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I think you also meet the nicest people when shooting with a tripod. Once when I was at McCabe Meadows shooting infrared images with the Pentax K-1, a women who was carrying a DSLR asked, “what’s up there?” I held up the IR filter I was using and told her I was making an infrared picture of the tree. We had a pleasant chat and within a few seconds a cyclist passes by, stops and asking “is there a nest up there?” And so I explain it to him too…

A rat rod is a style of hot rod that imitates (or exaggerates) the early hot rods of the 1940s, 1950s and early-1960s. … It goes on to say that most rat rods appear “unfinished”, as only the vehicle’s bare essentials are driven.—Wikipedia

When I was attending the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore back in the film days, I created a series of “upside-down” images that were made by first shooting a photograph of urban architecture, then turning the camera upside-down and shooting the identical scene using the classic film a double-exposure techniques to create a sort of optical illusion.

When performing in Central Park in 1991, Paul Simon changed the lyrics of his song Kodachrome to “everything looked better in black & white,” proving that you can, in fact, change your tune,

The topics on these weekend posts tend to be slightly different than my Monday through Friday posts, with Saturday posts amounting to what I might call “anything can happen day” as they used to say on the Mickey Mouse Club. This includes posts like Joe’s Book Club, Joe’s Movie Club and anything that happens to strike my fancy for that day. On the other hand, my Sunday posts are posts tend to be business focused.

I started this new series of uncensored ports about working with special models, mostly on Thursdays, that will be displayed on the main page and will be marked as “Password Protected” or maybe just “Protected” because WordPress keeps changing how it handles these kinds of posts.