Fire

I’ll admit it, I am an incurable carnie. I love circuses and performing and being that weird guy who juggles for no reason. I do a lot of photography of flowers and mushrooms, but if there is one subject I find the most fascinating, the most alive and dynamic, it is fire. I have harbored a healthy fascination and respect for fire for as long as I can remember, and good photography locks the liquid properties of fire for everyone to appreciate.  I’ve followed Tom Lacoste on DeviantArt for years, before he quit DA earlier last year. I tracked his work down to a flicker account for everyone to enjoy. The pictures below link to different sections, click on his name to see the full set.

Daniel Golston

More on young, local talent. I grew up with Daniel – we were even ‘boyfriend & girlfriend’ in the fourth grade. To his dismay, I dumped him on the playground. The story has a happy ending though – as it turned out he likes boys, so we’ve settled on ‘besties’.

Daniel is studying fashion photography at the School of Visual Concepts in NYC, but he’s a globe-trotter in his off time. His travel photography is worth taking a look at. Enjoy!

inspiration

I checked out Danielle Tunstall’s work…woah. I liked how looking through her work there were alot of recurring themes and visual elements that gave her work a very cohesive feel, her style becomes very recognizable. I would imagine that is very important for a professional photographer…any artist of that matter strives, I think, to develop his/her personal artistic style so they may become identifiable in the art world. I also enjoyed her use of special effects (particularly demonstrated in the video on her website) to add to the gritty and age-worn feel of her work. What I was most attracted to in her body of work was her black and white portrait (perhaps because we are working in B & W and I am always drawn to faces). I liked the way she was able to capture such contrast in her B & W portraits…in the close-up portrait of the young boy, you can see and imagine the feel of each freckle that marks his face. There is also a gritty aspect to her B & W work. How is that achieved and controlled? I would love to try and capture the grit of life in my B & W work (particularly portraits).