Hey hardy New England folk, what do you do with record snowfall totals, icy roads, and plummeting windchills? Clearly, go surfing!
I just posted a personal project on winter surfing that I did this winter. Some of these shots were during a Nor’easter. At the rate this winter is going, I might continue the project until March. You’ve got to visit my projects section (scroll past the free running shots) to see the rest, including one of a surfer giving himself an impromptu shower in lukewarm water outside his car to warm up. What the photo doesn’t show, though you might be able to guess from his pained expression, is that it was about 10 degrees outside.

I can’t help shooting outside in the cold. Yes everybody’s skin turns pink and we’re all in pain but that’s a small price to pay. You can’t complain about a time of year where the sun stays hanging right near the horizon nearly all day, and the light creates crisp blue outlines everywhere. I’ve just posted a bunch of new portraits from the last few months up on my site and as you can tell I’m continuing my love affair with bright colors, as usual, bright blue and bright red are my current favorites. New music photos coming soon but in the meantime here’s what I’m listening to, check them out!
“Through the Fire” – Pete Miser
“Time Will” – Hercules and Love Affair
“Pockets” – Four Tet
“Even Born Again” – Sarah Jaffe

If you have not experienced one of the billboards of intimate photos of soldiers by Suzanne Opton you should check it out HERE:

I think it’s interesting for the fact that it’s a national “fine art” campaign not to mention the content has been pretty been loved and hated…

It’s pretty cool how the site shows where each of the different bulletin boards has been posted as well.

And HERE is a great gallery by a photographer Scout Tufankjian in Gaza.Again controversial because of its graphic content – in this case a dead face of a victim eerily similar to the shots in the soldiers billboards. It seems like Americans really have such a low tolerance for anything at all distasteful or hard to look at.