The Latest Attempt at a Blog
Find behind the scenes stories, tips, tricks, and sometimes things that made me pull out my phone
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The Art of Connection
A favorite creative director always says Madeline has an eye for connections, so she had to use this suggested title
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Old Inspiration
Preparing for posing real people to make them look more like models based on pictures in magazines and ads
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Week of Dance
My old elementary and my current middle school both asked for help creating videos of their spring dance performances
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Two Tickets
Alternate side parking and traffic rules were coming for somebody…
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Two Shopping Carts
Walking to a nearby hospital to donate blood, I crossed paths with these two shopping carts someone left on the corner. I did not really want to get closer in case someone mistook me for a thief, so it’s not the most dramatic picture. What would you keep in your shopping cart if you were…
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Better in B&W?
I don’t usually convert my pictures, but this one felt like the action might benefit from being reduced to black & white. Bright blue versus dark blue was begging me play with the levels. Photoshop is my jam, so I’m not simply taking down the saturation to 0%. The shadows left on some of these…
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Just Brooklyn
Coming down the stairs to wait for a train to board, I saw a man cleaning his feet on the subway bench while cops casually arrested a man nearby. I didn’t think I should take out my phone. It seemed like a task for AI. When I switched lines at another station, I took a…
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Rewarded
Finding the real location for a Sunday game in September was something else. Coaches gave us a street address instead of the park name. The address was for a city sanitation site… We made it on time. It was so sunny. We needed Starbucks afterwards. We might have also hit the Target behind us. This…
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New Tearsheets
I still label them as tears in my phone even though nothing is in torn out of a magazine anymore. The signature clubs produce sidewalk stands, but I’m never in Manhattan or any other signature locations. The first time I saw one of my signs was like a year after it was printed. I had…
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Police Tape
Photographing police tape on my street corner because it felt dangerous but maybe wasn’t even a crime scene
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City Life
On my way somewhere downtown, I spotted a group of little kids on a walk and thought the whole scene felt other worldly