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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.

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

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.

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.

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…

Enjoy.

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.

See all the images here.