Graffiti Greeting

You have to love the uncommon store foyers in Philadelphia. You just don't see this at the GAP in your local mall. Maybe it's just me, but I find these entranceway's far more interesting than the stores themselves.

Thundercats

So I went to Six Flags Theme Park over the weekend to spend a little time with my favorite 600lb tigers. The real trick with these guys is to maintain that fine line between being hungry enough to want to dive for your food, but not so hungry that they'll simply gobble the trainers up whole, a la Roy Horn. And you really can't appreciate just how huge these tigers are until you're right up on them with a mere 4 inches of Plexiglas between the two of you. Anybody notice the big cat theme going on here lately? Pure coincidence, I swear.

King of the Urban Jungle

This guy beckons at the entrance to some random shop in Center City. Not sure what else to say about this thing except that I love it, and I'm gonna try to figure out a way to eventually get this in my living room. All hail the King.

Hungry, Hungry Hip... I Mean Horses.

These poor horses...an entire football field worth of full, lush green grass for the taking. And what do they do? They eat wood. Or each other. Someone give these guys some hay! But seriously, there's some great horse photography to be found throughout Chesterfield, what with all the farms and green acres. What I'd really like to do is find someone who knows how to jump these things. That would make quite the photograph...

Garden Spot

It was back to the beautiful Sayen Gardens for this shoot. Little did I know there would be four weddings going on when I showed up. As a result, we were a bit limited as for places to shoot within the Gardens. Nevertheless, I managed to get a few interesting shots. Nicole was great, and she didn't even mind the ruckus caused by the large bull frogs all around us.

Pure Sugar

She goes by the name of 'Sugar', and she and I got together via Model Mayhem, a model/photographer networking website. This was my first shoot with someone from MM, and it went off without a hitch. She was very courteous and professional. The shoot took place in Center City, Philadelphia, around South and Bainbridge Streets.

Czech yourself.

So the other day I had the opportunity to work with Janka. Never before have I worked with such a relaxed, confident & energetic model. She had a really good time and it enabled me to relax as well and concentrate on trying to capture something new. Here's a couple. All shots taken at 50mm, f1.4, ISO 800. Lighting consisted of three el-cheapo tungsten-bulb tin hats, graciously provided by fellow shooter Josh Pelta-Heller (check him out here). I suppose someday I'll have the cash to buy some real lighting....someday....