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Commercial Juice America | كومرشل عسري امركا | Jugo Comercial Estados Unidos

New day, new entry blah blah blah... There isn't a current project or theme going on, so I'll post this photo from Noah's Bagel's in Culver City... taken before a photoshoot.... I like the colors and felt this conveys a sense of commercialism that we each see day in and day out, at our local super markets. The thing I find really hard is to put yourself in the mind frame of an outsider, the same mind frame you'd have photographing the life of people in another country on the other side of the world. It's easy to photograph the differences in your life from someone else. The hard thing is to find the interesting in your own.....

Nuevo dia, nuevo post... No estoy haciendo nada especial ahora y hora te presenta con un foto que tomo antes de un foto shoot. Gusto los colores y pienzo que la foto da una impression de comercial de los estados unidos. Pienso que es facil ha tomar fotos de culturas de otros lados pero es mas deficil ha encontrar algo que te presenta 'especial' en tu vida, lo tienes que buscarlo.

Alex & Rebecca Webb Lecture

These photos compose what reflects the lecture last night. My initial taste from the lecture last night was just that a 'lecture'. I think Alex and Rebecca's images were amazing.

Though it is not fair, nor am I in a position to judge Alex from just a one hour lecture, I get the typical American National Geographic Photographer feeling from him. What I mean is someone who travels to different countries with no particular reason or passion to be there, photographs the people who live there to bring back photos so all of us here in the U.S. can observe them in a sort of zoo manner.

Someone once told me never to write down anything negative, as it will come across ten times worse in the reader's eyes... well when you read it make sure you divide your negativity by 10 because that's the level this was written in. I love Alex's work, he is probably my favorite photographer, but I guess what I'm trying to say is the photographer is not the god I thought he was.

Alex brought up some interesting topics, particularly the idea of shooting not for anyone or any assignment, but for yourself. In other words shoot what you love, and market the photos after, rather than ask what should I shoot. Leave me your comments.