Blog About Photography

Since I moved to New York, most of what I’ve been doing has noth­ing to do with pho­tog­ra­phy, which has been sort of lame. That’s not really a com­plaint though, so much as an obser­va­tion. I’m work­ing enough to live pretty com­fort­ably and there’s noth­ing wrong with that.  I also spent a lot of time hang­ing out with a girl I won’t be see­ing any more of and I sup­pose there’s noth­ing wrong with that, either.

The past cou­ple of days at work have been relax­ing and a nice change. My boss asked me to pho­to­graph her entire house, room by room. It’s a beau­ti­ful place, a four story brown­stone in Car­roll Gar­dens, with loads of light spilling in, all freshly ren­no­vated. Since she has this home and gar­den­ing show, all the fur­ni­ture, appli­ances, paint, bath­tubs, pots, pans, every­thing, were all donated by her spon­sors – it’s pretty unreal. So I’ve just spent 3 days with my head­phones in, behind my cam­era work­ing my way from the top floor down.

My love of pod­casts has been rekin­dled. I lis­ten to hours of pub­lic radio. But look­ing through arts related pod­casts to enrich the brain as I work I dis­cov­ered a photo his­tory pod­cast by a com­mu­nity col­lege pro­fes­sor in Illi­nois (I think). His entire spring semes­ter is there, and I’m pretty into it. It’s really fun to take in a class on a famil­iar sub­ject while I’m work­ing. The best part of it: since it’s the record­ing of the actual class ses­sions, you get to be as frus­trated with the, er, denser stu­dents as you were when you were actu­ally in school! What more could a work­ing per­son want?

Posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 4:11 pm