Obama As Muse

I'm so jealous of the photographers, and his daughter with the camera, who get to be around that iconic form, and rock star presence that is Obama. As the media has shown, and we all know, he's bigger than life...and damn it, I want to have my camera in there too! I want him as my muse, too.
Over my years of shooting, there are a few people in my life that I never tire of looking at, both in reality and through a lens....that spark a dance of spirit and creative possibilities. The images come forth, sometimes through perseverence of waiting and looking, sometimes in a flash of recognition, sometimes as a collaboration as both of us leap into the "zone" creating something combined. The experience of working with a muse is exquisite.

So how can I work with him...satisfy this longing?...... TV screens!

I'm not too sure about copyright laws on this, but it seems to me that pulling a 1/60th of a second from a video feed is more about appropriation than copying....I hope to hell that's the truth of it, anyway.

I need my fix.

THE LUXURY OF TIME

Being unememployed is certainly a major inconvenience when it comes to having money, but the one trade off of having my time is priceless. Not having to parcel creative time around committment to being somewhere for so many hours a week, has opened a precious space of unbound availability to wander around inside and out, shooting and working on images way into the quiet of night. Here are some of the results of last week's meanderings.