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Thoughts on Turkey.
I flew in to Ataturk International Airport, arriving at 11:30pm on May 20. I slept in the airport which was surprisingly not as bad as I thought.
Turkey. How the hell did I get to Turkey? I really have no idea what I was doing here. Istanbul sounded like a cool place… Honestly, I didn’t really put much thought into going to Turkey, I kinda just showed up. But as luck would have it, my friend from Syracuse, Beatrice, is finishing up her semester abroad there right now. She met me as I got off the bus from the airport and took me out to an authentic local breakfast place.
Turkey is a little behind the times. As we sat there eating some weird goat cheese thing (that’s the technical term), an overbearing loudspeaker came on. And not a loudspeaker in the restaurant. A loudspeaker over the whole city. A man speaking in Arabic calling for prayer. I look out the window and see men rushing and running to the nearby mosque to wash their feet in a foot-sink thingy (also a technical term) and then inside the mosque to pray. Now apparently this happens multiple times a day.
It was very weird. We happen to walk by a different mosque later that day and decide to peak inside. We were in there looking around, Beatrice in her fancy headscarf, provided by the front door man, and we’re both barefoot. Of course this would be the time when the loudspeaker comes on, calling for prayer. The men start flooding in, some in sweat pants, others in fancy suits, to pray. We stayed to watch for a little while (technically we were allowed to be there) but left shortly thereafter.
On a positive note though, the world is flat, thanks to the Internet. I posted on Facebook that I was going to be in Istanbul and a friend from high school messaged me saying she had an alumni event in Istanbul at the same time. I found myself on a fancy dinner cruise on the Bosphorus River hanging out with an old high school friend and some really cool people.
Basic networking, fast forward to the end of the night, I made a new photographer friend who lives in a Switzerland, and offered to let me crash at her place when I go to Switzerland later this summer. Boom. One Facebook post. Now that’s cool.
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spent a wonderful Saturday morning photographing several very talented dancers...this one was one of my favorites. Used mainly a two light studio set-up with reflectors.
love muse, was first hooked with plug in baby, thought how it would be great if you could plug in. then took it a step further with pluging in wirelessly to download your thoughts, or upload.
technology will be there one day... to boldy go where no one has gone before!
"Mischievous Thoughts"
Settings: 50mm and 1/3200 at f/1.8 (ISO 400)
Featuring: Jen Gewin (MM #2834134)
This is the first close up that I'm posting from my photo shoot with Jen Gewin in St. Louis' Forest Park. I like how you don't quite know what she's thinking, but it's almost definitely going to cause trouble.
Post processing work is fairly straight forward to keep the natural feel of the piece. My challenge came in the white/color balance and giving the right amount of warmth versus causing her skin to look too yellow. Finally landed on a balance when I slightly lowered saturation while increasing vibrance to keep the image from looking dull. A medium vignette was added (a bit stronger than I normally use) to fully force visual attention to her face in the center of the image.
If I thought we were going to put it up. The sad thing is, it would be a rockin' raised garden bed, but it's just too shady over there.
My wife, Shantonu. Lost in her thoughts.....
On the top of the Horsetooth mountain, Fort Collins, CO.
The other days I heard someone say that they were in a good mood until something happened. I have heard this comment before. And I can recall that I have had similar thoughts.
But the simple truth is that external events and people have as much power over us as we allow them to.
Made it for a music assignment for college... The music (Kygo, tropical house) always makes my thoughts drift away so this is what i came up with. I should've put headphones on but didn't have them.
Shot in Mastbos Breda, NL.