redfishingboat

I had a gig shooting my friends blues band in a sports bar in Oceanside. It was a dark corner without a stage and without any existing lighting. This was much different than any concert shooting I had done before, where stage crews set up expensive lights for the band that I can piggyback [...]

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“Old Things” - Codeine
How did I end up with a Leica? Good question.
I visited Scott Hevener in Montana, and during an off moment he handed me his Leica M2. I responded badly. The correct response would have been an enthusiastic yelp as I grabbed it and begged to try it out. I should have been [...]

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Song of the Day “Waste It On” - Silversun Pickups

I just want a film camera that can use my existing Canon EF lenses — that means an old film EOS. When I saw a Canon Rebel II on Craigslist for ten dollars. I figured that would be a good try. When I picked it up, [...]

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On April 5, there is a FUNdraising event for TransitPeople –  “an all-volunteer Los Angeles non-profit that conducts educational, one day trips for school groups using the public transit system.”
What is it?
“Five competing teams of grown-ups will use public transit trains and buses to race (well, race kind of; how can you race while holding [...]

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Anonymous tip leads police to dead body in car trunk. My hood.
http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/id/D96PJTBO5
I can see the killers now: “Who knew we did that? Who owns a fax machine? Oh your ol’ lady! Get her!”
We gotta watch out for each other VV Massive. Throw ya VV up!

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It was my fault that I lost control of the car. I shouldn’t have leaned on the gas. Now my heart was skipping a beat or six as the tractor trailer — as much of it as I could see in thirty foot visibility — loomed large off my right front bumper. Steady were my [...]

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Robert Capa died a good death. For the world’s greatest war photographer, to go out by stepping on a Vietamese landmine, Contax in hand has to be wholly satisfactory. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” were the famous words attributed to him. One can’t imagine he would be that disappointed.

Blood [...]

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Wait, was that a rifle shot?
Another booming crack echoed arced over the foggy hilltop.

Yes, those are rifle shots! I realized, and decided leave this anonymous roadside scene I had stopped to take a picture of.  As, I quick-stepped it back to my rental car, I had visions of explaining bullet holes to a spectacled Hertz [...]

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