I’m rereading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Shadow and there was a little exchange between the nun character Sister Carlotta and another command that had an interesting bit of theology in it. “Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief, God uses it…
Month: September 2007
Children’s Minister
Shannon Rains is the children’s minister at my church. I’ve decided to do environmental portraits of all the ministers. She was the first one I thought of and the one I know the best. So we shot for a few minutes on a Wednesday evening before church with some children. I don’t like working with…
Inspiration
Sometimes inspiration comes in strange ways. I’ve always wanted my photography to pay for itself, but haven’t wanted to shoot the things that pay. For instance I don’t want to shoot weddings, the bread and butter of most photographers. But I have lately seen some really great wedding photographers online. Ever since the trash the…
Children’s Programming
They don’t make them like this any more. A 55 Calibier rifle called a Boy’s Anti Tank gun.
Pixie Back Tattoo
Pixie had 3 tattoos on her back. The one on her lower back was really cool, but I didn’t really capture it like I wanted too. But the ones on her upper back and neck I got. I pumped the contrast way up on this image to make the tattoo stand out.
Pixie Wrist Tattoo
I’ve been thinking of offering tattoo portraits, so whenever I have a model with body art, I shoot it. Pixie had 11, two of which were were zodiac signs on her wrist. How do you shoot those? How about like this.