This is an illustrative photo that I took today. These are my friends Wynonah and John. John is a lawyer and his wife Wynonah works at M. E. Swing's Coffee Shop. They agreed to help me with my photo assignment. I really like this picture, but I'm not quite sure it will illustrate the type of "obsessive love" the publisher is looking for.
I was doing some research for a photo and one of the DVDs recommended to me by the man at Video Americain was Ichi the Killer. Never watch this movie also known as Koroshiya 1, it is the most repulsive thing you could ever do. It may as well have been a movie about building a giant blender to put people in. Yuck! But I found the best Chinese restaurant in DC ... Blue Diamond Chinese. Next time I'll get the Sesame Chicken minus the demented Japanese horror film.
It was a typically good summer Saturday in DC. I went to my friends' house and ate some good food. Then we all pilled into the Metro train and headed off to the Black Cat to watch every last one of the 10 cover bands. Sometimes it seemed like no one knew who the bands were covering until a couple songs into the set. A very fun show for only $7.
This is Brandon and his dad Don. They recently agreed to help me illustrate "an adult yelling at or striking a child (to show an abusive parent) must be MR." I am just beginning to see the fun in this type of text-book editorial photography. My models are professional actors in Shakespeare's play of Life ... "all the world is a stage, and we are all players or actors upon this earth."
I have been trying to schedule shoots with a lot of my friends. I am taking a lot of photos for an Allyn & Bacon college text book called Marriage, Family, and Intimate Relationships. They are asking for a variety of scenarios to be illustrated. In this picture my friends Andrew and Maris model a scenario that depicts a woman being stalked by a man.
My Mom has been fighting with cancer for a while. Her treatment is at a stage where it might be doing more harm than good. Today she told me she might stop her treatment. Of course I want her to do whatever makes her happy.
My friend Casey gave me a ride out of DC to a Target Store today so I could get a shot of the pattern in a children's plastic wading for an elementary math text book. I couldn't find a molded-plastic pool anywhere; they are all blow-up type now. I put a post on Craig's List and got a response pointing me to Target. Casey dropped me off by H St NW and I saw this bird nest in a Starbuck's sign.
This guy was headed down 16th St NW earlier today while I waited for an extremely crowded bus. When he was passing I said, "Be careful." He said, "Hello." I took the bus downtown and went over to the Humane Society's mail room to pick up some copies of Animal Sheltering Magazine. I took the cover photo and about 10 photos inside that illustrate a story about the mental illness of animal hoarders or "cat ladies." Stereotypically, eccentric older women who have a house full of animals they can't take proper care of. If you would like a free sample of my work in Animal Sheltering Magazine go to this link, and type, "Opening the Closed Door."
This is Princess, my neighbor Spencer's dog. Princess is 8 years old. Spencer has lived in his house on Kilbourne Pl for 34 years; he has lived in Mount Pleasant for nearly 50 years. I am moving off Kilbourne Pl the beginning of August.
I really enjoy a live performance over recorded music. I thought the music I was hearing was being played from an album, but it was Frankojazz. Frank on the guitar and his son Julian on the drums. I had to stop and take a couple of pictures when I heard this father/son team jamming on Kilbourne Pl NW. Eight-year-old Julian seems to be a prodigy on the drums ... I imagine he owes it to the musical guidance of his father.
Protestors supporting the Falun Dafa religion have been demonstrating in DC for the past few days. They say China has been killing members of the new Falun Dafa or Falun Gong religion. They gave me a free DVD and pamphlet. From the first few minutes of the video it looks like the guy who developed Falun Dafa in 1993 held sell-out seminars all over China. The sudden popularity of a man with far-reaching ideas or just thinking differently has always been a good reason for death.
