A week in the life

Here’s what I’ve been doing for the last week.

First Friday, a shot from Gallery 141…
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The second wedding I’ve shot in two decades (I don’t shoot weddings, this was an exception for a very good friend)…
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Team WeeBee racing at Lanco…
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Equal rights rally…
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Kids visiting the Lancaster Museum of Art’s Maurice Sendak exhibit…
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A shot from a lunch promoting the Convention Center where a video that I made from my images of Lancaster was shown…
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Artistry In Motion vintage car show…
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YWCA’s Race Against Racism…
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McCaskey High School Senior art show at Building Character (which, by the way, was a wonderful show)…
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Vintage Datsun 1600 being worked on at WeeBee Audio/Video…
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Shooting a TV commercial at WeeBee Audio/Video (Watch Blue Ridge cable, channel 11, Sunday’s at 3:00 p.m. to see the commercial)…
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That’s a busy week.

Two things stand out here.

One, I love my work. Look at what I get to do.

Second, Lancaster is an amazing place. The variety of things to do in any given week is simply astounding. The beautiful surroundings, the friendly people. I love my city.

Today I’m working on a jewelry catalog and web site, a catalog for a racing products manufacturer and work for the rest of the my regular clients.

And, as Linda Ellerbee used to say, so it goes…

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under client news, company news, gallery news, new in the Flickr Gallery, new work, news, personal | Leave a Comment 

The war on photographers

Just latest in a series of examples of how we are wasting millions of dollars in security theater and not protecting the country.

Tourist or Terrorist?
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI teach people to spot potential terrorists.
BY BIANCA PHILLIPS | APRIL 3, 2008

Elvis fan or al-Qaeda operative? You make the call.

A man walking through Tom Lee Park pauses to snap a photo of the iconic Hernando DeSoto Bridge. Another man shoots pictures of numerous downtown buildings.

Many would assume the men are tourists taking in the city’s sights, but law enforcement officials say they could be terrorists staking out possible targets.

The scenarios were described at an anti-terrorism town hall meeting last week hosted by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office. The meeting, held at Cordova’s First Assembly of God Church, was one of four public meetings that occurred in conjunction with Operation Sudden Impact, a new local anti-terrorism initiative.

“You may think a guy is just shooting pictures, but if you report it to us, we’ll send it on to the FBI and they may have four or five other reports of the same thing,” said Richard Pillsbury with the Tennessee Fusion Center, a collaboration between the Department of Safety and the Department of Homeland Security.

Shelby County sergeant Larry Allen warned attendees at the meeting to look for people who appear to be doing surveillance outside public buildings, such as shopping malls.

Read the whole tawdry piece here.

April 30, 2008 | Filed Under news | Leave a Comment