This is it…VEGAS BABY!!! It’s Photoshop World time, by the time you are reading this I will be in the air somewhere over the midwest and headed to the desert heat. Blog will be light this week, I will try to post to it when I can but I didnt have time to set up posts ahead of time.
Welcome to St. Anthony’s Feast as I test some mobile blogging. It’s gonna be a little hard typing a blog post on an iPhone but I hope to use this series as a sort of live from the event behind the scenes photo type of post. So after a brief intro don’t expect loads of text just photos. If today’s post works be on the lookout for some more of these this week for las vegas and the surrounding deserts.
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T-minus 2 days! I am outta here Monday, desert bound for Photoshop World Las Vegas. Why not end the week with a little bit of old Vegas. Sprinkled in with all the glamor of the new mega resorts is a little bit of the glitz of the old school. At a time when the old hotels are starting to seem out of place with the new themed resorts and they are feeling run down, the Flamingo manages to stay classy. You will see as many people staring and taking pictures of all this neon as you will people checking out the fountains at the Bellagio.
A reminder this weekend is the last major feast of the season in the North End. The Feast of St. Anthony on Endicott and Thatcher Streets (around Pizzeria Regina). Come find me marching along with the Procession of the Statue, not sure if I will be making it for the entire 10 hours of scheduled procession but I will be there for a large chunk of the day.
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I’ll admit it. I am one of those people that loves good street food when visiting places and right here in my own city. Whether a Italian Sausage here or hot dog in NYC or something else from a far away land you can always get some real culture in a new place by partaking in this past time. I know I am not alone, I have many friends that when traveling abroad feel safer eating street food with the locals then going into some restaurants, just stay away from the fried scorpions on a stick!
The blog may be a little light on content over the next week or so as I am getting ready to head out to Photoshop World in Las Vegas. I am going to try a new series called “On Location:” with mainly photos and some brief text from my iphone. Look for a test on Saturday and/or Sunday. If anyone is looking for things to get me for Christmas, (it’s never too early to look), Canon just announced a brand new lens the EF 8-15mm f/4L series fisheye zoom lens. It would make a nice addition to my bag. hint hint
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Today we look at a more recent photo for From the Vault, if you are here in Boston, you are well aware we are on day 3 of monsoon like rains. I guess we can’t complain though we basically had nothing but sunshine all summer so its time for a little gloom. But I love rainy weather, it actually makes me happy seeing everyone else so miserable! I just put on my rain gear and go sloshing through puddles like a 5 year old with out a care in the world. Even my camera has its own legit rain cover now, thank you Think Tank!!!
I love taking images like this. They aren’t about perfect exposures, or being tack sharp. They are about capturing a feeling, motion, emotion. When taking these types of photos, I don’t stop to compose and capture a perfect frame, its total run and gun. What transpires is that the motion in the frame is not only the motion of the people and the traffic, but it’s also my motion. To me that makes the photograph as much about you as it is about whats in the frame. There is literally a piece of you in it, not just the metaphorical soul or passion, but your physical movements are contributing to the success or failure of the photo. And that’s the thing they don’t always work, but when they do, it makes it all worth the effort.
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