When I started this blog I was craaaazy busy shooting for a living and living to shoot.
There was no shortage of fresh images and projects (commercial and personal) to draw from.
A big, hot creative period. These things happen. These things end.
I wondered what I’d post those weeks when nothing much seemed to be happening (except a
bunch of meetings, post production, writing quotes, invoicing, phone calls, not-real-interesting
shoots and way too many e-mails).
This is one of those weeks. I feel like I’m chained to my desk.
I figure that a certain vibe and approach will show itself as tonyfoto/drool progresses. I am a proponent of
process, after all. I believe that fluidity, reaction, instinct and will are the ingredients of that (process). So
I’m going try to keep it loose, react, trust my instincts and post a new entry every Tuesday morning and see
where that leads.
I’m a pretty impatient guy but I realise that this drool thing will unroll over weeks and months. I don’t need
to say it all right now, do I? If I did then you wouldn’t need to come back once a week. Would you?
I’ve got a whole bunch of shooting coming up next week. Let’s see if anything happens there that I can bring here.
You never know.
Too many words.
Here’s too many pictures. And a story that goes along with a couple of them:
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(TRUE) STORY:
We were having lunch in Rosedale, Mississippi (pop: 2,414). The Double L Soul Food Kitchen, a plywood shack on
Main Street. After lunch (which was excellent) I asked Lordish Lewis, the cook and owner, if I could take some shots
of her. She said: “Sure”. While I was shooting her an old fellow came up. Lordish introduced him as her dad.
Right after we were introduced he told me, as he straightened his back: “I’m 72 years old. I got 12 children. I been a man”.
I said to him: “Your wife must be quite a woman to bring all those kids into the world”.
He replied: “It took 4 wives”.
Afterwards Lordish told me she’s got brothers and sisters she’s never met.
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