Author: Randy Wells

ANOTHER PCA COVER!

Porsche Club of America’s national magazine Panorama has chosen a photo I made of an Aubergine RSR tribute in Oklahoma City for their latest cover. Thanks to editor-in-chief Rob Sass for selecting this to accompany the feature he wrote on this car. Creative Director Richard Baron pitched the choice and did the amazing design and layout of the images for this year’s Color Issue. Thanks to everyone at PCA for your support!

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TESLA PULLS THE PLUG ON CYBERTRUCK

This just in: “Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck, marking the end of a failed effort to take a chunk of the lucrative market for pickups in the US. He said production of the car would stop around the middle of next year at the company’s factory in Texas in order to use the plant for the Cybercab, its self-driving taxi.”

I could never make that thing look good, so I never photographed it. Can’t wait to see their taxi…

(Illustrator: Unknown)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

It was another wonderful tech session this past weekend at my local Porsche Club of America region’s autumn get-together. Seeing old friends and an old race car like Wade Carter’s Porsche 934.5 is always a treat. Thanks to all for your continued support in our automotive enthusiast community.

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GETTY IMAGES GOES TO THE DARK SIDE

The NY Stock Exchange has removed Getty Images from public trading after the once lucrative photo agency filed for bankruptcy this week.

I feel fortunate to have traveled the world photographing during the rise of stock photography in the ’80s and ’90s. It started when I joined the Seattle stock photo agency named AllStock in 1984. They later merged with Tony Stone Images, which was sold to Getty in the mid-’90s. Around the same time I also joined Sharpshooters, a boutique commercial stock photo house out of Florida. Continue reading “”

ANOTHER AUDIOPHILE VINYL REVIEW – JONI MITCHELL’S BLUE

Joni Mitchell has been a favorite musical artist of mine for most of my life. It was an honor to recently write a music review of a brand new LP reissue of Mitchell’s legendary 1971 album Blue.

The assignment for Tracking Angle was to compare the new vinyl from Warner Brothers/Rhino Hi Fidelity to original pressings and other well-regarded subsequent remasterings. Fortunately, I had the creative freedom to include the back story on how this archetype of confessional singer/songwriters was made. Check it out!

Tracking Angle Review

(Photo: Joel Bernstein circa 1970)

OUT OF THIS WORLD

That’s what an increasing number of unbelievably amazing looking new images you see today are. They are made up, not of this world. They never existed on earth. I’d call them photographs, but they’re not, since there is no actual light being used to create them (photo = light).

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BELIEVING IS SEEING

Just back from a relaxing week on the water. A time for reflection and gratitude.

Thanks to all my friends and clients for your support. The assignments have been amazing and my personal projects have kept me busy when I’m not on the road. After some introspection I’m now open to work that includes being a personal photographer for large car collections and travel events.

HONORED TO HAVE MY PHOTOS IN OCTANE MAGAZINE

In issue 280 of Octane magazine is a feature on Jon Shirley, the guiding light of Microsoft, noted art and car collector and double Pebble Beach concours winner. Being local to and a colleague of Jon’s, I was fortunate to have been selected for photographing him and his car collection as part of an interview in this prestigious UK publication.

Jon Shirley Article

It’s not the 1950s anymore. Today, over 17% of the world’s population suffers from social media addiction. They are 2-3 times more likely to think about suicide. Gen Z is most at risk, those born between 1997 and 2002. Please be aware.

JAY MAISEL R.I.P.

It’s been announced that the remaining original giant of color photography, Jay Maisel, has passed away at 95. His sense of light, gesture, and color were a goal for many of us who started shooting seriously in the mid ’70s. He joined fellow pioneers Ernst Haas and Pete Turner in what many consider to be the holy trinity of early color photographers. Jay was a very influential and an inspirational legend. RIP

In addition to his corporate, editorial and fine art work, check out all the jazz covers Jay shot, including the seminal Kind Of Blue Mile Davis portrait.

(Photo of Jay by his and my friend Arthur Meyerson)

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WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY

World Photography Day is celebrated every year on August 19. It marks the date in 1839 when the French government bought the patent for the daguerreotype process—the first practical way to take permanent photos—and gave it free to the world.

Photo: “Found scene” made while on a car assignment recently. Never stop shooting for your self.

LIFE’S TOO SHORT

There are two things one should never waste time on: things that don’t matter and people who think that you don’t matter.

Work’s for me.

(P.S. Trompe l’œil (pronounced tromp loy) is a French art technique that means “deceive the eye”, similar idea to another name.)

COVER FEATURE IN CANADA

Thanks to Vicarious Magazine for choosing my image of Porsches on the “Tail of the Dragon” in Tennessee for the cover of their current issue. See my travel destination story with more photos inside!