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Yet, again, unlike anything else out there – Northern Rockies: the ancient ocean, the glaciers, the Earth! Inspiration is served on large and small scale. Venus’ slipper or Calypso orchid, Calypso bulbosa More to come …
Tail of summer teases us with fresh parfait, a layer per actual month – strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry. As warm sun melts away holidays, blasting studio photons liquify ice-cream and make it disappear. But the food stylist does her magic and our summer in a glass never melts & stays with us ! More [...]
Even if you never tasted gazpacho, I’m sure that you must have heard about this chilly and delicious tomato infusion from Andalusia. Here’s a challenge. Gazpacho (Gaspacho) has a cousin clear across Europe. On a very hot summer day, the coveted cooling effect is the only thing these two dishes have in common. First of [...]
I promise, this time, no herring inside a hotdog bun. What can be more proper than London’s Tower Bridge under properly blue skies with white clouds?! If the bridge seems too square, symmetric, and parallel, let’s spin it a little bit. Literally, with a very big wheel. More to come …
Milk has many incarnations; cheese is one them, “milky way” is another. There are also places out there that can be called “milky countries”. Russia, for example, is among such lands. Unlike that old stale stigma referring to “fire water”, in reality, milk and bread are this country’s serious devotion. It is not a surprise [...]
Here it is; raw herring is meeting a hotdog bun. Onions and pickles add zest and impression. Simply irresistible, Yumm! More to come …
Start with dessert as often as possible. The completed results have been deposited safely. All according to laws of gravity. Moving on to the next course. Ah, onion soup. Yes, it’s not only breakfast that tastes great in PDX. Bakeries loaded with fresh baguettes, i mean f-r-e-s-h, my dear brasserie de l’Alma. No yesterday’s loaves [...]
Louis IX was clueless about granite rocks of Eastern Sierra Nevada. Though, he left his many footprints on these sets of stones. Thinking about historic events of some 7+ centuries that followed Louis’ first steps between undoubtedly breath-taking Sainte Chapelle and Notre Dame, i wonder whether more Sierras could prove beneficial for the next 760 [...]
Into the New 2011 with an oldest among living terrestrials – Bristlecone pines of the Eastern Sierras. They have seen the stars and unmerciful suns, way up there. In bristle-years, Grand Central is a newer structure; actually, it is totally new. Even with its painted skies, stars and electron suns, GC is as mesmerizing as [...]
This one is from the group of universal languages. Music, sports, and the language of architecture. I remember dragging feet behind my parents on architectural excursions… A guide followed by twenty-thrirty grown-ups dressed in light summer clothes looking lost and at times quite silly-funny. Growing better, after another travel “to the galaxies far away”, i’m [...]
Summer accentuates highlights. Southern summer punches them intensely as the sun rolls up above the horizon in a blink of an eye. Rendering tartelette crème pâtissière au citron avec de la crème fouettée on white plate, starchy tablecloth of the same group of hues, outdoors. Adjusting, reinventing, and moving fast. Northern summer smears highlights over twenty-hour [...]
Three weeks, no see. Do not touch buttons; especially when they come as software updates. Yep, three weeks p….. to the latest and greatest. At last, after book pros, ipads, ishmats, isubs, finally, back to my libraries. Unflagged the “faces” option, except for that one, above. Pretty self-expalanatory, — APPLE. Now, definitely more to come [...]
Left camera on a set and went free without strings. Ate and drunk. Got open face salmon from Seattle on rye bread with crème fraîche; put square white plate next to window. No studio light is the light, the genuine photon that worked its way to get here-there. Reflected, bounced of another light, made more [...]
Experiencing a special sea cruise: way up north, all the way across Pacific and to the left – Sea of Okhotsk. Nine points storms completely fulfill my “salty sea-dog” experience. The land is just within two-day reach and endless voids of water and air bring new rationalization to a sense of confined places. Finally comes [...]
Once a year these three things do make sense when mentioned together. Winter holidays bring smells of tangerines and late summer apples into my home. They also bring happy memories of winter school breaks — the time when kids are allowed to build their own daily schedules, though to the extend… Snow has made another [...]
or any other day of the week when looking at the schedule seems like this – – anyway, very close. More to come …
Northwest is under Arctic snap. Clear skies from sunrise to sunrise; the photography eldorado: sun, clouds, stratosphere, moon, stars, constellations. Portland, Oregon has bundled up — scarfs, mittens on Portlanders, winter tires on bikes, and layers of de-icer on streets. Outta PDX is crispier and starrier. It’s good to stay indoors though, even after rapid [...]
Spent time finding and staying at places with views. Circled above Mt. Shasta for half hour while listening to the crew and an air trafic controller communications. Being at a destination is what counts. The process of getting there is an experience that signals, from time to time, to keep my expectations in check. Again, [...]
First he asked who in the audience had a camera. After a short pause the studio was lit up by the screens of dosens of cell-phone cameras. Jarvis immediately named them “the best cameras”. Following the title of his recent book, he talked about registering momentum with the lens or just a hole in a [...]
This turned out to be not what was planned. On its way to Hawaii the sun set clouds on fire and rolled glowing waves back towards shore. Freedom and wildness were nearly absolute when the modern Thoreau [Henry David] walked into the frame as “a direct dispensation from Heaven”. More to come ..
October. Lots of photographs, deadlines, pretty subjects, and raw business as usual. In October there are places where flowers are in full bloom, their colors are loud and delicate petals are aware of even most careful hands. Water and light mixed with airlike carbon and there we have it — Life. Plants just do it [...]
Wake up a crowd of ten thousand at 5 am, put on them running shoes, release in downtown in a couple of hours for some 26 miles, and witness the year’s largest running event. It’s bad to call people names, but I couldn’t resist the temptation to occasionally insert “Mr. Ferrari” and “Madam Porsche” while [...]
It’s impossible to be in two places at once. And there, where I can be, I can’t always pull out an fx sensor and rip frames. This evening’s light has been teasing my will power by drawing colors out of ordinary elements. Finally it got me — another moment of weakness. Rephrasing Grover, in Oregon [...]
Every new visual concept involves knowledge of tools — either real tactile implements or electronic ones. This past week I worked on the project in which a tool was the central visual concept. In the process I thought about tools in general. I thought that there’s a myriad of tools, they are mastered for years, [...]
Love panoramas. They are unobstructed, continued representation of the whole scene. I learned the concepts and techniques back in my cinematographic years. In still imaging, panoramas accompany my portrait, event, and even macro projects; they are absolutely inescapable aspect of landscape or nature photography. Big bug’s mobility can, sometimes, be controlled by the temperature what [...]
When I hear or read the name “David Buffington” I think about a high “pilotage” of visual communication, divine photographic techniques, and 30+ years in editorial and commercial photography being fulfilled by projects with Getty, Corbis, and Intel – to name just a few. Needless to say, I was delighted when David agreed to participate [...]
As with any art director, the review process was intense, and it shows (!). I thought that the frames I was shooting have been wirelessly transfered onto my art hero’s camera card. That was not the case. And I have never asked him about his results; anyway, he didn’t offer. Nowadays, what occurs in camera [...]
It is clear that Madeleine’s Wine Festival’09 will become a new tradition. And here is why: For more photos of the event, follow at http://orders.tatianaboyle.com/wine_festival More to come…
Reading art and technical publications evokes inspiration and thoughts; therefore is this new category. Nikon’s new release of another “first” has made me think a few decades ahead. These days I can photograph an event and simultaneously transfer images onto a large projection screen. And, in not-so-distant future, I might be able to publish a [...]
Worked on the coast for a couple of days. Coffee maker stayed home what merited early morning trip to a nearby shop. It takes some will power to let pictures go, not make or take them, and leave things happening without a sound of shutter release. This morning I gave in. I witnessed chess game [...]
Many of my fellow photographers carefully monitor all upgrades and newly coming versions of image cataloging and editing software, and some just let them go for a time being or leave it up to their assistants to follow all upcoming trends. I was looking for something in the past issues of Layers magazine and realized [...]
According to a loud and continuing feedback, the absolute favorite of July is this landscape image of sunrise at Lake Tahoe. It’s being ordered as prints of all available dimensions on an assortment of media, inserted into greeting and postcard designs, thus setting up a record of some sort and beating other compositions, again, this [...]
Meet Picco, a papillon dog. Papillon means “butterfly” what is true about Picco’s ears. This young fella kept swirling and jumping around studio, he was curious and nervous altogether. I let him go everywhere while re-arranging the set. It looked like I was focused on my work and he concentrated on his learning about the [...]
Got up at 3; got there at 4. Dark, for human eye. For the camera it is different phenomenon. Photography lives by its own theory of relativity. Co-o-o-ld, cloudy, starry. Birds are “rubbing their eyes” so loudly. Earth has rotated without noise; sunrise. More to come …
Gjon Mili said that photography is 90 percent preparation and 10 percent serendipity. There are times when preparation requires 100 and more percent, particularly when unexpected delays scream “what time is it?!”. I had planned two spare hours for this commute to an assignment and that prep time really helped to arrive on time; although, [...]
There are car races, there are boat races, there are Olympic races, and marathons. And there’s Trioba race. The Trioba is when you know where you start but have a very general idea where you are heading: on bike, feet — often turning in “bush-whacking”, raft or kayak, with map and compass and without GPS. [...]
Well-worked hands deserve the entire frame. For 60 amazing years Gene Mason’s hands, mind, and talent have been building golf courses and creating education programs in Oregon and Washington. Skamania Lodge Golf Course, Persimmon Country Club, Crooked River Ranch are just too few to mention. For his photo-session we met on the golf course that [...]
Portraits, portraits, portraits. Lens is uncompromising. But without it I could never come that close to my subject’s face. As if anyone would let me! “I’ll call my make up artist!” Oh wait, you are safe. Let’s just have a conversation with light. You are the celebrity, the front cover, the world’s press-release. More to come [...]
This young lady is an aspiring LPGA player. She made her putt and “went” to the next tee. Asking about her handicap was just a crazy idea. I thought, I can joggle golf ball on the iron’s face 23 times, and hurried to trip the shutter. Yeah, it’s a space generation. More to come…
In my sensible years I was avoiding catching hornets ‘n such by hands, I’ve got used to bug nets. In special circumstances they were coming in multiple configurations. Web developers would call them “pro-versions”. Was bugged almost the entire day. This Extatosoma tiaratum [never again! just slipped off my tongue] is a size of large Starbucks tumbler. [...]
Biscotti with espresso, then berries in chocolate cup, and coffee mousse as breakfast dessert; More to come …
“Dorado” effortlessly held the stage in North Portland with its well-thought original fusion themes. This show was also a fusion of band with its audience – all were on stage – and therefore there was no room for lots of fancy camera moves in-between. Despite and regardless, “Dorado’s” sound, ingenuity, and musicianship [is this a [...]
W. Eugene Smith meant ANY light that was available. Church of Holy Apostles is a quaint community led by Father Dimitri. Our plan was to record the highlights of Easter celebration. I came with just a minimum-minimorum set up of lights and left the rest to improvisation. The church had one tall window which lit [...]
The “Little Green Book” (available where books are sold) describes 365 ways to love our planet and publishes one of my photos on its double spread as illustration of love. Indeed, love the planet, love fresh grapes, drink that famous Oregon Pinot Noir, and so help the sustainable farming. More to come …
Oh, don’t ask. I mean the title of this post. We met with Angelina at her ballet home studio were she is practicing her pas balancé. After Angelina told me that she was dancing in “Swan Lake” when Russian ballet came to town, I was confident that I’ll be photographing the bright future of the [...]
David is busy; strategizing, projecting, worrying… He came for a session to update his small business website, “About Us” page, and add images to the company’s modest mailing campaign. Website?! Campaign?! These days?! Yep. He had a budget and a well articulated goal: clear and simple. I said I could work with it. When we run [...]
First, when Joe saw this photograph it was titled “Joe McNally’s Office Upgrade”. Then later, I read Annie Leibovitz’ description of her watching Robert Frank work for a few days. She writes, “I couldn’t believe that I was able to watch him work for a few days… He picked up my camera once. I was [...]
On Friday MLS has made a long-waited announcement about major soccer (football) team coming to Portland. The news has blown away all socks of Timbers fans. This aspiring wing player has decided to commemorate the event at the studio; our outside session is coming with warmer weather. More to come…
Earlier this year Martha Mollison, an acclaimed American-Australian videographer, and TBI (Tatiana Boyle Images) team worked on a set in Portland’s Pearl district to create some instructional photos for the new edition of her book. Here, a beautiful model Alesia demonstrates the position of camera operator relatively subject. Our photo-set assistant Lisa Driscoll is behind the [...]