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Hong Kong Fest 2010, Year of the Tiger
I was in Hong Kong during this years Chinese New Year and managed to get myself behind the scenes of Hong Kong’s largest celebration, Hong Kong Fest 2010. It was a full scale production, broadcasted across Hong Kong with dancers and performers galore. Guests consisted of local celebrities and people who shelled out top dollar [...]
Hong Kong + Added Singles…
So I can really wait to post new work and I am jumping the gun a bit. I added a new gallery with images from Hong Kong and I updated the singles gallery as well.
Todays image is from Hong Kong. I was wondering looking for the computer market and as usual, was pretty confused and [...]
New Gallery, new week…
For the next couple weeks I will be adding a new gallery each week to my website. Todays new gallery is a continuation from a previous post about Muay Thai boxing. I also added a few singles so if get a second, take a look.
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The posted image is from the betting area which is just [...]
Back in the U.S.
After a month of traveling through Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore, with most of the time in Thailand, I am little sad to be back. The trip was amazing all around. I love how travel makes me question everything that I am familiar with and reinterpret my world. If anything, this trip helped me ask myself some [...]
Muay Thai
A few posts ago I mentioned that I had started photographing Muay Thai kick boxing. Here is an image from that shoot. It was my first time ever seeing the sport live much less photographing it and it really had me captivated. Through out the night, during each fight, a live band would play what [...]
Koh Lipe…
After spending about a week in Bangkok we have moved to the island of Koh Lipe where I have never seen water and beaches as beautiful as this. The trek down here was not easy, starting off with the taxi taking us to the wrong airport at 5 a.m., then the 2nd taxi trying to [...]
Goodbye Bangkok…
Bangkok has been very good to me and I am sad to say goodbye. I am off to island hop off the Western Coast of Thailand tomorrow morning and I am looking forward to the sun and beach.
The last few days have been a great time as we met a group of locals around our [...]
Bangkok…
I arrived in Bangkok, Thailand today and was greeted by wonderful light and a blessing, literally. I am staying on the out skirts of Bangkok, just far enough from the main city to really get a feel for local life away from tourism. After dropping off my stuff I headed out, wondering around and within [...]
Hong Kong…
I have been in Hong Kong for the last three days or so and I am off to Bangkok on Tuesday. Hong Kong is one crazy place, packed with people, pollution and an interesting convergence of Chinese and Western culture. The city is not large by any means, but is home to some 7 million [...]
Up Coming Travel….
I am going to be heading to S.E. Asia on January 13th and will be for there till February 14th, traveling through Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines. I will be available for assignments in the region and will be working on personal work. I will keep the blog updated with pictures, news and location [...]
DeWalt…
Near the end of summer I shot something for DeWalt inside a few of Baltimore’s old row homes as they were being rehabbed. Here’s a little look. You can see the rest on my website in the newly added commercial gallery.
In The Nights Light…
I have been working on my website and have been updating it the last couple days. I added a new gallery, “In The Night’s Light” and added images to the hip-hop story as well. If you have a moment, take a look and send me any thoughts you may have.
New Tears continued!
This month The Advocate ran the story I shot for them during the “Dont Ask, Don’t Tell” march in D.C. in October. I shot a six page essay, trailing David Valk, a 23 year old activist who uses social media to organize groups of people for protests. When I was with him, he and magazine [...]
New Tears…
From a shoot about a month back for American Lawyer Magazine, its currently on news stands.
Oh so good…
I just got back from a quick trip to NY and an industry party and every time I am there, NY is oh so good to me. Full of interesting people and strange things at all hours of the night.
Cold and raining is the official weather report here and mother nature really slapped us. The cold rain almost stings with suddeness of Fall. I have been sitting on cool projects I have shot waiting for them to be published so I can post them here and few on my website. I am getting really [...]
Fast + Loud
I made a quick trip home for a few days. While here, I hooked up with some old friends and made a few portraits of them a long with my family. Here is the edit from the shoot.
While I was here, I often thought about how I want to live my life. Would you rather live [...]
Kickapoo River Valley
After a crazy couple of weeks, I head to the Kickapoo River Valley with a group of friends for a little camping and canoeing, you can see more pictures here.
Dollar, Dollar, Dollar bills ya’ll
The chase for cash seems to always over shadow the personal persuit of photography. We have to eat dont we? My recent hiatus is just because of that, I have been so busy focusing on jobs that pay and continuing to book paying jobs that I have ignored the blog and other personal ventures. I [...]
Subtlety…
Subtlety is something many of my favorite portrait photographers seem to share and lately its something I have been trying to incorporate a little more into my work. I think the word, “grace”, often describes what I am attracted to in portraiture. Richard Avedon, one of my favorites, effortlessly captured this in both his fashion and [...]
New thoughts?
Wow!! Almost a month since my last post, where have I been? Actually, I have been out of town a bit working and have not had a chance to sit down and post. I am off again this Sunday to Toronto for about a week then back to Baltimore. In June, the look3 photography festival [...]
Transmodern
Last weekend I headed downtown to the Transmodern festival going on all weekend long. I spent part of Sunday enjoying the craziness that took over. As I wandered around, it was hard not to notice that the street performers and exhibits turned the area into the closest thing to Alice and Wonderland without me having [...]
Elephants in the city….
On Wednesday, April 1st, the circus, which is in town for the week, brought six elephants up Eutaw street to the historic Lexington Market in Downtown Baltimore to have lunch with Baltimorians. The elephants stood outside the market in front of huge piles of fruits and vegetables. I have to say, they probably ate better [...]