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Archives for May 2011

Picture of the Day: Tatiana Garanina


Photo by Tatiana Garanina
happydayphoto.com/

Haven’t been able to keep up lately – so many shoots going on over here! But I’m back to it, and trying to get some posts in. Here’s one I was waiting to post for awhile. Sometimes, you just need to dream. Not literal, not documenting. Just atmosphere, just light, pattern, and a beautiful glance at one another that just hangs.… Read more...

By Spencer Lum

A $.10 narrative

If you listen to NPR, you know you can’t hear about Osama Bin Laden and go more than a few minutes without the word narrative smacking you in the face. It’s always just a stone’s throw away. If you don’t, then, well, now you know. What was the narrative? How do we offer an alternative narrative? What narratives are playing out? And that just goes to show that words aren’t a whole lot different than pictures. Trend-dominated, while trying to keep the masses at bay – we, whether that we is us as photographers, analysts, or anything else – are practitioners ever in pursuit of higher ground. We have to be better than the next guy, because the next guy … Read more...

By Spencer Lum

Out of stock – get people excited or get out

There I was, waiting to buy a runner for the hallway. Now, you have to know that buying carpets just isn’t that exciting to me. But we needed one, so we were buying one. I wasn’t sure if we would keep it. I figured my wife and I would take a look and decide then. We added it to the cart, went to checkout, and then we saw the message you just never want to see. This item is not in stock. In fact, it wouldn’t be for 3 months. 3 months!

My pulse pounded, my head ran off to wherever it runs off to in this type of situation, and I start to think that I simply must have … Read more...

By Spencer Lum

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