light/

Yesterday's post has me thinking about light. I guess every photographer has to be a little in love with it. Some love to create it, some to manipulate it and some just wait and utilize what is there. But being a photographer, or maybe just a lover of light, changes your view of the world. My friends will tell you, often times mid sentence I just stop talking because I have been captured by a wild reflection off a window, or the quality of light that is hidden behind a cloud. Maybe it is just being a visual person...I don't know. I freely admit I have no answers as to why some of us notice this stuff and some don't. I just know what is true for me. Light moves me...more specifically, natural light moves me. It is a fickle, seductive mistress at times but we have come to have a beautiful and deep relationship. My love for light makes my experience of the world deeper, more rooted in the ephemeral quality that is life itself.

PS - Sometimes I hear music and I feel it sounds like light somehow. This Bon Iver song sounds like dawn to me.

Have a great weekend, friends.

maria moyer/light

Yesterday I spent the day with Maria Moyer, photographing her home for my project on craftsmen (and women). One of my favorite things about working on my own projects is being able to take a bit of time with these people and shooting their space. You can't really get to know a space by just showing up and shooting it right away. Spaces, like people, have moods. They change with the light, with the season, with what is going on in the person's life. Yesterday, I was able to just watch the light in Maria's house as it bounced off walls and ebbed and flowed with the day (see the two shots today of the same room only a couple of hours apart). I love being able to watch light. It is how you get the most beautiful image. Patience. And the beauty of being able to go back a second (or third, fourth or fifth) day to see what mood the space is in is how you really reveal what a space is really like. And somehow, I think it reveals what the person that lives there is like as well.

isa, williamsburg

I think this is my favorite image from my shoot at Isa  a couple weeks ago. The attention to detail in this place is really inspiring. That AND the food is absolutely delicious. You should all try and stop by!

blunk residency/

The view from the jb blunk residency was amazing on friday. pure heaven.

jb blunk residency/peter maclean

Heading back to Inverness today to shoot the latest resident at the JB Blunk Artists Residency, Peter Maclean. I shot these a few weeks ago...I cannot wait to see what he has been doing for the past months! It is going to be a fun day!!!

isa, williamsburg

While I was in New York last week, I shot the new restaurant, Isa, in Williamsburg. It is such a joy to shoot such a beautiful space with so much meticulous attention to detail. This is just a quick shot I took on my phone so you can imagine how gorgeous the proper shots are.

bed stuy/brooklyn

While I was scouting locations for a portrait in Bed-Stuy I saw this and for some reason it made me happy. That razor wire is so vicious looking but nature just changed it.

Just arrived back in San Francisco to a shining sun and hopefully a little Indian summer heat!