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The Statue of Liberty | NYC two days before the storm

That old day job I had sometimes hires me to go photograph really boring things.  But every now and then, they're in really cool places, like New York City.   George and I hit the town the morning of my assignment (fancy gala dinner awards ceremony thing) and did the single most touristy thing possible: the Statue of Liberty. Y'all, this is my husband.  He's away at the moment.  I prefer when he's here.   This is a normal "tourist" photo of George and me "making like the" Statue of Liberty.  I have a lot of "making like the" photos in my personal collection.  George says we are going to cherish them someday.  That is likely.  But I'm definitely going to have to teach him about camera angle and lens choice and not making my thighs look enormous. Then we were done with all that and caught this street show.  What's really weird is that I saw the exact same show performed by different guys at Central Park the next day.  I don't know if it's a franchise (a street performer franchise??) or if someone ripped off the other group... but it was the same routine - down to the same jokes!  I thought that was so odd. The next day, I had breakfast with David and Carrie. David makes his eggs too runny.
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by Amber Categories: TravelTags: , ,

Workshop Rejects – Take Two

The first round of rejects can be seen here.  Now I'm showing you even more project rejects, but it's the last set before the big reveal (are you excited yet!?)  These images come from a workshop I took in July with Spencer Lum.  It was gruelling and exciting and I'm proud of the work I produced.  Hope you like this second set of losers.  You can skip ahead to the full set of finalized projects if you like, or you could be held in suspense a while longer. These images are all from the Jay Street Subway in Brooklyn, a block from the guest house I was staying at.  I found this subway station immensely beautiful, and spent two days focused on taking pictures there.  These images are those I love but ultimately didn't fit into the flow of the project. street photography at jay street subway in brooklyn brooklyn street photography new york city street photography street photography at brooklyn subway stop street photography at a subway entrance new york city street photography workshop street photography in new york city
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by Amber Categories: StreetTags: , , ,

Workshop Rejects – take one

Back in July, I had the opportunity to take part in Spencer Lum's "I Will Make You Suffer" photography workshop.  I really had no idea what it was going in.  Spencer is one of my favorite writers in the wedding industry, so when he announced the workshop, I signed up without reading any of the fine print.  Turns out I had agreed to a four-day personal project intensive.  And intense is exactly what it was: four brutal days of constant shooting, with two critiques each day.  That means TWICE a day, you had to bring in new material to be torn apart. What I'm showing here is a selection of some of the images that were not selected to be part of my project.  But I still love them and even if I killed my babies in critique, this is my blog and I can revive them.  All of these images are from the first two days of shooting - when I was wandering the streets and thinking I would be doing a general New York City street project.  It was really good to be shooting street, and to be shooting it for hours on end, regardless of how much my feet hurt.  I claim to be a street photographer but the truth is I don't spend that much time going out to do street.  It's intimidating.  But having four hours to get something good to show in critique really pushes you to go for it.  These are some of my favorite images from the first part of the workshop. I'll be posting my final workshop images two blog posts on this subject from now.  But if you want to cut right to the chase, you can hop over to Spencer's post on the workshop.
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by Amber Categories: StreetTags: , , ,