I’m really thrilled that not only can you buy Nidhi’s prints, which are often for sale on her website, but also her woodburnings, now on Fab.com!
I’m also thrilled that I took the photos of the wood burnings and of Nidhi herself! 
ZAAZ photos (round two) are up!
Following on the success of the first round of fashion-y photos of my ZAAZ London colleagues, we went for round 2 with the new folks. This time I shot seven people instead of the original 18, which really gave me some time to get it RIGHT. I feel like I learned a lot the first time around, and actually I wrote some posts about how I shot some of those portraits, too. There will be more of those posts to come!
You can enjoy the full portfolio here – it’s worth it! Here are some selects to tempt you…
Experimenting with watercolors
Been working on a few new things lately…watercolors, for the first time. All still being developed…
My laptop was stolen
…from my office, no less. This is obviously a major bummer. (Or as Lefteris would say, a major “bomber”.) Luckily I had just done a huge backup of my photos, so while this is an enormous hassle, it could be so much worse. I have of course lost some of my recent source files, but nothing major.
Overall, this made me feel kind of like I’d just dropped my ice cream cone.
The main problem is that for the immediate future, while I’m waiting for a replacement, I have no way to process photos. I’d just processed a ton of them and prepped them for uploading, but I’ll have to go back to the source files once I have a new machine…
All of which is a long-winded way to say, posts for a little while may be slightly different than usual!
Door buzzers in Venice: they look like faces
Surely I am not suffering from an awful case of pareidolia: these buzzers, all over Venice, REALLY looked like faces. Take a look at the whole portfolio – seriously, it’s WEIRD! And they all have different personalities!
“ACK! I didn’t see you there!”
“Hey, good-lookin…”
“Ooooooooh”
New Orleans textures
I’m a sucker for shots like this. I always think I’ll layer them with something in Photoshop, and sometimes I do. When I look at them alone critically I tend to think there’s no real point to them, but what can I say…I just like them. Especially when shot with my 100mm/f2.8 macro lens which makes them dreeeeeamy.
Halloween crafts
I’ve never been very into Halloween, which is weird since it’s pretty much the craftiest holiday there is. But I saw this project online (I’m not sure where) and I just had to make my own. It took about 20 minutes to make both and I did so before work one day. Quite a lot of bang for the buck for a cheap Halloween decoration!
Dr. Gabriel McClelland, reculsive author and professor of Gabeology
A few weeks back I had the pleasure of shooting the portraits that will run alongside an interview with the world’s leading Gabeologist. Having always considered myself something of an amateur Gabeologist myself, this was a delight.
All of those, with the exception of the wide shot of the room, were shot with my 50mm f/1.2. The wide shot was my 24-70 f/2.8. That 50mm…I mean, really. The light is so beautiful, and that lens just seems to wrap it around everything like a cashmere blanket. These photos are exactly the kind of work I like, and want, to do the most.
Lefteris and me in the lavender fields
My friend Ina was kind enough to take these lovely portraits of Lefteris and me in the lavender fields.
