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It’s been said that chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays. Quite true! And for me, it’s also helped cure quite a few Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and….
Make sure you’re never empty handed during the week. Get to The Best Chocolate in Town this weekend and load up on…well…the best chocolate in town. Click here to read on.
My wife and I go antiquing. There I said it. Yes, we’re unabashed antiquers who like adding artwork, furniture, lights, etc., to our house that make you think…make you wonder…make you imagine. And to us, the nicest compliment people can give us is when they ask: “What’s the story behind that piece?”
One place we find ourselves asking that same question is at Doc’s Architectural Salvage & Reclamation Services (1325 West 30th Street, Indianapolis). Click here to read on…
Colts fans…this isn’t the way it’s supposed to be. Right now, we should be sitting at 4-0. We should be watching Peyton put up MVP-caliber numbers and we should be dreaming of a Super Bowl win here in Indy! So far, it’s been a tough year to watch football to say the least.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to stay that way. Click here to read on…
I’m doing the 30-Day Photo Challenge by Allison Lehman (http://blog.allisonlehman.com). Check back here daily for a new pic per that day’s requirement.
DAY THIRTY: MYSELF…30 DAYS LATER
DAY TWENTY-NINE: CLOUDS
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: INCORPORATE MOTION
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: NATURAL LIGHT
DAY TWENTY-SIX: PLAYING WITH SHADOWS
DAY TWENTY-FIVE: WHATEVER I WANT
DAY TWENTY-FOUR: FAVORITE COLOR SCHEME
DAY TWENTY-THREE: CHILDHOOD MEMORY
DAY TWENTY-TWO: SOMEONE I LOVE
DAY TWENTY-ONE: SUNSET
DAY TWENTY: WHATEVER I WANT
DAY NINETEEN: LANDSCAPE
DAY EIGHTEEN: DEPICTING EMOTION
DAY SEVENTEEN: STREET LIGHTS
DAY SIXTEEN: EXPERIMENTING WITH LIGHT
DAY FIFTEEN: WHATEVER I WANT
DAY FOURTEEN: FOCUSING ON EYES
DAY THIRTEEN: PHOTO EDIT I LIKE
DAY TWELVE: SAME SHOT, DIFFERENT LIGHT
DAY ELEVEN: BLACK AND WHITE
DAY TEN: WHATEVER I WANT
DAY NINE: SOMETHING FROM A DISTANCE
DAY EIGHT: SOMETHING UP CLOSE
DAY SEVEN: SILHOUETTE
DAY SIX: FROM A LOW ANGLE
DAY FIVE: WHATEVER I WANT
DAY FOUR: FROM A HIGH ANGLE
DAY THREE: FAVORITE PLACE TO BE
DAY TWO: WHAT I WORE
DAY ONE: SELF-PORTRAIT
People ask me all the time why I wear a green T-Rex-shaped silly band on my right wrist. Since you asked, I got it last August from a 13-year-old boy in Muncie, Indiana…his way of thanking me for giving him a dollar for the vending machine. Small price to pay for what I got in return!
This kid was fighting for his life against acute lymphoblastic leukemia. On that day, the Make-A-Wish Foundation was granting his wish of a shopping spree, and I was there to photograph the day for his family. We trekked all around Muncie, stopping at Kirk’s Bike Shop, Kohl’s, Muncie Mall, Pizza Hut, etc.
What amazed me about this kid was that he never thought about himself throughout the day. This whole experience was setup for him, and yet he kept seeking out ways to extend the wish to his family. Quite the example of selflessness and humility!
It’s been a year since I saw him. Every time I look at the green silly band he gave me, I wonder how he’s doing. I hope he’s still alive, but also know there’s a very real chance he’s not. My silly band helps me not forget. It reminds of the brevity of life. It reminds me that I may have had the privilege of capturing that kid’s last pictures. It reminds me that every photo I get to shoot may potentially be someone’s last captures. Quite sobering.
I’ve always dug the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bookends,” which seem quite apropos…
Time it was, and what a time it was, it was
A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph
Preserve your memories, they’re all that’s left you.
To most of my friends who live downtown and in Broad Ripple, the very idea of going anywhere north of 96th Street sounds like an exhausting ordeal. Like an invitation to leave the country.
Well if that’s you too, then grab your passport and plan a trip this summer to the Palladium…all the way up in Carmel. Click here to read on…
Fortunately, Rock Steady Boxing Foundation (5026 East 62nd St) lets me do just that…and at the same time join in their fight against Parkinson’s disease. Click here to read on…
Remember your parents telling you about a place called THE LIBRARY? A place where people read actual hardcopy books and real, live people—called librarians—helped people find these relics? Remember the stories they’d tell of call numbers, microfilm and Dewey’s decimals?
I found out that place still exists here in Indy…the Central Library…but it’s not your parents’ library anymore. Click here to read on…
The Indianapolis Art Center—in north Broad Ripple—has been stretching the proverbial “cultural canvas” for years, prepping artists (like yourself) to compose their own cultural visions.
Since its founding as the Indianapolis Art Students League in 1934, the Art Center has been “the place to make art, see art and buy art.” Click here to read on…
I wrote a column recently for IndySpectator.com on the not-so-usual places to get your picture taken in Indianapolis. Check it out below and sign-up for Indy Spectator today—if you’re not already a subscriber!
So you’re thinking of getting some pics taken of the kids, of yourself or of you and your significant other. There’s just one problem…you don’t want them to look like everyone else’s photos. You know, you don’t want the “Olan Mills Effect,” where it’s different people in front of the same backdrop. In Naptown, that tends to be Butler, the Canal Walk, Indianapolis Museum of Art, etc.
Well, if you want to get pics in front of more unique Indy backdrops, here are three highly-different locales that are some of my personal favs:
