Things in threes

The Variety Building on Wilshire.


Poor Stan Lee, he gets a star on the walk of fame and his security folks nearly knock the old guy down.


Where else can you see Mary Poppins talking with Yoda? Only on Hollywood Blvd.

One can just see something that looks different, maybe because of point of view is different, or just not immediately obvious when you first see it.

Dave & Minta

I often wonder while I am shooting an image of someone, what it is they are thinking. This is one where I am pretty certain I know what is going through the subject's head.



His thoughts seem to be written out loud.

Daily photos

We all make resolutions to do this or not do that around the first of the year, but I don't want to 'do' but I would rather 'be' or accomplish attainable goals.
One of them is to be more creative in my everyday and I am going to set out to accomplish that.

Here it goes:

All things New

A new year has dawned and I would like to touch on the unfortunate passing.
The era of Kodachrome. Yea it was over on the 30th of December. I did try to get the last of mine all shot before that date but in waiting for something that i felt was worthy, too much time passed. Some of my first paid assignments were shot on Kodachrome and although I made the transition to digital in 1999 and began to phase film out of my regular assignments I still used it on occasion when I felt that it (the assignment or subject) had to be more permanently archived.
When it was announced that Kodachrome would no longer be made I thought, no way will Photographers allow it to be halted.
When it was announced that Dwayne's photo would not process any more k14 after the end of 2010, I thought, well some one will.
Then it hit me this summer. I have over fifty rolls of the stuff and I have to use it. Now!

So I told myself that I needed to find a subject worthy of my last Kodachrome and shoot it up.

I don't have the last of the images scanned yet, or even back from Dwayne's yet but when I do i will post some of them here.

I wish all of you a happy new year following this wake for Kodachrome.

CJ


UPDATE:
Well, it has been several days into 2011 and still no sign of my finals rolls of Kodachrome. A short conversation with Dwaynes Photo and I find out that they were inundated with film at the end of the year and are still trying to get through all of it. Those images will be up here soon.

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This week I have been covering the President's vacation on Martha's Vineyard. I know, most people who know that I am here are telling me that I have it tough. Well, it actually is.

Typical day... Up early to see if there has been movement. If there isn't any movement, I head to where I THINK he might go. I choose the West Tisbury Fair. Good thought at the moment. After two days it doesn't pan out. In fact several of my colleagues have the same thought at one time or another while I am there. At least I am friends with most of them. Nearly everyone at the fair thinks that the president is going to arrive any minute solely based on the fact that I and several other news photographers are on the grounds. Oh boy do we cover that fair.

oh yea, the reason I'm here. Never see him. He skipped the fair.

Tony Allen

Several folks have asked to see my view of the Tony Allen date I had on May 28th...

These are in order by time, and there are two different views because my floor level camera is tethered to my short lens camera to shoot simultaneously.... way too many pictures

















Well, all is well that ends well.
It was a pretty hard hit and it seems as if he didn't really make much of an effort to miss me.
I got a hard hit to the eye socket, a broken pocketwizard and the attention of the team trainer and several of my concerned colleagues. I guess all of us photographers are just one big family.

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