Candace Owens, Outer Banks artist/photographer, stopped by just now to get me to sign her copy of the June issue of NatGeo with my OBX story in it. I am right now so crazed busy, but how could I say no?
The mother of two of the cutest kids I have ever seen, Candace and her husband Randy are also part of my upcoming American Family series. So you will someday meet the whole family. One of Candy’s paintings (a mermaid) graces my wall. She also shoots weddings and family pictures for local photographer Brooke Mayo.
As you probably know I shoot all the time. Mostly casual snapshots like this. After all, lucky me, photography is very much my hobby. Occasionally I post here, but it always seems awkward. It interrupts the flow of the emerging photographers essays. So I mostly put my stuff on Instagram and share right along with everyone else waiting to see if I have any “likes”. Funny. Essay in NatGeo, new book out, but looking for “likes” on Instagram. Well honestly I love to see how everyone shoots on a daily basis. What is happening now. I shoot these with my iPhone just to be totally amateurish in nature.
Fact is we all love to do this, so I have a new idea. BurnDiary.
Burn’s own Haik Mesropian has created now for us a new page where we can do this on Burn. Your Instagrams can come here. On a separate Burn “bulletin board” so we can interact for real with new pictures shot with any camera. Only one picture per person per day (yes, you too Panos). Let’s see how it works. Should be fun and it will keep our front page here clean only for essays OR for the the shot that YOU just took that we decide to bring to the front. So sharpen your eye, shoot what is around you in an interesting way, and fire it off to BurnDiary. Details coming soonest on how you will do this.
Thanks for stopping by Candace. Thanks for letting me take a picture of you as well. You are a model mom. My door is open to you and the family any time.
And to continue the Peace, Love and Photography theme, it was a pleasure to share a house with Panos, Kim, Wendy, Doug, Kurt, Sarah, Maria and Vissaria. We all had a great time together… Greek coffee and chocolate croissants in the morning, long talks in the backyard into the wee hours, “family” meals on the mall with lots of old friends and new ones too. Just lots of warmth all around.. Thanks guys!
Look3 sounds like fun. I must go someday, if I can ever get IRL to go along with the idea.
Paul; Thanks for that Jim White link! I haven’t read it before. I’ve been fortunate to swap a few emails etc with Jim and he told me that he reads “Suttree” when he feels down. Reading that book lifts him up during those “doubting times” :-)
Out of the blue…
Interview about ‘Quest for Land’ in ‘Verve Photo’…
http://vervephoto.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/interview-with-john-vink/
Leave IRL at home , easy… Geez..
U always over complicate things;)
A little bit more of Burnians at LOOK3 featuring Panos, Kim, Wendy, Eva, Laura, Maria, Vissaria, Kurt, Andrew B, John and David. Guest appearance by Donna Ferrato. http://douglasmaclellan.photoshelter.com/gallery/Burnians-at-LOOK3/G0000a4bH1iFr86o
http://instagr.am/p/L4Y35lhrex/
(stolen from a Doug MACLELLAN photo;)
thank u DOUG…
soonest;)
(sorry for pixelated iphone screenshot)
Either way!!! Doug , thank you for posting .. Keep it coming .. I know u have more…:)
Oh cool! I look great!!! And am much much younger!! And had fun!!
Only that it is not me :(
Doug.. that’s sweet Audrey in your pictures :)
doug…many thanks for sharing
Doug,Thank you Merci :)) Glad to meet you at Look3 and my name is Audrey, not Eva…
Eva, when do we meet us ?!! I Hope very soon :)))
Hugs! audrey
Zun Lee, student at the loft workshop last year (I met him briefly during the editing of (based on a true story) back in February) is on NYT Lensblog:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/exploring-african-american-fatherhood/
(Audrey, hope so too!)
Audrey, I am so sorry…corrections made now. Very red with embarrassment, burning in fact.
Doug , U DA MAN!!!
good morning all from the Land of the Brave and the Land of the FREE!!!
Doug,
Don’t worry! It made me laugh :)))) Especially because I forget always the name of people (ask to my friends!!) for one time, it’s not me ;)) And thank you again for the great pictures !!!
all the best, audrey
Easier said than done, Panos, easier said than done. And my father, may he rest in peace, used to have trouble with names, too. Whenever he wanted me to do something he’d point at me and say, hey you; I thought hey you was my name until I was about six years old. And if he wanted one of my brothers, he’d snap his fingers and say, Joe! Frank! Fred! Charlie! get over here now. This is all very well and good, of course, but while I do have four brothers, none of them are named Joe, Frank, Fred, or Charlie, so when me and my brothers were kids we spent a long time trying to figure out who in the hell these other guys were. We never did, which annoyed us no end, since it looked to us that Joe, Frank, Fred, and Charlie were getting out of the chores we couldn’t get out of, the lousy bastards.
The demand for more ‘Burnians at LOOK3′ has been overwhelming…actually Panos wanted to see some more…I honour requests…including a properly identified Audrey plus Panos, Kim, Wendy, Andrew B in the shadows, Mike Young, Patricia, Vissaria and David here: http://douglasmaclellan.photoshelter.com/gallery/Burnians-at-LOOK3-Too/G0000xBtO3TJdFzQ
Akaky…
:)))
(though i’m 90% sure i’ve read this before.)
You probably have, Thodoris; I’ve been telling this story about my old man for years. In fact, I used to ask him who those guys were, but he’d always say it was none of my damn business.
Akaky I hear u I hear u….:)
Doug, thank you again…:)
I wonder I’d there will be any room available for rent in C/Ville next Look3…
This “thing” getting bigger better stronger…
As Method Man once quoted:
“We don’t die, we multiply”
Happy birthday LAURA …!!!
What not to love my BURNIANS …so busy, I will be back
2 more days for Grecolandia…
Let’s see …pandora’s box is waiting!
I love u ALL. THANK you ALL…blah, blah
for Candy
DOUG,DOUG,DOUG…!!!!!!!!!!
Oime, THANK YOU for reporting…
They are ALL LOOKing amazing…
Viva BURNIANS…what a freaking great family…
I need my coffee…one more day for Grecolandia…
It doesn’t take much to figure that the Look3 Festival is an excellent reconstruction/analogy of the art community of early 20th century Paris. The Promenade Mall of historic downtown Charlottesville, empty of cars, shaded, and full of outdoor cafes, could easily pass for Montparnasse. Photographers of every ilk, from the legendary Ferrato, Webb and Greene, to the solidly entrenched Nichols, Taylor-Lind and Saman, through to the about-to-be Danny Wilcox Frazier, were all about, rubbing our elbows; for me an exquisite belle epoque of the photographic world.
At the peak of this godhead of inter-connected creativity of course was Godfather as Matisse, and Maestro as Picasso. What a treat to meet with them together for the first time in just over a year, and certainly too, too much to go into here. It was my pleasure to be introduced to both Madame Maestro, and Godfather’s Muse. What not to love?
Central to all was the way-station of Miller’s Tavern, where the Burnians were encamped like the Fauves. These Wild Beasts of C’Ville were uniformly riotous and always warm in their welcome. You already know who attended – introductions were made beforehand – but it was a magnificent experience to embrace all both physically and spiritually in the flesh. Especially Civi who arrived later. A wonderful man, who has been lying to us about his age. If he’s in his eighties, then all I can say is Ouzo and olives are the secret to rejuvenation! Haha!
My contribution to the Burn Diary is below, with a better-than-Facebook version of dear Vissaria’s pano shot-see #12. (I had asked for a Vissaria workshop, and watched closely how she worked. 45 seconds of picture-taking was all I needed from her.):
http://www.dpreview.com/galleries/8965445656/albums/look3
Jeff, Civi was there? picture please!
GORDON…I was there!
But as you know by now I am everywhere
CIVILIAN… Please, don’t push your fellow
Photophilosophers cause there will be no
Pictures of me…hihiiii
I BURNED all the evidence…hiibiii…
Hard disks,film,links…
cause
I believe in Democracy…hiihiiiihii…
I am in a good mood…go Greeks…we are f u c k e d therefore
Let’s shake our asses!
JEFF…I want your zippo;) yeap:))) and ouzo on you again
Am I a needy civilian? hell nooooooooo…
Nothing fills me more with despair and sadness for the future than to see young people who seem reasonably intelligent in other ways smoking cigarets… and their friends who tolerate it.
Strange, cos thats how I feel about young people and religion.
JOHN GLADDY
exactly
Strange, cos thats how I feel about young people and wombats…
John G!!!
Right on :)
Did the Greek team just won?
Russia out? Interesting !
The Pirates won over the Status Quo?
Interesting…!
well sometimes the Bad Boys win…
only sometimes….
http://instagr.am/p/L803UKhrS6/
did I say Pirates…
Nahhh , I meant to say the “Anarchists”..;)
Jacob Aue Sobol
http://vimeo.com/42305451
Paul, I always feel humbled when I see work like that…
Jason…
It’s looks so easy at first doesn’t it! Then one goes out onto the street and suddenly at least in my case I find it so hard to walk up to strangers and start talking let alone get a photo. Jacob Aue Sobol goes right in personal into the subjects life.
Hey folks – pardon the intrusion for a “technical” question, but I am in need of some advice to save me much time and experimentation (which, of course, I will end up doing anyway, but that’s another issue….).
Anyway, for those who use or have used the GF1, what focusing method have you found works best/fastest? I need a starting point.
And a happy Fathers Day to all those out there that serve in that role….biological or not….
good light,
a.
GO MY GREEK PEOPLE…
There must be a way…time for REVOLUTION
Be strong, be safe … May the spirits be with US…
All of US!!!
And HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to all of US!!!
Here’s some walking around photos from yesterday. I did a lot of walking yesterday. Most I’ve done since I hurt my foot last Thanksgiving. It was a purplish/violet kind of day.
andrew b
af mostly on the GF1 with the 20mm lens on …….. i use the af lock button quite a lot …once click it locks focus …..2nd click on af mode again ……… MF on tht lens is not as practical as MF on say a 50 mm nikkor dslr lens would be imho ………
VIVEK:
thank you. been playing with it some today. I do have the 20mm lens. Do you use the AF with the single block, the one with the multiple block, or the tracking? I think the single set small (and you can move it) seems fastest…
single block in the center
focussing the same way like vivek.
GF1, 20mm, AF, single block middle
Thanks guys! Now back to our regularly scheduled non-techie talk :)
When will the Burn Diary start functioning?
Civi! Panos is wearing my hat. I see him in photos with it. Make him send it to me! :)