Captured By Light

A detail from a larger image that got me interested in the idea of exploring relationships between people in their natural environments.

I’m looking to explore the romantic/erotic/power dynamic relationships in couples, through a black and white fine art medium.

I’ve got a number already, almost inadvertently, but I’m now going to focus very intently on that theme for a while for a series of images. Should be interesting, and fun, to say the least.

I saw and talked to you briefly(I was the guy sitting in the shade), then afterwards thought someone with your zest for life would be perfect for the fine art series I am starting about couples. I am presuming you have a partner/boyfriend/husband/girlfriend, etc.

Loved your style when you got out of the car and closed the door. One in a million.

So I left a business card for you under the windshield wiper of your car, since my ride arrived before you came back outside again.

Shoot me an email or a phone call if you are interested.

My Model Portolio on Flickr - click here

Captain Jack Sparrow holds a shield for his buddy, a Spartan Warrior representing the movie “300,” while the latter goes on break.

Peter Frampron’s star lies in disrepair along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sure, he’s kind of an obscure guy to have a star, but who would have guessed that back in the Seventies? There are plenty of even more obscure names on the walk, but it’s hard not to think that Jerry Lewis is in a bad neighborhood he didn’t deserve here.

I’ll just let this little photo essay speak for itself. An incident observed at Las Palmas Street and Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, the afternoon of March 13, 2008.

A street performer on break near Grauman’s Chinese Theater travels through an adjoining passage to perform again.

He knows a lot about those stars, from how many there are on each block, to how they tend to fracture from wear. An easy way to tell the original stars from the modern ones is to check the brass names - the originals have raised letters, and the more recent are set flush.

The newer ones tend to crack more readily as well, because they are thinner. They crack along the base of the points, or right across the middle. He said that Jay Leno’s star cracked three days after they unveiled it, and it took several replacements to get one that would last.

The only person working on them, he cleans the stars in rotation, and when he finishes them all he starts over again, and does several rotations a year. Sixty four stars on a short block, 128 on long ones, and a max of something like 164 on the longest stretch of road, or something like that.

They add a couple of stars each month, but you can still see scattered blank ones here and there saving spaces for future stars.

Which he will clean.

One of my favorite couple pictures - these two seem to have a real zest for life.

I shot this gregarious catwoman near Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Even posed for a couple of goofy pictures with her, and got a passerby to take them.

Sigh. They weren’t brilliantly composed, but nice of the guy to stop a moment.

I’ve always been fascinated by street performers - something I’d like to know more about.

And make sure you tip them. Seems like a fair trade for a few pictures.