Liz Hatch – Bicycling Magazine
I recently did a shoot with cyclist Liz Hatch for Bicycling Magazine. Liz was gracious enough to come to San Francisco’s Chinatown for the shoot even though she was in a pretty bad crash about a week before the shoot. She could barely lift her hand to shake mine when we met. And yet despite knowing she was in agony, I asked her to heave her bike onto her shoulder (yeah, the bad one). Without complaint she obliged, although I did feel bad as I watched her struggle to find a comfortable position for the bike…. hey, you’re supposed to suffer for your art, right? Oh wait, it’s me that’s supposed to suffer… right?
Needless to say Liz is a lot tougher than I am and could probably kick my ass even with her injuries.
Exactly how boring am I to work for?
Internship Pay: $0
Educational Value: $0
Working with Jeff Singer Photography: Worthless
My intern Jill standing in before a shoot.
A.P.E. Likes Me
Seems that I made the cut over at Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor slideshow of photographers he likes. You can head over to the Fickr page or the slideshow website and check out a lot of great work.
Just remember to come back here and hire me.
On A Personal Note
The blogging has been a bit scarce lately. I’ve been traveling back and forth between San Francisco and my hometown Stockton. My mother was just recently diagnosed with lymphoma cancer. This week she started her chemo treatment. Her doctor has had her in the hospital since Monday for her first treatment to make sure there were no adverse reactions. She gets out of the hospital today. So far she is feeling fine so hopefully that will continue.
A friend of mine, Deirdre, is running for “Team In Training.” She will be running marathon and is looking for sponsors to donate money. All the money goes to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. If you would be interested in donating (as little as $25 is possible) you can do so on her link here:
http://www.active.com/donate/tntgsf/tntgsfDSabow
Her goal is $2800 and she’s 59% there as of now. Of course we could put her way past that if we tried.
If you know anyone else who may be interested in donating please forward her link on.
I’m sure I’ll get back to writing more completely useless blog posts soon.
Early Platon, Olan Millls and The Sweet Styles of the 70′s
Upon finding this funny link showing some classic Olan Mills photos I think I discovered an early Platon image. You can clearly see his style has developed over the years:
Now, the really funny thing about those Olan Mills photos is that I could have made the list. Here I am with my dog Fancy on the left (yes, I named her) and my mom and I on the right circa 1978. Sweet tank top and grey slacks combo:
