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.

My personal philosophy is that photography should be fun. Part of having fun is trying new things. I find that digital infrared photography is lots of fun because it helps a person look at their world in a new way and lets them create images that are unlike any other technique that they’re likely to try.