Touching base...

Sorry, people. I'm in a bit of a dry spell. Have plans for new essays and singles soon. Keep checking in. Meantime, this is a photo I took at FotoweekDC. My friend Bob Blake got that shot of the fish market down on Maine Ave. in SW Washington. Part of the all night shoot they have each year. All photos are to be taken between 6PM and 6AM. I was unable to pull the all nighter. But it has inspired me... more on that in the coming weeks.

Cheers,

-M

FotoWeek DC 2009

Big photography festival all week folks. All over town. Go check it out!

At a gallery called the Fight Club in NW, near the Convention Center, I attended a gallery showing of David Alan Harvey's work from his Spanish diaspora series. He also featured work by three other photographers... Chris Bickford, Michael Loyd Young and A.J. Wilhelm. Impressive work all.

I asked David to pose with this iconic image. It is one of the first photographs of his I can remember seeing and thinking, Man, that's a great shot. I'd like to do that! I started to think about who the artist was. What was he thinking? How did he achieve this or that? What were some of the other things he did? I was fifteen at the time, I think, and from then on I made a point of going through the National Geographic contents page looking for photographers' names, irregardless of the story.

And today? Well, here's a link-->(click here) to a web page I created of the other evening. Enjoy.

Thanks David. Good time.