More pics and info on Salton Sea Trash The Dress

Chris Austin was the organizer of this whole Trash The Dress Session at the Salton Sea (yes, he's the guilty instigator of all of this!). He's put up a separate page here for the project. On it you can find links to lots links to galleries from more than a dozen talented photographers! If you want to see some good TTD pics, check this out.

There is also the Trash The Dress Blog, and some of our work is showing up on there as well. As Mark Eric says on the TTD blog, it's about creation, not destruction. There is also this vid by Matt Adcock and Sol Tamargo (now husband and wife:-)) of a TTD session in the Mayan Riviera. It's awesome. The bride looks like a mermaid, just beautiful.

I think people do it for different reasons. You'll notice in many of my pics (and some of the other photographers as well), the husbands were involved, which I think is fantastic.

You can see I was into lens flares and lots of backlight for this shoot :-)

Trash The Dress session at Salton Sea, round 2

I'm still trying to describe what this project is about. I guess the meaning is different for different people. I think it's a fun way to make unique photographs of something special to you. In thie mean time, these pics are from the latest batch that I have edited.

Trash The Dress session at Salton Sea

These are the first images I've edited from a group Trash The Dress shoot at The Salton Sea. I'll be adding more, with more info and explanations of "You did WHAT with your wedding dress?!?!?!?!" Click on an image for a larger size view.

Family portraits in Elfin Forest near Morrow Bay

Some pictures of my niece, Michaela, and nephew, Ian from Christmas. We celebrate Hanuka and Christmas. And that's my mini-poodle Bailey in the pic with Ian and the robot :-)

The Wire is coming ....... back to HBO, but still under the radar.

So now that we're getting back into TV season -- with no end to writers strike in sight -- there is a show that has gone largely unnoticed on HBO called The Wire. It is better than anything else I have seen on TV in the last 10-15 years, including The Sopranos. It has really slipped under the radar. To describe this show is actually really hard; it's a cop show, but it is SO MUCH MORE. One of the head writers, David Simon, has been a driving force of the creative team behind the series, which includes many of the same folks from the excellent series Homicide on NBC in the 90s, which was based on Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The writing, characters, story lines, plot development, acting, directing, production value, editing, is all outstanding. It has really great depth, and you cannot not watch it passively; you have pay attention. You have to have some willingness to get involved in it. Each season has also explored different topics as a background and subtext to the plot lines and characters. Last season it was the failure of public education, in Baltimore specifically, but also in the much broader context of the failure of public education in general. The season before that explored drug reform in an urban environment, approached from a variety of perspectives.
Really great stuff.
Starts Jan. 6th.
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