Polaroid Fever

Last night's spontaneous shoot with SKINNY INTERN was the jolt that I needed for the year ahead of me. I've been wanting to slow down and reorganize my structure as a photographer. I wanted to go back to shooting with medium format film for sometime now, but have not found anyone "worthy" of "film". It takes a new level of patience and focus for me as a photographer, and the same goes as well as the model. I never was the type of photographer who likes to click "just to" do it or to move the model. If I can do a shoot with with just 3 rolls of 120 film (1 roll per look), I'll do it, but the model needs to show me that she's giving me 100% or more. I need to better my craft, my precision, my control of lighting, composition and more important, my direction as a photographer. I don't need 1000 images from a photoshoot to go to the trash bin. What does it say about me as a photographer? Do I get lucky with my shots, or did I make it happen? I would like to say, "that I envisioned the shot and that I created the environment, mood, lighting, etc, and with the click of my camera and the help of a talented model, I CAPTURED THE MOMENT"

There will only be one ORIGINAL. Long live film and polaroids......

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

The inspiration never stops. A classic duo. I love their cross processing and high saturation in their images. Their photos just seem to pop.

Steven Meisel - Photographer

"One of the reasons the world has been slow to recognize his contributions is that he is an absolute chameleon," says Charlotte Cotton, the photography curator of the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art. Cotton, who considers Meisel the commercial photographer of our time, says he belongs in the pantheon of image-makers with Avedon, Penn, and Newton. "It's a remarkably risky position to take."

As I think of the photographer I would like to be like in the year of 2009, I think of Meisel as one of favorites. I have not been doing serious fashion photography for long (last January 2008), but as I develop a style or lack of it, I still need to look up to other photographers for inspiration and goal set my career in the world of fashion. Meisel's many different styles is what I would like to become. I don't want to be fixed to just one style or look. I want change and hopefully my next shoot will change it all. I "NEED" a MUSE.

Kiss from a Rose

[4:33 a.m.] Third night in New York, and a cold 47 degrees fahrenheit. This will be my last cold spell for spring 2009. I will be headed back to South Florida tomorrow evening and have nothing but humid 85 degree weather to deal with. Disappointing. I will miss New York for it's beauty and song. The lights, the obnoxious taxi horns, the art and artists, and the sounds of" SEAL's - KISS FROM A ROSE" in the subway on the L Train back to the East Village. Where else can you be in the U.S. and find someone serenading people on a train ride in a subway station? It was simply magical. I will miss everything about New York. I will have to make it back again in June for the LEBOOK - CONNECTIONS event. It will be my first time at the annual event and look forward to meeting hundreds of others with similar interest as mine in regards to photography. Hopefully I can continue to build my book before than and come back with something worth showing. I have less than 2 months, and little to no sleep in-between. Wish me luck. I need it if I ever want to make it in New York.

Good night New York. You will be missed.