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Another exciting week
From Saturday, here’s my neighborhood Jeff and his kids Marcus and Monica in line to get Obama tickets for his Monday speech here in Lancaster…
And then how about some pretty flowers from the Boas’ nursery on Columbia Avenue (it is officially spring now)…
I’ll be out with the Mayor and Senator Obama tomorrow morning. I’ll be sure to post something from that shoot here later on. Then it’s off to Reading to see the world’s greatest bass player, Michael Manring, at the Reading Jazz Festival Monday evening. When I worked for BMG in San Francisco I had the pleasure to work Michael’s records and get to know him. Michael and guitarist David Cullen are playing their annual show together during the Festival. It’s a great show in a tiny little club at the Reading Sheraton. If you’re in the area, check it out.
Back from the past
So what I have been doing lately? Here’s a quick roundup.
On the 15th I shot the LCPJ peace rally. Here’s one of the shots I like a lot.
Later that evening there was a candlelight vigil at the courthouse. Here’s one shot from that set.
On the 18th I shot at a ceremony at Musser Park introducing the new lighting system they’ve installed. It’s really a beautiful in-ground system of lighting that illuminates the tree branches in the most surreal way. I’m curious to see what happens this summer once the trees get leaves. It will totally change the look.
On the 19th my good friend from the City got press access for me at the Hillary Clinton rally at Millersville University. It was the first time I’ve shot something political at that level. It was interesting. The similarities between shooting something like that and shooting a major musical artist were almost non-existent.
On the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war there was another candlelight vigil at the courthouse. Here is one of the shots from that.
The nice folks from Building Character hosted the monthly Creative House of Lancaster meeting. I stopped in an shot a few frames. It’s a wonderful space and filled with interesting things to photograph.
This past Wednesday I shot some images at a roll out meeting for a program I’m the designer for. Here’s one shot from that.
Yesterday afternoon the Sertoma Club of Lancaster held the media lunch for this year’s “World’s Largest Chicken Barbecue”. Here’s a totally unrelated shot from that lunch but a shot I really love.
By the way, I’ll be chronicling the entire event this year spending about thirty hours shooting and posting from it. It’s ana amazing, almost difficult to describe event from a visual perspective. If you haven’t seen the shots from last year’s barbecue, check them out. I’m very proud of them.
And then last night there was an excellent public forum on immigration policy hosted by the ACLU and the LCPJ. No matter what anyone says, the ugliest lighting in the city is in the City Council Chambers at Southern Market. Great forum though.
And then this coming weekend I’ll be shooting the annual convention of one of the most influential political websites in Philadelphia. I’ll be posting those shots as regularly as wireless access and time allows. It starts Friday evening and runs through Sunday. I’ll be there Friday night and following the entire schedule all and evening Saturday.
On the way
I just finished all the post processing on the shots from the vigil this evening. It’s 11:15. The upload from this afternoon’s shots of the rally are still uploading. Seven hours and counting… Almost done. 1.49 gigs of shots (210 in all).
For those of visiting this evening I would guess that by 11:45 all the afternoon shots will be uploaded. I’ll begin the evening shots immediately thereafter.
You can view new images in the gallery as they upload but you’ll have to hit refresh on the main gallery page. Bear in mind it’s taking about two minutes for each image to upload so I don’t necessarily recommend that strategy.
Thanks for coming by.
No more on the events of today other than to say it was an amazing experience. I’ll have a lot more to say later.
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Ok, I was way off on the time. It’s 12:48 and the last eight images of the afternoon are now uploading. I will start the vigil images as soon as those last eight are done.
Whenever that is.
By the way, click here to visit the march and rally image gallery.
Rough work
This is a brief, rough version of a video I’m putting together for the Mayor’s Office Of Special Events featuring their events from last year. All of the photography is mine.
I’ll repost this when I have the final version of the long and short form videos.
Enjoy!
Just some junk
Any wonder why I love junk?
Shot last Friday morning…
You can see the entire gallery of 18 images here.
It’s not the camera
Some my older shots of watches. These were all taken with a camera that Nikon describes as a “prosumer” camera which is a nice way to say, “consumer camera with some cool features.” Basic 3meg JPGs and in each case what makes them stand out, aside from some cool watches, is the lighting. The best thing about lighting, it’s free to anyone with a camera. All you have to do is meet is at least meet it halfway and try, if not to control it, to harness it towards your goal.
My point is that it doesn’t matter what the object is to be photographed. Sure, it helps if it’s a magnificent edifice or a famous person but failing that you can still do magic with everyday, ordinary things. It’s in the approach to the item. Sometimes a straightforward illustrative take on a visual is the right thing to do. Sometimes the right thing to do is to force your viewer to look at the hidden, intrinsic qualities of an object.
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russell g. frost
37 north mulberry street
lancaster, pa 17603-3740
717.341.9132
russell@frostimaging.com