One Photographer's Perspective

Just want to let everyone know that I am gonna be uploading all the new images from FetishCon.  I had an amazing time and got some amazing photos, even though Bobby left me high and dry.  I will get

A lot of times I think back to when I got my first camera at 11 years old.  My mother had befriended a narcotics officer for the Miami Police Department.  He was doing a lot of surveillance and developing and printing his film, in his garage.  He needed help with the developing and printing.  So, when he had to baby sit me he put me to work.  I became addicted to the smell of "fixer" or was it the "developer" I don't know, the chemicals of a darkroom still give me a rush.  He bought me my first Nikon and my first Ruger 22 caliber rifle, taught me to shoot both, and to shoot well.  I started shooting with my camera right away at almost anything up until high school when I became the school photo editor.  I had my own dark room on campus.  "Yes" I am the photo geek you remember from school.  In the 11th grade I was fired!  Apparently they didn't like the photos of our cheerleaders doing kick-lines at the football games.  Bloomers still turn me on!  They were not too happy to find out that at football games I shot more of the girls in the stands than the game.  I was conflicted most of the time in high school and I was a highly sexual changed human inside of a puritanical, all boys Catholic School.  Corporal punishment became a daily event for me.  I can still describe each of the teacher's favorite paddles. 

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In this blog I am just gonna ramble for a while.  I don't care if you read it or not.  I guess it's just gonna be a place for me to get my thoughts out, as I have so many about my photography and about what I am really doing here.  I don't know how personal it will be.   But, I guess you can't get much more personal than the thinking that goes behind the creative process that goes into making art (And, again I don't care if you think what I do is art or not).

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I spent last weekend down in Miami for the Art Undressed Weekend.  I shared a vender’s booth with Tracy, creator of TruFetish.com.  The event gave me a chance to meet and get to know the people in the local Fetish and Art Industries a lot better.  I love seeing everyone in the day light and outside of a club or outside of a shoot.  I think it was a humanizing experience for all.  I was able to see what a large scale art event would look like.

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