11/19/2009

Jeff	Sara
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When I left the office today and was walking across Boston Common I saw a huge crowd of people over near Frog Pond and heard music playing.  So I wandered over and discovered that tonight was the opening ceremony for this season’s ice skating.  So I hung around for a bit and watched skaters that had taken lessons at Frog Pond perform.  The kids I saw ranged from about 7 or 8 to late teens.  And a couple of the older teens were quite good.  I had stuff to do, so I didn’t stay too long.  But I decided to grab images for tonight’s project post.Because of the shutter lag of the iPhone’s camera, it was very tough to get a shot with the skater anything but a barely-visible ghost.  I’d love to claim photographic prowess here, but this skater being fairly visible was a fair amount of trial and error in order to time it right, along with a healthy dose of luck thrown in.	This evening I headed down to Bellevue to check out “Cupcakes and Champagne,” which was the dual studio opening of both Butterfly Design Studio and Kirsten Shultz Photography.  I spent most of my time wandering through Kirsten’s new office/gallery space.  I had the chance to shoot with Kirsten just about a year ago at the Sun Valley Ballet’s Nutcracker performance.  She is a photo-journalist by training and trade, though now does a swift business in wedding photography here in Sun Valley. While wandering through Kirsten’s gallery a gentleman named John struck up a conversation with me regarding art.  While sipping my personal-sized bottle of champagne through a straw (I kid you not) we talked about photography, illustration, and the meaning of art versus representation.  I actually had to whip out my Moleskine and take notes on some of the key points after he departed.  My mind is still in a tizzy. Considering the current brain mush inside my cabesa, I feel lucky I was able to shoot anything tonight.   I was drawn to the repeating patterns that came together in this shot, as well as the contrast of the glass against it’s dark background.  The slight green tint is not a fancy Photoshop trick, but instead a FL-G1 green gel illuminated by a simple pen light.

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