Archive for the ‘ Life in the Corporate World ’ Category
You know that feeling when you look at older technology and marvel at the intricacies of their jeweled engineering? I have named this feeling technostalgia. Today, I was playing with a very old lens, an 85mm f/2 AI-S Nikkor lens which has no motors, no chips, no auto-focus, no communication with the camera, nothing. But what [ READ MORE ]
Funny how things work in the Corporate World. After 5 years of being blocked, Flickr was recently freed from the shackles of Big Brother’s proxy at my work. All it took was a single phone call from someone obviously much more important than I. Now, instead of having to bring images home on a jumpdrive and [ READ MORE ]
I had to shoot an annual meeting for a women’s group the other day. The client wasn’t asking for anything special, just some images to put on a newsletter, in a website or wherever they could find space. So I took the requisite pairings and crowd shots but then later concentrated on the very pretty country [ READ MORE ]
Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old Greek style. She almost never [ READ MORE ]
Tonight I had dinner with someone who asked me about having a backup plan if the whole photography thing didn’t work out. I thought for a while and responded that most of my career has been spent in the less-affluent side of things due to the fact that I never wanted to “sell out” and [ READ MORE ]
Tonight as my sister, niece and I looked out from the roof-top deck at the rising dusk, my niece said, “Good morning, night.” Even though she is three, I am inspired by her sideways approach to everyday things. One day, after I sang the phrase, “too many monkeys,” during a long walk, we transformed the [ READ MORE ]
A good photo is knowing where to stand. – Ansel Adams As someone who is often asked for advice on photography, I usually tuck this quote in right after giving an overview of the bucket analogy, three-point lighting and the two-thirds rule. To me, it all comes down to this: knowing where to stand. Today, I thought of that [ READ MORE ]
I’m glad I’m not a writer, in the professional sense. Sure, I take photos, and sure, some people might think I’m putting myself out there with my “vision of the world”, but for me, my vision(s) of the world are literally snapshots in time, not labored over, heavily edited presentations of my most deep and [ READ MORE ]
Lesson for all budding photographers out there: BE ORGANIZED. I may have a messy apartment, and maybe my desk is a little disheveled, but take a look at any part of my computer or the digital asset databases that I have domain over and you will see that they are as clean as a fresh [ READ MORE ]
Look at this… There’s creativity, and then there’s blow your mind creativity. As a photographer among many accountants, I’m often labeled as an artist at my admitedly very corporate job. And sometimes that feels good because I want to be someone different from the regular pack animal. I’d prefer to be the black sheep if [ READ MORE ]
So have you ever felt like it was Friday when it was only Wednesday? Or did you ever think the week must almost be over, but it’s only Tuesday? It’s like our mental clocks are just getting back from vacation with a tan and stories while you’ve been slaving away at the data entry. That [ READ MORE ]
There are few moments in life as satisfying as the moment when you get to prove yourself correct in an argument. You may remember this moment demonstrated in Annie Hall. Well today, blog, I had that moment. I was in the midst of scheduling hell (by the way, I’ve determined that I am a secretary [ READ MORE ]
Here’s what I did today. Got up and went to work Went to a meeting Shot a headshot for a doc Went to a Christmas lunch Went home and spent a few hours watching CommunityChannel Productive. I love how when you are talking in a big group at a big table, and the conversation is [ READ MORE ]
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