Beethoven Portrait

I spend most of my time in the studio shooting objects.  It was nice to shoot a portrait for once. Beethoven bust by Frank Kozik.  

Product Photography

When it's art it's called still life, when it's commercial it's called product photography. 

Frcc The Peple!!!???

I was out walking the dog yesterday when I came across this.  I know what it's trying to tell me to do but all it's making me want to do is pay close attention to my son's education.  

Noise

This is my second post in a row without an image.  For what I wanted to be a "photoblog" I'm failing miserably.  I was just reading through the new PDN and I'm quite dismayed to say the least.  I thumbed through the whole issue and to be honest it was nothing but noise.  Nothing of substance, just noise, like you're not getting a signal on an old tv (new tv's have a nice calming blue screen).  Since when did photography become such a grey noise?  PDN is the industry magazine more or less and it covers many of the issues of the photo industry and it's many changes.  The current issue is "The editorial & photojournalism issue"(they like to have themed issues).  They flaunt such articles such as "The photojournalism market: a survival guide", "Editorial work that lands advertising jobs", "A day in the life: Online photo editors", etc.  I've been a part of the photography profession for 20 years in one form or another, I've followed all the major trends, I've even bought into a some of them now and again.  I've even fallen out of love with photography which had me flirting with the motion picture industry.  Sometimes I feel like photography is losing itself in the rush of technology.  Whatever happened to taking photos?  Does every job or assignment have to server to sole purpose or leading to the next job or assignment?  Where is the art?  Where is the message?  Has it all become an advertisement?  Are our images serving the sole purpose of advertising our abilities so that we can land the next big JOB?  What has happened to our art?  our vision?  Is it nothing but noise?