Quotes for book

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you must stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's God's job to judge the terrorists... It's our mission to arrange the meeting" – U.S. Marines

“Who keeps not his arms in times of peace, will have no arms in times of war." – Gaelic Proverb

Different Kinds of Photography

Just something good to know... 

http://www.photography.com/articles/types-of-photography/types-of-photography/

Falling Behind

I am falling behind in blogging because I am doing work on my book!! I am trying to catch up on the artist of the week! Please bear with me!

Photographer Highlight: Beautiful Mess Photography

I am taking a break from NatGeo photographers for a bit. So, I googled "St. Louis photographers" and there are over 4,280,000 results that popped up. The first result under the ads, was Beautiful Mess Photography. I had never heard of them before this nor did I know that they are the Knots Best of Weddings 2013 pick.

According to Beautiful Mess Photography, their style is artistic storytelling. I can agree with that. After looking at their albums, you can see the personalities of the people that they shoot. My favorite collection is Matthew and April - WashU Student Catholic Center/Moulin Center. I feel like I was there and that I know the couple. BMP is someone that I am gonna start following.

 

 

One of my favorite photos from BMP

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulMessPhoto
• http://beautifulmessphoto.com/

Photographer Highlight: U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brien Aho

I found out about Petty Officer 1st Class Brien Aho when I was researching photographers for my book project. At first, I was not the drawn to his work but as my body of work starting forming into more portraits, I went back and looked at his portfolio again. It just sucks that I can't get into the field to shoot photographs of soldiers.

Petty Officer 1st Class Brien Aho is from Maryland and has won Military Photographer of the Year in multiple categories four years running. Right now, he is over seas. I can't wait to see his body of work when he gets back!

Links:

•  http://www.defense.gov/home/features/military_photographers/aho/

Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Lupinetti

Seaman Kevin Burns - U.S. Navy Airman

MV-22 Osprey Aircraft

Photographer Highlight: Sarah Leen

I came across Sarah Leen when I was going though my Pop's collection of National Geographic magazines. I saw the cover to August 2005 and fell in love with the photograph. I have always been a history nerd and the two gas pumps reminded me of gas pumps at the station when I was growing up. (Yes, I know that I am not that old but growing up in the country, we did not have fancy gas pumps but we had the cool ones that everyone wants to restore these days.)

Sarah Leen graduated from Mizzou's School of Journalism in 1979. Leen is a senior photo editor for National Geographic. She was worked for them for over 25 years. She teaches at the Missouri Photo Workshop, which is a photography program through Mizzou. I looked into the program and it is something that I believe would help me and my photography career. It brings some of the best photographers around to help America's youth.

I was able to find NatGeo's profile on fineartamerica.com and found her photo of a farmer disking in the field. It is by far my favorite photograph of hers.

She is someone that I will be watching closely and hopefully will meet her at MPW!

Links: 

• www.sarahleen.com
• http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/photographer-sarah-leen/?source=A-to-Z

Inside NatGeo's Layout Room

"A Farmer On A Tractor Disks The Soil" by Sarah Leen

Workflow Buzz Kill...

I love that all of the good abandoned buildings in St. Louis are getting or have been demolished... killing my workflow!

The people who demolished these building need to try being a photographer!! maybe then they will realize that St. Louis NEEDS those buildings!! it's a part of our history!!!

St. Louis City Hospital - http://www.builtstlouis.net/cityhospital-intro.html

 I wish that they would stop tearing away the history of St. Louis!!!!