I ran across a book by Michael Eastman the other day and there were a couple of photos from St. Louis that caught my eye. So as a result of that inspiration here is a photo of a building that I saw in the book and that I have been meaning to photograph for a while now (I pass it nearly every day). I have also included a link to a video interview with Mr. Eastman.

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Wedding Bells

I took photos at the wedding rehearsal last night (still working on those). The wedding is tomorrow.

Meanwhile I saw this cool video on another website:


Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

In Like A Lion Out Like A Lamb?

I like to use the dull days of an endless gray winter to sort through my photos and looking for the ones I meant to work on but never got around to. The weather has been less than inspiring lately and I have not gone anywhere in the last month. I keep looking for signs of life at the park but have not found any so far.
My favorite breakfast place has officially lost its luster but we had a good run of consistently great food there for a while and that is better than most of the places around here. I want to go back to Portland and have blueberry pancakes for breakfast. Because of the time difference I can actually get up in time for breakfast when I’m on the West Coast.
The big wedding is coming up later this month and I want to buy a new lens for my camera but the cost of good glass is enough to make a man faint. An inexpensive lens is tempting but the ones I have had in the past were not too good and didn’t last long under normal use. It just seems like money down the drain but that is about all I can afford at the moment. I’ve been looking at used primes on ebay.com but those seem to go for ridiculous amounts of money and have no warranty.
It looks like this weekend’s road trip to Nashville has been cancelled. Bah!
Yes, I have a lot to complain about. ;-)

The Jury Is Out

The Presidential Inauguration is over and so are my two days of jury duty in the City of St. Louis. Today is Chinese New Year and a big winter storm is bearing down on us. There is nothing much new photographically speaking except for my New York weekend earlier this month and some photos I took of the Drive-In Donuts sign last weekend.
No one seems very interested in my efforts lately. I think photography is becoming more of a general pastime now that everyone has entered the digital age. It is relatively easy to take photos and post them online for all your friends to admire. People certainly chafe at the idea of paying someone to take photographs. It seems as though everyone with (or without) a camera dreams of being the world’s greatest photographer and living a life of carefree adventure.
I’m just trying to make it through another dull week of uphill struggle.