Photoshop

Let's see how beautiful photoshop makes pictures. Looking down at one of my previous posts, we will take a couple of photos, photoshop and post. Photoshop can help add more vividness to the colors in the picture allowing an ordinary photo to pop.

Break

So as most right now, I am looking forward to break, coming quickly and lasting for at least enough time to catch my breath. The last few weeks have been more than hectic, I have not been able to get out and do the photography that I have wanted to do. Although I have three photo shoots set up with different people. One is for a portfolio, and the others are just for fun. Pretty sure about the locations on each, I hate being confined to a studio, oh and natural light is the best on everyone, do not let anyone tell you differently! So I guess for right now I will post up pictures from last spring break...and see if I can be transported there, if only for a minute.

Galleries

So while fooling around on the web I came across some interesting galleries, including this one from the National Portrait Gallery of all the past US Vice Presidents who became President.
And here is the new picture of President Obama that they have on display, if you have the chance I urge you to go and visit this gallery that is overshadowed by the National Galleries of Art and History.

One exhibit that I am looking forward to is Reflections/ Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century. This particular one is going to be about issues of understanding identity in the past century. Included in the exhibition are self portraits by Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney, Chuck Close, Larry Rivers, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold.

Weekend

Love to hate Valentines Day am I right? This year was a so so one I guess. My date and I ended up going to the National American Indian Museum to watch Peruvian Scissor dancers, and eat hoards of chocolate. Then to a curiously funny little book store and onto a wine bar for dinner in Cleveland Park, and after that a Jazz Concert in a place that reminded me of Harlem. The original soul train if you please. It was fun, random, somewhat romantic, not the cab fares...Gotta love D.C. Sadly the pictures of the Peruvian dancers are not yet developed, but I will post as soon as they become available.

A new year, a new blog

So here are a couple of shots from my holiday trips. The settings are Cat Cay, Bahamas; Miami, Florida and various places in the Caribbean.

The first on the left are at a friends house in the Bahamas. The two boys normally twitching with anticipation on the tips of their toes towards everything, finally settled down for about 2.5 seconds for me to photograph them. During the entire holiday the group that I was vacationing with shared my passion for being out on the water and deep sea fishing. So every day we took boats out to the nearest drop off surrounding the islands to find snapper, mahi mahi, tuna and wahu's. The pictures under and beside the pink snappers are of a ship that we found entrenched since WWI. Made of concrete and steel, surrounded by sharks it made for an impressive find.

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." - Diane Arbus

This blog is a collection of my own work, thoughts, critiques on photography. I have been taking pictures since the age of 12 when I received my first camera that my mother handed down to me. A Pentax. Most of the pictures I take are in real life settings. The subjects I choose range from many different sizes shapes and ethnicity, genders, cultures, young and old. Then by placing or capturing them in their natural environment, it is easy to figure out what makes them tick, what their story is.

For now here's a link to some National Geographic pictures. "The Perfect Photo"