Tag: Daybook

  • February 27, 2016

    As I finished the last entry two days ago, I grabbed my iPad and got into the shower. Started the hot water and a film, Marshland. Started shaving. Then a text appeared on the screen – “Call me it’s urgent.” Immediate reaction – frustration. Another text appeared from a second person – “They want you…

  • February 25, 2016

    One obvious thing is that I’m not writing enough. I’m too busy moping, feeling isolated even as I work to isolate myself. .:. A couple people from the neighborhood came over and asked why we weren’t so involved in the neighborhood anymore. My son and I told them, and a couple days later the neighborhood…

  • January 30, 2016

    Yesterday I had a profound experience. I was the lucky one chosen to photograph the ceremony where a new Justice on the Utah Supreme Court was sworn in. I left the event feeling an overwhelming aura of positivity. My goal now is to build on that feeling and carry it with me. The speakers at…

  • January 27, 2016

    Sitting on the baseline with my Sony RX-100 iii. It draws a lot of questions from other photographers. The funny thing is, they never seem to get it. And even when I answer all their questions with, yes, it is good enough for a working pro, they tack on some bullsh*t requirements that no one’s…

  • January 25, 2016

    Texts sent while sitting in my car, waiting for the funeral of a slain police officer. Parked in front of me is a KSL NewsRadio vehicle that has been idling for 45 minutes, and probably won’t stop. + Here + Six shooters and we’ve got a mug online (an hour after funeral started) + It’s…

  • January 20, 2016

    It’s 420am and I’m awake in my hotel room. Outside it’s 24 degrees and there’s a fresh coat of icy snow on my car. I can see it from the window, parked next to the oil crew trucks. I’ve been awake for an hour, reading from the unending stash of magazine articles I keep saving…

  • January 8, 2016

    Been lurking on an old college friend’s husband’s twitter feed, studying the pattern of posts. + Idaho. + Immunizations cause autism. + Car insurance is wrong – using the public highways is simply a risk to be taken. + Oregon standoff guys are being setup by federal provocateurs. + You should be able to carry…

  • January 7, 2016

    I got an e-mail yesterday, automatically sent from a WordPress site I set up a year ago and forgot about. Curious, I went to the site and realized that it was a photo gallery site that was a nearly exact copy of one the same client had asked me to build two months ago. And…

  • January 4, 2016

    My bookcase is next to the dinner table. At dinner, someone heading to Rwanda asks what books they should read. This is my cue, and I start pulling titled from the shelves. Well, Philip’s book is the go-to. It’s quite good. Fergal’s book is also here. Elizabeth’s book is my favorite, may she rest in…

  • I’m thinking about this you go to do…

    I’m thinking about this – you go to do something great, but you film the setup and how it was done. why not let the art or result stand by itself. I’m glad I never did a how-to on the John Stockton composite. It stands alone.

  • It’s funny how today mediocrity won No it’s…

    It’s funny how today mediocrity won. No, it’s actually not funny. The assignment wasn’t one that was going to lead to some amazing award-winning frame. (And I’m not going to post a photo or talk about what it was— what you imagine may be better or worse.) But I stood out there for an hour…

  • The other big project that I’m in the…

    The other big project that I’m in the middle of is backing my entire photo archive up to the cloud. We’re talking bout 600 gigabytes of selects at full resolution, ENCRYPTED, to Amazon’s new Glacier cloud service. It’s going to cost $6 a month to host it. Can’t be beat. Only problem is uploading 600…

  • part of my 2013 goals is to go…

    part of my 2013 goals is to go big. do things that take a little extra work, slow down and focus on making better work, no more snapshots, etc. I want to do things that are great. one thing I’ve done is my geotagging project. I’ve been wanting to geotag my archive for a while…

  • January 7, 2011

    Assignment: CLASSIFIED, then canceled .:. Jury Duty: canceled .:. Got five discs from Netflix today. Three of them. .:. Went to see Black Swan with friends G&H, or H&G. It’s weird, G&H sounds better with the initials but if you are saying their names it’s better as H&G. Two rows ahead of me was one…

  • January 6, 2011

    A fascinating story in Vanity Fair on Julian Assange and Wikileaks and the Guardian and ethics in journalism. Here’s the gist: Assange’s position was rife with ironies. An unwavering advocate of full, unfettered disclosure of primary-source material, Assange was now seeking to keep highly sensitive information from reaching a broader audience. He had become the…

  • January 5, 2011

    I’ve spent most of the day editing photos. Flood, football, rodeo, more football. Lots of catching up to do so I can put everything from 2010 together for contests. .:. Today’s media: No time really. A little bit of Crackdown 2. And I almost started The Ricky Gervais Show. Karl Pilkington: amazing. And you know…

  • January 4, 2011

    Assignment – shooting. According to the cops, they’re chasing a guy who drives into a ditch, runs, and pulls a gun. They shoot and kill him. It’s the first time I’ve taken a photograph in Hooper, Utah. Assignment – barn fire. .:. Finished the film A Single Man. Great. Started watching Jersey Shore Season 2.…

  • January 3, 2011

    Morning came way too early today. I was exhausted getting everyone off to school. Maybe exhaustion is the perfect mental state for editing photos, because you don’t have any patience for the mediocre images that crowd your archive. When you’re exhausted you just want one thing: Sleep. Can’t. Soon everyone has left except me and…

  • January 2, 2011

    We were trying to think of a way to deface the church program. I said, “We could draw that famous photo of Bigfoot in the background.” “What famous photo of Bigfoot?” my son asked. “You know, the one that turned out to be a fake,” I said. “Of course it’s a fake,” he said. It…

  • January 1, 2011

    I’m just sitting here looking at the dashboard of a website that is supposed to be finished in a matter of hours. It’s basically done but I’m not sure. It’s going to be used by journalists all over the state and some will be computer illiterate. That’s the challenge. And like many projects I seem…