A Sense of Place
Hi from Joe….please consider today’s blog an invitation to visit Scott Kelby’s blog….. I did a story once on Korean green grocers in NYC. Running a produce shop in New York is a tough, 24 hour a day job. To make sure the story got off to a good start, I of course needed a...
Scenes from A Show
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCoNwnkmdo We set up the show on Tuesday night. When you need to get something done, it’s always good to have FDNY on your side. Louie Cacchioli rallied the guys, and over 25 firefighters showed up and worked tirelessly from 9pm through till 3am to get this in place for the Wednesday opening press reception....
Not Just Your Average Joe
From the Faces of Ground Zero Project Joe Hodges, Ladder 6, FDNY, 2001 On medical leave, Hodges was undergoing a stress test at a doctor’s office in Staten Island when the attacks occurred. A 20-year veteran of the DNY, he is eligible to retire but has no plans to do so anytime soon. “I pulled...
Greetings from Soufriere…
Garvey’s hands, with the duty board of the Soufriere Fire Station. Been coming to St. Lucia for almost 18 years, now, ever since Travel Holiday magazine sent me to paradise in 1994 to shoot a leafy place called Anse Chastanet. I have been here maybe a dozen times since then, and have dear friends on...
Ten Years On…..
Bill Butler was with Josephine Harris and five other members of Ladder 6, inside the North Tower of WTC when it came down. They resolutely stuck with Josephine, refusing to leave her, despite her painfully slow rate of descent. Bill half carried her, cajoling her all the way about seeing her grandchildren again. The building...
Correction…:-)
Earnie Grafton, who as I mentioned the other day is a long time bud, former military shooter, and currently a staffer at the San Diego Trib, made an, uh, adjustment on my soft box the other day. Earnie! It’s spelled “numnuts!” One of the reasons to hang in this business as long as I have...
Circa Early Launches….
Okay, so here’s a picture blast from the past…. Following on from last week, Hank Morgan sent me a snap of the two of us, prepping for launch, with the VAB in the background. We used everything, as you can see. When you put 20 remotes in the swamp, you get skinny on long glass,...
Notes…..
From the weekend…Maggie was indeed a beautiful bride. Pinned to her dress were her granmother and grandfather’s rings….
New week…tomorrow, Tampa! Gridding it! Details here. Another season of the Grid is kicking off!
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Maggie and Pictures Past….
One of the best things about being a shooter, and, sorry young photogs, you have to wait for this particular delight–is getting older. Reason being is that you accumulate. Throughout all the travails and disappointments, the blown jobs, the missed calls, the times you zigged when you shoulda zagged, the broken pixels, the random attaboys,...
Update from the City
Work is pretty crazy right now. We are shooting in the field, catching up with folks from the original Giant Polaroid project of nearly 10 years ago. It’s hectic, but rewarding. There’s a wellspring in these people of good feeling and the power of optimism. There’s also the vibrancy of life in the big city,...
Lord of the Skies
Those pearly blue, magnificent skies of post production, that is. Russell Brown…genius, bon vivant, humorist, master of disguise, thespian, uh, animated photo subject, genius, photog, inventor, genius, software guru, good guy, and finally, truly, genius….. Ten flashes (you can tell, some of them are in the picture), 45 minutes, SU-4 mode, manual exposure at 250th...
George, Seattle, and the Clouds
Had breakfast and coffee with George Divoky yesterday. Breakfast was the smaller part of it, actually. What we really did was have coffee together, which is what you do in Seattle. It is basically a sacrament here, the having of the coffee. George and I grew to be friends, really, over coffee. George is an...
