Marlowe

I took this photograph of Marlowe on Friday, September 25. He is my fiancés nephew. 

Technically, what I like about this photograph, beyond the catch lights is that I got eye level to Marlowe. I think that photographing children from their perspective is the best way because it doesn't demean them like a shot from above might. 

Liberty Vintage and The Caterpillar

Tonight I went to hear music at the caterpillar, a small stage with benches near Frankford and York Street. There I met Adam Cramer (below) working at Liberty Vintage Motorcycle Repair. He was attaching a sidecar to a motorcycle. A little later, when I was about to leave, I watched him drive down the street with it. It worked.  

I like this shot, just wish I'd been a little wider with it. 
This is Will Hannan. He was playing with his band tonight. His voice reminded me of Marc Bolan's. I was shooting from the hip for all of these shots at 1600 ISO.
Framing. 

Nockamixon Community Day

Saturday, September 19th, was Nockamixon Township community day at Bucks County Horse Park. Hooray for bi-planes. Aesthetically speaking, I wish there were some clouds up there.  Journalistically speaking: hooray (in an objective voice) for bi-planes. 
Yes, this was cropped. But is cutting out blue "lying by omission"? No, I think i'll be okay. 

Ali Baba (left) had just got done challenging this boy to a hula-hoop off. I think Baba won this one (although he was getting beat by a lot of the girls) but they had no hard feelings in the end. 

I like the blue on blue mojo here. 

Mood

My little sister Rachel and her best bud Tiffany came home late tonight. They are in my sisters room. I like the mood. 

Billy and Family

Tonight was a family dinner at the Richlandtown Inn. We are a loud bunch who has a lot of fun generally.  The light was incredibly dim in the restaurant so it was hard to make pictures without stooping to the pop up flash. I didn't, but the journalist in me didn't really ask people to pose... so I ended up with a few blurry faces (we move around a lot),  but I like this shot a lot for its content... not for it's grainy, dark quality.

Tonight I met Billy. He came with his mom, Vanessa and my cousin Travis. Billy is three years old and was playing with an iphone for a minute in the corner before it got taken away before a possibly expensive phone call was made. This was actually a harder photo to make. I had to pump my ISO to 1600. I was at F3.5 and shooting 1/8 of a second. I leaned against the wall and held my breath.  

Nature

I was on my parents farm today. I love being in the woods again. 

I like the shallow depth of field here. 

Library

I took these pictures today in the library on Temple's campus. I was playing with lines. 

I chased this man down after I took the shot to tell him I took his photo and ask for his name. He was seemed offended that I took his photo and didn't want to me have his name. 

I like lines and reflections... 
Reflections and leading lines. 

Maybe it's boring, but I wonder what it would go for in a posh art gallery in NYC.