Yesterday I attended the National Park Service Women Life Guard Tournament. Although I was asked to go with the idea that it would be a nice opportunity for me to spend a day at the beach in Sandy Hook N.J. to enjoy the sun ,the water and watching pretty girls bathing in bikinis, I could not help but pick up my camera and become apart of the action. And action was what all these girls were about.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve finally launched a stock photo gallery. Now I don’t want you to think that I’m getting into the stock photo business cuzz I’m not. Ghetty and Corbis have that market already cornered. However, I call it that cuz I take a lot of photos. And I wanted to have a gallery where I could save them and use as a pool of creativity for me to sip from as well as serving a great number of other functions like people asking me if I can email them that random photo I took of them.
What is nice about this gallery is it will work along side this blog forever developing until my death or a fate worse. However, I have to say that it was a long internal debate as to how much I want to make this gallery public or regularly referred to. My main concern was, “do I really want everyone to have access to see photos that I’ve taken that would be considered bad from a professional photo aesthetic? I wouldn’t want to be seen as an amateur! As we all are lead to believe that a professional like Bruce Weber never shoots photos of his family that look like that of an ametuer.
This conflict is the bane of my professional existence… But this is a discussion for another blog post. But as I aspire to be a true iconoclast, I feel that trying to present myself and my work in the truest of manner is the best way to challenge the illusions that bind us to our conceptions in judgment.
I hope that you will enjoy clicking through the galleries.