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Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. And in case you never gave it a fair shake, DS9 is absolutely the real deal good shit. Ok, so here we see a fella named Damar. He's a Cardassian with a "C" not the other ones. He's got a boney ridgey facial structure because he's not human, with spiney features on his face and forehead and around his eyes. And a mega thicc neck too. He's wearing a military shell type armour outfit that also looks hard and tough. He's addressing the camera, as if he's making some kind of announcement. It's 3 screenshots but the visual is all the same. Damar looking serious as a heart attack. Closed caption reads, "RESIST. RESIST TODAY. RESIST TOMORROW." (Also, in case you were wondering, FUCK ICE)

Alts in pic 1

Alt is still in pic one I promise I'm not lying to you go check it'll be there trust me

I drove past the Kennedy Center the other day and if I had any doubts about leaving and moving back to Boston in a few months, they vanished in those 3 seconds of driving past that bastardization.

I can’t escape this hellhole country, but at least I can move to a state that won’t fold so easily.

That recent Vanity Fair photoshoot inspired me to try my hand at my interpretation of that editorial style of photography. That perfectly imperfect photo, striving for feel and “texture” over technical perfection.

#photography #selfportrait #editorial

The only sad thing is that when he dies he won’t get to see most of the civilized world celebrating his death.

The amount of subtleties in the lighting here! I love the way this set came out.

#photography #conceptualphotography #portraitphotography

Photography isn’t dead. It’s just trapped under 10,000 reels of people pretending to teach it.

There’s jellyfish with more spine than senate democrats.

Get Cuck Schumer the fuck out of here.

I’ve always wanted to try this concept and it really taught me how much I need to order make sandbags. The wind did me dirty!

#photography #photographer #portrait #fashion

Me when I try to replicate a $400k+ IMAX camera with a Canon R5 II.

#sinners #movie #halloween #sinnersmovie

Happy Halloween from me and the hunny 🧛🧛‍♀️🩸

#halloween #sinners

I do find it a bit amusing how a lot of us photographers and videographers spend so much money to make our finely tuned and expensive gear create an imperfect image.

Grain, haze, vintage lenses, etc. What feeling are we chasing?

#photography #art

How it started vs. how it’s going.

14 years is a hell of a development time. Show me your early work, don’t be shy :p

#photography #photographer #professionalphotographer

Sometimes all you need is a massive window in the studio.

One of these days I’m gonna own a natural light studio. Or I’ll compromise and own a large studio where I can turn a giant scrim into artificial window light, heh.

#photography #photographers #portraitphotography

X100VI is so fun to use, it had me looking up the cost of a GFX 100S II for my work kit. I rather enjoy not having to color grade, ha.

Maybe the real American dream is to leave.

I’m tired. This country seems barreling towards total collapse…all because a part of it can’t accept that people who don’t look like them deserve rights. It’s an insane thing to witness live.

It may be time to plan a move to Europe. Like seriously.

They should ask the United States how that rhetoric is going so far

If I didn’t need to have a social presence for my freelance photography, I would delete every form of social media with no hesitation.

Definitely one of my goals if I garner enough success to be completely word-of-mouth based.

In this content era, I feel that social media has lost all of the ‘social’ and has just become a nonstop bombardment of “trying to sell you something”. It’s tiring, and IMO is why there’s so much burnout in most artistic fields. How are you photographers doing out there?

#photographers #photogtaphy

I think Bluesky is the place for photographers to be. The vast majority of other social media platforms only seem to care about “content” and reels. It actually feels pointless to post photos on them anymore.

The photos vs. the setup. Love me a good large scrim. Don’t love transporting them though, ha.

#photography #photographer #portraitphotography

TIL what decks are. I always thought they were some fancy corporate presentation mechanism. You’re telling me they’re just PowerPoint presentations? 😂

Some looks with Trish.

Really enjoying getting back to my studio work and messing around with new lighting setups!

#photography #portrait #portraitphotography

Still good here :)

Can’t stand these things blinding the fuck out of me at night, ugh.

I’ve been offered a ton of money to do a comedy set aboard the Borg Cube.

Here ye!

Love what you’ve been putting out lately in your newsletter

Thank you! That’s what I’m trying my best to go for so it makes me happy that it’s conveying well :)

Bidding farewell to summer with Sooyo.

I am so in love with this set. I was going through a bit of creative block for most of this year but I’ve been making a conscious effort to produce more personal work and I can slowly feel my mojo coming back.

#photography #portraitphotography #photographer

It’s definitely my favorite!