Several months ago I began a series of uncensored ports about working with models who I’d been photographing over the years. Beginning on April 24, these special posts were usually uploaded on Thursdays and displayed on the main page as “Password Protected”

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” – Maya Angelou

Proving that a leopard can indeed change it’s spots and you can teach an old dog new tricks and any other cliché that you want to toss in there… I have now learned to stop working and (more or less) love ISO. Especially when I’m shooting video.

Back in the day when camera manufacturers thought we needed and wanted lenses that had depth-of-field scales and infrared focusing marks—as if autofocus actually freed us from these technical concerns—they used to include lots of what now many companies think of as extras.

“Street rods have a Chevy in front and a can of wax in the back…Hot Rods have a flathead in front and a box of tools in the back”—Fred Offenhauser