We are all individuals. All have our quirks. Good points and bad. But we also all have things that make us different. Sure, maybe we all have the same type of arm sockets and hand shape. But we can wear a different helmut or possibly a full face war mask. You might not be able to bend at the waist too well, but give the head a full Linda Blair turrn, and you really stand out.
So, next time the pegs just dont fit and you feel like a brick remember this: what fun would it be if we were all the same?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Face In The Crowd
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Big Brother & the Holding Company
Big Brother & the Holding Company, originally uploaded by ArcherVision.
August, 2 2008
Mill Street Blues with Big Brother & the Holding Company
millstreetbrews.com, South Bridge, Massachusetts
Great show and nice folks. Mary Bridget was incredible and did Janis proud. I took these shots right after my own band, The Concoction warmed up the crowd. The set was fun and the drum kit sounded great on stage, one of the factors that I judge gigs on. Had fun seeing David Getz lay down some nice grooves. Drums and Photography. Two of my favorite things.
Besides having low light and shivers up my spine from Mary's intense vocal performance, I think I got a few shots that I like. Hopefully, you agree.
If you get a chance to check out Big Brother...do it. It's a great night of masterful music and if you close your eyes, you can picture Janis, belting out some serious classic rock.
check out:
http://www.bbhc.com/main.html
http://www.theconcoction.com/
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
King of All Frogs
When given a choice of a quick shot out of a moving car with an unfamilar, very slow point and shoot or no shot at all....I have to go with whatever I can get. And sometimes you get a really interesting image.
I was on my way to Mohegan Sun to see Rush with my friend Shawn when we came on this bridge adorned with some pretty fancy frogs.
Not the shot I would have liked to get, but not a total croaker either.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Why Ducks Float
When shooting in a place that you have been to countless times, you need to start finding new things to capture. Today, that was the case for me at Forest Park. One block away and also one of the largest urban parks in the country, I have hiked, biked, walked and shot my way through every inch of it by now. So, today I took only a long lens and went after the small things. The less obvious. I took a little more time. Occasionally standing in one spot looking for something with detail, or an interesting play on the light.
A wire mesh and stone block wall keeps the far edge of one of the duck ponds from totally backing up into the outlet of a small stream that I have been going to for so long, the edge of the pond has filled in about 30 feet. I guess that would do it, about a foot a year.
Anyways, while I was on that stone wall, crossing to the other side of the end of the pond I found this nice single white feather, most certainly from one of the ducks I shot a little earlier. Maybe it was even from Whitey Beakman. This one lone feather was floting on the green film of tiny little pond things. You know the ones. The ones that look like green scum from a distance, but are really little green floating things. (I would get more specific, but I’m tired.)
Looking closely at this picture you can see how little of the feather is actually touching the surface. Now, I’m no specialist in North American aquatic plant studies, or how the upward force on an object produced by the surrounding liquid or gas in which it is fully or partially immersed, due to the pressure difference of the fluid between the top and bottom of the object, enables the object to float but I think this may have something to do with why ducks don’t sink.
Flowers. Everyone is doing them.
Does this sound familar?
You spend countless hours of searching for new places to shoot, tons of expensive fossil fuels to find them. You take photo after photo, retouching and cropping. Experimenting and learning. You buy expensive cameras and test lens after lens. You then only put up the good ones. The ones worth pushing get into Flickr groups and maybe, if you're lucky someone notices.
Or:
You take a small point and shoot, grab a close up of a flower, and "Zing...!" you're being invited to groups left and right, favorited, blogged about and might even end up on a kitchen wall some where in Sheboigan.
Go figure.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Caves at Grotto Bay
So much to talk about....so little time.
Here is one of many images from my recent honeymoon in Bermuda. Like most die-hard photogcouples, it turned into a great photo safari with the areas incredible views, colors and locals being around every twisty narrow road.
You can check out some of my Bermuda images here
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
My studio set
My kit while recording at Bat Cave Studios, Southbridge MA. The Concoction finished up our cd "Sonic Elixirs Served Daily" and you can rush right over to www.theconcoction.com to get a copy. It is also up on www.cdbaby.com .
UH-60A Black Hawk
One of my favorite shots from a shoot I did for Barnes Aerospace while shooting the Connecticut Army National Gaurd.
Monday, April 21, 2008
GT2 @ Lime Rock Park
Spent a day last weekend at Lime Rock Park, a unique and historic road racing track in Connetticut to take in some racing and research for a documentary I am thinking about making.
Being an open track day there were plenty of cars from daily-drivers to classics to high-end highly tuned sports cars. Although this GT2 almost looks like its parked, it was actually wizzing by at about 100.
This is great track for spectators, offering rolling green lawns instead of grandstands and more trees than billboards with oil company logos. You can also learn to race there at the Skip Barber Racing facility.
I really need to go back and do that!
Friday, March 07, 2008
Eco 8 Royal after test flight
Weather still cold, but still getting out flying a bit...in between crashes, that is.
ArcherVision Helicam
Not entirely finished, but it is flying....well, sort of. All I need now is a new Bell-Hiller Mixer Arm, which I broke.
Need....bigger.....heli....!
Monday, April 17, 2006
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