Recent Still Life Work

More experiments in flowers (a.k.a. "getting my Mappelthorpe on, but not in a weird way"):







I had some fun disassembling an old (4G) Seagate hard drive. Below are the actuator arm and head, circuit board, motor and the platters from the drive.









Finally, by way of a still life photograph, here are my photography monograph book recommendations. Every one a gem:

Recent Portraiture Work

I've done a few portraits that I'm proud of over the last few months. Here are a few:

Here are a few of a couple of my best friends, who were patient enough to let me experiment on them with some new lighting equipment:









I had an opportunity to do a quick, impromptu set of headshots for a neighbour of friend who needed a headshot for a new website venture. I happened to have my lights with me, so we went to business while the rest of the folks ate dinner (and mine got cold):



A couple of friends asked me to take a variety of portraits. Most of them were of the head-and-shoulders variety, but I really liked this environmental portrait of the two of them:



Recently I had the opportunity to do some still photography on a video set for a company that deals in video conferencing systems. This is one of my favourites from the stills we submitted:

New Still Life Work

It's been a while since I've been able to concentrate on any photography of note. I've recently done a few lighting and composition experiments in still life photography.

Here's an experiment in composition, both in placement of the subject and constructed background and lighting, that I think worked out well:


Here's a simpler shot of the same orchid, with some variation in the lighting:


Here are the results in some experiments in lighting reflective glass objects with a single light (pay no attention to the suspiciously missing contents from each of these - these three bottles have actually been on my shelf for years):

Still Life Flora

I was inspired this weekend to play with controlled light in still life photography. I went downstairs and bought some flowers (a stressful experience - the number of times I've bought flowers in my life that wasn't a last-second purchase to be immediately handed off to my mother or another deserving female is exactly zero), spent hours setting up the lights and tweaking the arrangements. Below are a few examples.

Christmas Family Portraits

At Christmas this year we had a larger than usual family gathering. I took the opportunity to do individual portraits of each. Here are a few of the ones I liked the best.

Kids - Photos

A selection of my favourite photos of children I know:

Portraits & People - Photos

Some recent and older portraits and people photographs