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

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

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

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.

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.

I think there are a lot of echos going on after the recent killing of OBL, no sooner was his body “eased” into the Indian Ocean than we had everyone telling us there could now be new threats, reprisals, etc. It never seems to end. The new vigilance is the old vigilance.

I think the Newsweek feature on Special Ops in light of Seal Team 6 is interesting, and no matter how we try to understand and be sensitive to Islam, we never seem to do it right (re; burial of OBL).

Another interesting similarity is the cultural fascination with eschatology-”end times”-2012 currently and Nostradamus then.

Look for more in the coming days.

In light of my recent posts about older working methods, part of the interest here for me is to try to connect with the kind of spontaneity I had or thought I had at the time. It was not about lighting or styling or anything but seeing.

This was around the time that Jonathan Lethem wrote “Motherless in Brooklyn,” and he knew the location well. I shot about 5 packs of polaroid 665 and dropped the whole thing off at Markheim for contacting. Except I forgot that they would charge me for washing, clearing, fixing and then contacting…about 500 dollars on top of the 120 colour and black and white I shot, and we hadn’t even gotten to prints. I got all of 150 I think for a FOB quarter page, so that didn’t really make sense huh?

What interests me today is the fact that I would go on jobs and shoot polaroid, 120, some 35, colour and black and white. That just doesn’t happen any more….Still, not making much more for FOB…and the location turned out to be a block from where I live now, so I was a full 7 years ahead of myself. Maybe you can tell above, one of those hot, flat, humid August days.

photobooth

used bookstore

wandering…