Event Photography: Living La Vida Verde
October 29th, 2008This past Saturday, Tucsonans held a huge party for the earth. Thousands came to Downtown to celebrate La Vida Verde. The festivities included tasty solar-cooked meals like this stew...
Our furred and feathered friends also got into the act. Meet Hopi, the career-changing Harris Hawk...
Hopi is a two-year-old male that came into the Forever Wild Animal Rehabilitation Center with a badly injured right wing. The wing healed, but he couldn't be released back into the wild. So, Hopi embarked on a new career as a Wildlife Ambassador.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Graphic Design: Solo Butterfly
October 22nd, 2008Another example of my ongoing quest to design with type and combine the result with photography. This promotional postcard offered a business tip (to hire me for Web and print design) along with a garden tip that plays off the image...
Tip: You can view more graphic design projects in my portfolio.
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Travel Photography: Military Flags
October 14th, 2008These flags are part of a Southwest Airlines/Chicago Midway Airport effort to honor active duty military serving overseas...
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Travel Photography: University of Michigan Diag
October 13th, 2008Although the University of Michigan campus has grown since my student days, the Diag is still the heart of it all. The Diag consists of two diagonal walkways that intersect outside the Graduate Library. It's long been a hotbed of activity, including this outdoor yoga class...
The student's feet are tantalizingly close to the Block M, which has special meaning for U-M freshmen. Campus lore says that if you step on the Block M before your first exam, you'll flunk it.
I don't recall if my feet touched the Block M before my first exam, but I do remember slipping on the ice-covered Block M a few months later. Lesson learned: The Diag hurts when you fall on it.
Having passed by the Block M, let's head southwest along the Diag, into the late afternoon sun...
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Event Photography: Ann Arbor Football Saturday
October 7th, 2008This past weekend, I went to Homecoming at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. A mandatory part of this experience is football Saturday.
Game day preparations start many hours before kickoff. Tailgate partiers arrrive in fully equiped RVs and set up camp near Michigan Stadium. And did I mention that flying the Block M flag is required?
Closer to campus, U-M students add their own festive touch. Some dress up as superheroes...
and others skip the costumes and head straight to the beer pong tables...
Then there was the game itself. Michigan jumped out to an early lead over Illinois...
Ah, the first quarter. The one quarter where we had plenty to cheer about...
Alas, Illinois built a sizable lead, and then there was no joy in Wolverine Country. Toward the end, we stood in shocked silence and watched as things fell apart on the field...
The fellow in the Illinois orange cap is my father, who earned his undergraduate engineering degree at Michigan and his graduate degrees at Illinois.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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Event Photography: Economic Forecast Calls for Stormy Weather
October 6th, 2008You might think that, since this is a design and photography blog, I was an art major in college. And you would be wrong. My college major was economics. (Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1979.)
It was one of those "on a whim" things. I had an good professor for an intro economics course and decided to change my major from journalism to economics.
It wasn't long before I had second thoughts about my decision. My childhood interest in the visual arts was crying out for attention, and I just didn't believe that there was any place for artists in the economics field. I began thinking about transferring to the U-M art school.
But an offhand comment in an Industrial Organization and Performance class persuaded me to stay put. The IOP prof was talking about the boredom he experienced at a recent economics conference. He found that watching the fellow seated next to him was much more interesting. That fellow was Will Baumol, and he was sketching away.
Baumol was, and is, an internationally renowned economist and artist.
Long story short, I didn't transfer to the art school. I didn't think my parents would be willing to pay more than four years of college tuition, and, as it turned out, I was right. Dad quit his job and started his own business a few months after I graduated.
In time, I did return to my first love, art, and I now work as a graphic designer and photographer. And, last Friday, all of these things came together in a most unlikely place, the University of Michigan economics department. The department was holding a forum on the state of the economy. (Forecast calls for stormy weather.)
I was there with my camera, and started shooting away as the U-M-trained economists forecasted...
As the forum was happening the U.S. House of Representatives was voting on Bailout 2.0. One of the economists announced that it had passed, and the audience reaction was stunned silence, followed by very little applause. That surprised me, because Ann Arbor audiences can be quite vocal.
The bring-down-the-house line came from one of the economists. He wasn't in favor of the current push to suspend mark-to-market accounting rules, and that was putting it mildly. Among other not-so-nice things, he said, “If you don’t like the temperature, you don't break the thermometer!"
Did those fighting words provoke a verbal sparring match between him and the other economists? No. As they did throughout the rest of the forum, those who didn't have the floor sat quietly and waited their turns to speak...
Meanwhile, the standing-room-only audience paid rapt attention...
On a side note, I had the privilege of meeting Will Baumol this past April. It was good to finally thank him for his indirect role in influencing another econo-artist.
Tip: You can view more event photography in my portfolio and on this blog. I am also available for event photography assignments in Tucson, Arizona, and elsewhere. I specialize in concerts, festivals, parades, political rallies, and sporting events. To check availability and to request a proposal, please e-mail me or call 520-690-1888.
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