Farm Women's Co-operative Market

A new Maryland Life is out today. One of the featured articles is on the Farm Women's Market in Bethesda. This venerable co-op has been around since the '30s, many of the stalls passed down generations. Yours truly provided the photography that accompanies the tastefully written story by Renee Sklarew.

Pick up a copy, won't you?

Cheers.

Maryland Life Magazine

Just a little note to bring attention to the latest issue of Maryland Life, which features a photo essay from yours truly. The magazine should be in the stores soon. So keep an eye out. In the meantime you can see a few images at the website.

Thanks for looking.

My only friend... the End.

This is from an outing earlier this year. I was shooting an assignment for Maryland Life and this just sort of presented itself. I think I can hear The End by The Doors somewhere in the background.

Ridin' the Trails.

Shooting an assignment for Maryland Life this summer, I attempted a different point of view. Borrowed a friends bike (thanks Blair!) and hit the trail. I strapped the camera tight to my chest, zoomed out to 12mm and set the timer to 2 seconds. I'd depress the shutter and quickly place my right hand back on the handlebar and wait for the "click." I did this repeatedly up and down the trail just to make sure I got the shot. Out of about 20 images this was the only real keeper. Thankfully it did run in the article, but it ran rather small on the page. Not too easy to see the motion/blur. So here it is full size.

Peace.

The Hands of a Carver

This past Spring I went up to Havre de Grace and Aberdeen to shoot a story on duck carvers and the Decoy Museum for Maryland Life magazine. There, I met and photographed Capt Harry Jobes... a master carver and a true original. I found the good Capt in his shop telling stories and cracking jokes with his old friend Charlie. In his hands was a roughhewn piece of wood slowing morphing into the head of some species of waterfowl. On the shelves were mallards, "old squaws" and mergansers in various states of completion.

Called "gunning birds," these decoys are today highly prized American folk art collectibles. Harry has been practicing the art of wooden decoy carving for over 60 years. At an early age he tutored with the "Dean of the Upper Chesapeake Bay decoy makers," R. Madison Mitchell. You can see each man's work in their very own exhibit at the Decoy Museum in Havre de Grace.

I made these images of the man in his Aberdeen workshop. Oh, and that small head he was carving when I first came in? It is now proudly displayed on my desk at home!

A true gentleman that Capt Harry.