The Great Scott

One of the best parts of my job is knowing that I’ve given images to a client that they’ve never expected. Because I love that moment so much it is not unusual for me to prime clients with a slightly lower expectation that what I know I can deliver (I know, a bad idea). So I listen to the needs they describe and then tell them where there will be trouble meeting those needs (if any) maybe make a few extra suggestions on how we could improve even more on those ideas and then strive to blow their minds with the final images. Of course after hiring me a few times that surprise goes away but when someone comes who just needs photos once it is my chance to do this all over again. It makes being a photographer worthwhile for me. A week ago I photographed Scott. He needed a collection of portraits for print and online usage (all personal). Scott was a great sport and really trusted me. I knew we had some really awesome photos that day and with his permission, here is one of my favorites:

Wallpaper Wednesday

There was almost no internet where I was this week. Considering that remember, there are only so many emails you can respond to while typing on your phone (sweet, sweet, computer keyboard… I’ve missed you). So only getting to the few emails that couldn’t possibly wait I’ve been catching up all afternoon. North Carolina in June is beautiful, but you’ll have to wait till next week to see some of it. I just don’t have any shots I can have ready in time for today’s wallpaper. So instead, here is a shot from a few trips ago of the California coastline (you could pretend that lighthouse is on the Outer Banks if you like). Enjoy!

Wallpaper Wednesday

 

Can you guess what this weeks wallpaper is? I’ll give you a hint, you’ll probably by enjoying a few of them over the Memorial Day weekend festivities…. Bottoms up!

Wallpaper Wednesday

On Thursday, after I didn’t have time to put one up last week too. So I get an “F” at Wallpapers this month. Maybe your November is too busy also and you haven’t noticed. Or maybe you loved the Sedona, AZ wallpaper so much that you were happy to get it for an extra week. Well, I’m flattered. Here is another one for you to enjoy since you enjoyed the last one so much.

Share worthy.

Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1/6)

From The Online Photographers post yesterday, this was too good to not share (thanks to Dana for sending it along to me).

We have a new winner in the “$12 Million Shark Sweepstakes.” In a smack down of the piker owner of the paltry $3.89 million Cindy Sherman picture that held the record for mere months (since May), a German collector sold one of six copies of Andreas Gursky’s 1999 work “Rhein II” at Christie’s yesterday for $4,338,500 (including buyer’s premium).

And by the way, it’s a Photoshopped pic—there were elements in the scene Gursky didn’t like, so, in his words, “I decided to digitalize the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me.”* (A. Gursky quoted in A. Ltgens, “Shrines and Ornaments: A Look into the Display Cabinet,” Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1994–1998, p. xvi). “Like the painter, Gursky constructs his composition, removing all small arbitrary details interrupting his clean horizon.” (Peter Galassi, MoMA.)

It’s now the most expensive photograph ever. Of course, the clock is ticking—for how many months will this record last? Be afraid, Herr G., be very afraid….

—Mike, who’s definitely in the wrong end of this business
(Thanks to Howard French)”

Can I just say there is something to be said for a digital, photoshopped, unarchival image setting the record for highest price ever paid for a photograph? Imagine what a photo that would last more than 50 years would bring in!

The comments were hilarious, here are a few of my favorites:

Featured Comment by Jenny: “The level to which I don’t understand things has been brought to a record height.”

Featured Comment by Will Whitaker: “Gursky who?? Nevermind.

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