Swing Girls

Found this one while out cruising around before an assignment.

Tough Businessmen and a Crybaby

Newspapery - Fire & Ice

As promised my friends, I'm going to start posting more images from my internship here in the midwest. They're much different from the things I normally shoot but different is a good thing sometimes.

What I Shot On My Days Off...

I think for a change in the next couple of days I'm doing to start posting pictures from my assignments from my internship that I like instead of what I'm used to posting. But for now more of the same.

More Wandering and Wondering...

I don't know why I shoot like this. I love doing it and the several hours that fly by feel like nothing to me. Most don't really tell a story and there are no real "moments" to most of them like I was taught to look for while in school. I just like the way they feel.

When I have had portfolio reviews in the past from some of the photographers I really look up to, I kept a tally of my photos that they liked most and are ones like I posted below. But they all said the same thing and that was roughly, "you have to figure out how to still shoot like this and still have something meaningful to say."

I think Richard Koci-Hernandez said that most of our favorite pictures come from the times when we were just shooting for ourselves or just having fun after getting our safe shot during an assignment. He said it's because we are not worried about failing when we shoot like this, we just shoot and don't worry. I know that at my internship I am so afraid of failing a lot of the time that by the time I think I got the safe one, it's time to go.

My question is when I finally figure it out (shoot the way I like and have it tell a story at the same time) will there be any place left out there that will be willing to give me a job? It's a scary, scary job market out there for journalists of all kinds.

Enough of my whining. Here are some f-ing photos.

Fishing and Smoking

Here's one from another photo column that I did for the Northwest Herald. Chris Muskala and his sons (background) originally from Poland and have recently moved to the Chicago burbs. He was enjoying his pipe while his sons were getting their lines in the water.