August 2010
4 posts
“There are two subsets of photographers : the creators and the seekers. I am...”
– Sonja Burgess, a.k.a. favourite waste of time
May the Wet Flames Cleanse You
Religions fascinate me. They haven’t always, but lately, I’ve become enthralled with the particulars of religions, especially the small ritual motions, ranging from the big, like Jewish Bar/t Mitzvahs and Islamic pilgrimages to Mecca, to the small, like Buddhist Mudras and Catholic Communion.
During our short visit to Sensō-ji, I had the privilege to examine- and take part in- some...
Don't Want to Change
Clichéd, or just awesome? I’ve seen this shot so many times- at least a dozen or so times from Thomas Hawk himself (see his Escalators set), but it’s still a shot I enjoy seeing- it just looks so smooth at times and so crisp at others.
Anyways, maybe it was just because I had just spent two weeks in Europe, a continent where people uphold decades-old traditions, but I was very much...
Corner
Alright, alright- I know all of you have been wondering about how I could travel to Europe and Japan for three weeks and not have anything to show for it. Well, as for Europe, my D40 died on the second day in Venice and I only got off about 200 shots or so, almost all of which were of family and what-not. Nothing to spectacular to show in those photographs except for how we sheperded twenty-four...