirky but irresistible. An actress and photographer, among other things, Diane was a funny, adorable iconoclast who earned my respect. She was an exemplary example for independent women everywhere with her bold ideas, leading fashion sense, and choice in films that she was a part of. She will be missed.
(Self portrait: Diane Keaton)
PCA PARADE ISSUE COVER!
My sincere thanks to the team at Porsche Club of America for all I was gifted with this month, including the cover of Panorama Magazine, two features of images, and the majority of the Parade photo coverage. David Mathews was the writer I teamed up with on many of these pieces, and he did a masterful job. Check out the October issue!
My best regards to the PCA Executive Council, Rob Sass, Richard Baron, Jeff Majeske, Margaret Kelly, and Emma Smith for their generous support!
THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE ON A HARD ASSIGNMENT
People sometimes ask me, what’s it like being an in demand car photographer that’s always on deadline.
Well, it helps if you keep hydrated, eat a Mediterranean diet, exercise, and have an occupational therapy massage every two weeks. Continue reading “”
A BUSY TIME OF THE YEAR
In the life of an automotive photographer and writer, there is always something to do. Much of it has to do with running a business: contacting clients and car collectors, sending estimates, and planning for the next assignment. Yet, the best part of my job remains the creative side: making photographs and writing.
When I’m not on deadline, I have a chance to do the creative part for myself. Fall is always a great time of the year for that, even if I tend to be busy with tying up summer projects. This year, I plan on traveling from my base in Seattle to the Columbia River Gorge. That’s where I can be free to make landscape images that are both abstract and informative. Fall color will be peaking there soon. Check it out!
LOVE NOT HATE
There is love and there is fear. Fear spawns hate in those who choose it. Choose love instead.
Everything else is just opinion. So far, that’s still legal to voice in the USA, depending on who you talk to. I find it better to say nothing, because you never know who’s listening.
THIS JUST IN
THE PARADOX OF CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS
1. Creative individuals often possess an unusual amount physical energy, yet they also value stillness and quiet reflection. They can spend hours in quiet contemplation, waiting for the right moment for creativity to arrive.
2. They tend to be intellectually sharp while maintaining a sense of childlike wonder, seeing the world in a way most people don’t. Continue reading “”
THE INTENTIONAL ARTIST
This just in from Chris Davies.
The practice of the intentional artist.
So what does it look like to take small, intentional steps toward meaningful change in a world designed for instant gratification that never creates and sustains lasting transformation?
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GARY EMORY HAS PASSED
It is with a deep sense of loss that I report Gary Emory of Emory Motorsports, “The Original Porsche Outlaw”, has passed. No one came close to his influence on the hobby of hot rodding 356s and early 911s.
WHERE TO NOW ST. PETER
An Elton John tune from his best album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, Tumbleweed Connection, is not a bad thing to spin on original UK vinyl.
St. Peter’s in Rome is a must visit. Besides Michaelangelo’s Pieta, there’s the Vatican ceiling he painted. It’s basically a shrine to great art. Continue reading “”
PHOTOGRAPHY ADVICE I’VE COME ACROSS LATELY
Most photo advice I see is overly simplified and often wrong. These posts from writer Alex Cooke at Fstoppers are worth reading if you are interested in becoming a better photographer in today’s world.
Mindfulness and walking meditation in photography
And now some hard truths from Cooke:
Ten brutal truths about amateur photography
10 ways social media destroyed photography
Want to make photography a business, but don’t have a trust fund?
5 fatal photography business mistakes
(Illustration: Author Unknown)
SING A SONG FOR DEPRESSED ANGELS FALLING FROM ABOVE
“I won’t retire, but I might retread. Seems like that guy singin’ this song been doing it for a long time. Is there anything he knows that he ain’t said?
Sing a song for Freedom. Sing a song for Love. Sing a song for depressed angels falling from above.”
When it comes to folk-rock music, something I’ve been into for most of my life, Neil is still tops in my book, especially on Classic Records vinyl. He’s been saying it since the ’60s. Here’s one from 2002. Spin it with a little love and affection in every thing you do…
IT’S WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY WEEK
Make a photograph that’s surprising. One you haven’t seen before. That’s the challenge to give yourself every day. Just don’t be this guy.
Next week, a look at today’s “photography”.
DEEDS, NOT WORDS
I’m a pragmatist at heart with a penchant for aphorisms, but even I know that a worthy man dedicates himself to service to remind himself that there are other things more important than his own selfishness. Forget the farcical hypocrisy you see on TV. It’s my belief that good deeds are best done the first time you think of them.
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY MOM!
Congrats to my mother for her remarkable achievement after a life of challenges, including the death of her mother in Estonia when she was very young, losing her father to the Russians at the beginning of WWII, being bombed while a prisoner of war working at a German hospital, learning English and adapting to a small fishing village in Alaska, working in a cannery, raising us kids, and a life that revolved around my dad, a commercial fisherman from Colorado who was often absent. You made it!
(Photo:Andrea Wells)
R.I.P JOHN PREGNALL
An old friend of mine and my high school friends passed away today. My condolences to all.
I hope this tune by George Harrison from 1970 (around the time John and I became good friends) is appropriate.