Week #31

Summer At The Salon

This week, while making a visit to my local nail salon, I had the opportunity to take several pictures of Summer Lee as she worked her magic on my nails. Summer is a beautiful and talented young woman and I deeply appreciate her willingness to let me take multiple images of her while we were together. I hope these images capture her beauty and uniqueness. 

"Learning to identify the heart of your image and then isolate it is key to communicating clearly and compellingly."

David duChemin - Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision

Week #30

Reading on a Sunday Morning

"The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it with this wonderful democratic instrument, the camera."

Dorothea Lange

Week #29

Pictures From the Train Window

I traveled back from Sacramento this week on Amtrak. I find train travel enjoyable and I thought it would be interesting to shoot some pictures while I watched the world go by. The ride takes an hour from start to finish, passing through Davis where UC Davis can be found and Suisun, a little town on the delta. The scenery is a mix of farm and industrial, coexisting side by side. 

Week #28

Paper Abstract

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality.It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” 

― Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

Week #27

Waiting 

Hand

Watching You

While some people prefer to use their phones while they wait for a shopper, I prefer to get out my camera.