Between the day job at the phone and company and my nights and weekends at the New York Post. I've been quite busy. It's an interesting balance. Though most of you readers, albeit a small amount of you that actually do read this blog I've been trying to have fun with photography again. You know that feeling that most beginners have when they set out to the street of their hometown and unconsciously and subconsciously snap pictures of what ever they see. Well in my case when I started photography some 9 years ago, I was shooting with a Mamiya 500TL 35mm camera. So I had my share of mistakes. Of course I didn't now my f-stops from a shutter speed. All of that was a foreign concept to me. But that my friends is a great thing. The unknown. Not knowing if your picture is going to come out or just having that itch to always walk out the door to explore the everyday and mundane with an objective eye.

It was fun.

Fast forward some 9 years and a Nikon D3 later (yes I finally settled on shooting with nikons more on that in another post) and I'm bringing myself back to that sense of almost irresponsible carefree and light shape finding bliss. The challenge though is that my editors of the New York Post expect me to shoot a certain way on assignments. Some assignments don't lend much to creativity due to the fast paced nature of let's say a perp walk, or a celebrity running and taking off into a car and having to shoot through a window. So I've been yearning to make things look interesting because I love what I do. The beauty of this job is you can have a low point of creativity but you'll still love it. But when you begin to pull yourself out of that rut the job becomes more rewarding. The occupy wall street protests have been a great opportunity to attempt to make that scene look different though I've only been assigned there 3 times out of the two months the protests have been going on I've found my creative edge once again.

Ok I said enough.

Here are some photos that I added to my personal work section of my website.