I know for many people the feeling is “running sucks” but not for me. Over the past 4 months I have been working on a series of portraits of runners.

I hope you enjoy the series as much as I have enjoyed meeting the individuals.

http://www.robertwrightphoto.com/projects-run.html

I like it when New Years Eve is Saturday night and New Years day is Sunday, yesterday was a very quiet and slow introduction to a new year. Wishing the best to everyone.

new work from “Vale of Cashmere” Prospect Park Brooklyn.

Ok this is not the way you use this…

Its supposed to go in an iPhone- its called “Square” and it allows you to accept credit card payments over your iPhone which are then deposited nightly to your account. They take 2.5%, which I think is low compared to standard merchant services accounts in the major banks.

I’ve often thought and written about how the whole financial model of professional photography is busted, if you think about your daily life, you rarely if ever get to walk out of any store, professional office, toll booth, school, even church without laying down you hard earned CASH in one way or another for something you received. The kid at the local neighbourhood lemonade stand ain’t gonna take credit either. And there are so many ways now to pay, banks have made it incredibly easy to move money around online and with direct deposit. All for a fee yes but time is money too.

I’ll let you know how it works out, right now I just got it (and its free to sign up and the reader is free too) because I have had now a few occasions where I have been asked or when it might have been more expedient just to accept a credit card.

Maybe the next 5DmkIII will have it built in. Just remember you saw it here first.

It kind of reads like that Old Spice commercial, “Can your man prepare a gourmet dinner in a kitchen he hewed out of solid oak by hand?…” Well, Taavo can. You don’t know him but if you have been to Freemans, The Rusty Knot or the new Isa in Williamsburg then you have sat on his chairs, drank at his bars and feasted under his roofs. And yes he makes the stuff. He gets it from his parents, that’s his dad Toivo enjoying his retirement. I think Taavo might have put him to work…

File under the category of “exactly as you thought” which is a compliment.

Director of the new movie “Gainsbourg,” on a press junket, hotel room, etc. I didn’t say I was from “Horse and Hound” magazine. You’re wondering how I got that photobooth into the elevator huh?…

Been a long time since I put anything up here…as usual it comes in a deluge.

First is a website update. I streamlined the logo and have separated out galleries. There will be some new galleries added in the coming week. Piece of advice; don’t bother creating your own custom website. Just get some service to do do it like aphotofolio or livebooks. It is not worth the effort. I had to migrate to a new server and have lost days to that. And I sort of know what I am doing, just enough to be dangerous. Massive PITA. If you are interested, I have used slideshowpro.com to provide the functionality, also their Director software to manage the backend. It is well integrated with Lightroom so I can export images and they appear instantly, formatted.

New also is iPhone and iPad compatibility via HTML5- ok so you don’t care- but the website works and formats for whatever iOS or Android device you are on. Check it out.

You might notice some new faces in there- tomorrow I will post about recent work.