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See more of my work
1 year ago
I’ve put together some video compilations of work, organized by theme, check them out here.
Getting an iPad?
1 year ago
I’ve created a series of some of my favorite images and photographs that I think would make a great desktop for the new iPad. You can browse the gallery here: http://frostimaging.smugmug.com/Best-of/iPad-desktops/11708788_XfSwp
Each image is only $1. Please drop me an email if you want one (or more). The automated sales in the gallery are not yet priced correctly.
Want a photograph of mine for your desktop but you don’t see it in the gallery? Drop me a line and let me know. Chances are I’ll be happy to resize and offer it.
And enjoy your new iPad!
What’s new?
2 years ago
What isn’t would be the better question. I’ve been all over the place as the spring thaw continues.
There’s been a flurry of year end activity at Millersville University.
Here’s Vyner Award winner , Nate Sheffer playing the Jazz & Java event at MU.
And here’s Dr. Keith Wiley conducting the ensemble.
There’s a ton of new MU work, you can see it all here in the Millersville main gallery.
My good friend Jason Mundok held his first in a series of home concerts dubbed, The Wood Stove Concerts. They are amazing events and redefine the artist’s relationship with the audience (and the music is stellar to say the least). Here’s one shot of Jason and his ensemble, Living Fables.
Here’s something I don’t do very often, basic portraiture. Below is a shot from a set done for the girl’s first communion. I should do more of this stuff, it was a lot of fun.
A shot from a set of this year’s YWCA Race Against Racism.
A did a lot of shooting surrounding the Launch Music Conference. Here is one shot from a late night show at the Chameleon.
The best way to keep up on what I’m doing?
Drop me a line and ask. Or follow me on Twitter or check out the Facebook page. I’ll post updates once in awhile but I do most of the updating at Twitter.
Flickr
3 years ago
I’ve taken the Flickr galleries down. After two years, hundreds of business cards and a handful of replies I’ve come to the conclusion that open source/creative commons, at least as it might apply to photographers does not work. If you are a friend or a client and you already have a Flickr log-in, the galleries will function as before. If not, please contact me directly to gain access.
In the last three years I’ve uploaded more than 47,000 images (47,075 as of this morning). Some 39,000 people have viewed at least one of those images at some point. As I mentioned above, it’s unusual that I don’t hand out a card or two (or more) at every event I shoot at and ask the people to email me. The net result from all those cards, three emails in the last two years. And so ends the publicly available galleries.
I had genuine and probably naively hoped that the paradigm other than that of the photographer hiding away their work and locking it up except to paying customers would work. I had hoped and earnestly believed that if more people had access to the work it would at least generate some personal interest. I was wrong. And if the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expected different results then at least that adjective cannot be applied to me…any longer.
Thanks for visiting and once again, if you a friend or a client and you cannot access the galleries, please drop me a line. I’ll make sure you can see the images as before.
Looking forward, the Flickr galleries will go away, to everyone, on January 29th. I’m still looking for a suitable successor. At this point it looks like Smugmug. At one time Flickr was a wonderful tool to make things simpler to see online. Now it takes extra time to manage, I’m constantly blocking off people who are cruising for bizarre porn or just anonymous people with no work of their own. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this change may cause and I only do it in hopes I can continue to do what I do best, which is take pictures.
Thank you.
-russell
Different work
3 years ago
It’s interesting how my work seems to run in cycles. There will be weeks when I’ll do nothing but photography and then times when I’m dying to get out and shoot because I’ve been chained to the computer to design work. And for the record, I’m always dying to shoot. As much as I love the marketing and design end of the business, I’m happiest with camera in hand. Nonetheless, the last two weeks has had me deep into half a dozen design projects. I can’t mention them or show them here, yet, but I will once they are closer to completion.
For now, let’s get caught up on the photography end of things.
I’m doing some design work for JSID part of which had me shooting images of their new office. Here is a photoshopped version of one shot of that building I did just for fun.
Lydia Brubaker from the Seventh Sister Theater Company is holding a summer acting camp and F&M and I’ll be stopping there to shoot the progress of the class. It’s wonderful to watch as I have some small and indirect connection with some of the theater games she’s employed in the course. Her students all seem very enthusiastic and have been quite nice. Here are a few shots from the first installment of that project.
And finally, F&M hired me to shoot portraits of one of their professors, geology and Earth Sciences Professor Carol De Wet. Being a Geologist she’s a rock star in my world (since i was kid I’ve had this obsession with geology). She was an utter delight to chat with and I’m really proud of the shots. I think F&M is happy as well which is the best possible result. Here are a couple of my faves from that session.
I’ve been so busy working
3 years ago
I haven’t spent any time here talking about it.
So, starting from right after the Sertoma BBQ, here is quick wrap up of the last two weeks.
If you click on the link in the intro to each image, you can view the entire gallery from which that image came.
One shot from the 27th Annual Fiesta (a fantastic party by the way).
Ricky Calderon, owner of Club Rumbha was kind enough to invites me in to shoot some images for a project for the City. Club Rumbha is a great little club and if you want to do some Salsa, it’s the place. From what I understand, Ricky even offers to teach beginners some steps.
I just started a new project for JSID focused on one Northeastern Lancaster neighborhood. There’ll be a lot more in this set soon.
Velaska Jewelry is a new client and I’m working on a bunch of different things for owner, Kathryn Pearce. These are just some initial tests. We’re working on defining a style and then I’ll be shooting a good representation of her many designs.
I managed to wake up early enough to catch some shots at this year’s Red Rose Run.
Last Saturday’s 300 North Queen Street Block Party was fun. Here’s one of my favorite shots.
One of my favorite things about Lancaster is the Lancaster Police Mounted Patrol. I’ve been lucky to befriend two of the officers and they’re always good for a great shot when they are out on duty. I stopped by the paddock a few days ago to see what’s new and check on one of the horses, Zeke (below) who has literally come back from death’s door and is now back on duty with Officer Wayne McVey. We’re all really glad Zeke and Officer McVey are back to work.
Most recently, as part of that new JSID project I mentioned above I got to shoot inside Grace Lutheran Church. It’s a beautiful church. Here are just a few of the great images I managed grab in a mere half hour inside.
A week in the life
3 years ago
Here’s what I’ve been doing for the last week.
First Friday, a shot from Gallery 141…
The second wedding I’ve shot in two decades (I don’t shoot weddings, this was an exception for a very good friend)…
Team WeeBee racing at Lanco…
Equal rights rally…
Kids visiting the Lancaster Museum of Art’s Maurice Sendak exhibit…
A shot from a lunch promoting the Convention Center where a video that I made from my images of Lancaster was shown…
Artistry In Motion vintage car show…
YWCA’s Race Against Racism…
McCaskey High School Senior art show at Building Character (which, by the way, was a wonderful show)…
Vintage Datsun 1600 being worked on at WeeBee Audio/Video…
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)…
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…
Product work
03 years ago
I’ve just finished some for work LPW Racing shooting one of their parts lines. Some samples from that shoot are below and without wallowing (too much) in self-congratulatory blather, I’m really happy with them. I love doing product work. As much as I enjoy event work, it’s really nice to be able to inhabit my own little world and have the pleasure of the extra time to craft images that really pop. Obviously the background on these are dropped in as is the shadow. I could certainly shoot these with a blue background and create a shadow but the sort of hyper-surreality of the pure background and Photoshop shadowing is much stronger.
Enjoy.
