Inman Park Festival, 2015

  Inman Park, Atlanta Digital, Ricoh GR   From Acrobatics to Runaway Attaches Finding good street photography opportunities in Atlanta isn’t difficult around our city’s parades and festivals, but the Inman Park Fest is one of the largest, most diverse in terms of costumes, art and a variety of sights and sounds, which lends itself to a unique…

How Art Rolls: Things Sometimes Look The Same – Until They Don’t

High Museum of Art, Atlanta March, 2015 Yashica Mat 124   The thing about life that I have found is that sometimes it feels like nothing’s changing. You wait, you hope, you push, but the truth is, no one can force change. I used to be a “make it happen” kind of person instead of…

Color Street Photography Around The Earl With 35mm Fuji Superia

  The Earl is not only what I’d consider the king of East Atlanta’s music hot spots with a tasty, affordable bar menu, but it’s also to me, the most colorful and laid back bars in the city where anyone can just hang out and be his or herself. So this why I chose The Earl to sit down one…

Are You Sick With Envy?

I’ve seen a bit of this going around creative streams lately, so today, I want to expose a painful, closeted emotion that we can all relate to: Envy. The envy I write about here is sometimes spurred by others’ success or sometimes spurred by engaging in “just a little healthy competition”. Yet, regardless of whether…

Project Parallel: Global Street Scenes Through Reflections

Some of us are keenly aware of others who come into our physical space, while some of us rarely pay attention to our surroundings or the people around us. How aware are you of passersby and how often do you immediately create a story about them? In a parallel universe, what if you had a…

Winter in Blue Ridge at 100 Speed

Experimenting with 100 speed film in Black and White and 100 ASA in digital color. Digital photographers generally don’t like too much grain in their digital shots, but I found it to be an interesting look that at least taught me a little more about using different speeds across two mediums using an 80mm lens…

Urban Zone System in Decatur

Yashica Mat, Medium Format Film January, 2015 Decatur, GA   Urban Zone System in Decatur: Pairs of scans from the Atlanta Street Photography Group‘s walkabout in Decatur, Georgia and re-embracing the challenge of film photography. In 2009 I began taking an interest in film photography and fell madly in love. I had signed up for 2 sets…

Travelling: A Metaphor For Life, Art & Goals

All images shot with a iPhone 5s Italian Riviera, August 25, 2014.   An embryo doesn’t have to try to become a baby, and an acorn doesn’t have to set a goal to become an oak tree. – Marianne Williamson I have heard it said so many times, “Decide what you want and make it…

A Saturday Through The Lens

Yashica Mat, TTL medium format film. Candler Park & Little Five Points, Atlanta.    Joining With and Separating From Others 8 film scans to tell a 1 minute story on how we join and separate in public. This and Street Scenes Through Reflections form part of a budding project still taking shape.  

“It’s Not All About The Camera”, Says My Camera

I’m starting off the year shooting film – and with of course, a focus on street photography. For the below exercise, I selected 8 pairs of film scans – shots from The High Museum and Piedmont Park outings with my Atlanta Street Photography Group. Each pair was shot within three minutes in time after changing exposure settings on my 1977 Minolta Hi-Matic…