I’ve been using Macs forever – since the very first one, back in 1984, and I’ve long been a fan. Now, I’ve done my fair share of bouncing back and forth in my life, so I know what PCs are about, but at heart, it was always Macs that I loved. But it wasn’t always that way. Set the time machine way back, and you’ll find me as a young boy thinking “What the hell type of name is that?” After all, that was the age of IBM – International Business Machines. Companies with serious names. Real names. And here was…Apple? Apple?!?

But if there’s one truth I’ve learned about business, it is this. You define what good is. Good … Read more...

Photo by Sean Flanigan
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This is really what modern life is. A blow by blow play captured via phone or point and shoot. Along with a great expression from the older man on the right, the texture from the glass imparts a wonderful sense of atmosphere. Sean creates a perfect combination here, fusing together the literal and the figurative – the almost pedestrian act of taking a self-portrait paired with the dream-like abstraction of the image itself.… Read more...

Photo by Tatiana Garanina
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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...

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...

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...