>Wompapalooza
The dubsteppin’ put my heart in a different rhythm. I was jittery the next day. Jitterwomp jitterwubwubadupjitterwomp.
>Happy Easter from the Creepy Bunnies…
>I was walking to the bar and stumbled upon this scene. Kind of weird.
>The Great Feature Hunt Part II
>The Walker…I think it would be cool to go back and shoot more of this guy.
>It’s like f/8 and being there…
>But it’s 400mm and in your face.
Nathan Morgan assigned me a portrait of the 100th Eagle Scout from a troop in Midland. Originally he planned on a more documentary approach to the assignment, but the kid wasn’t going to be around, so portrait it was. He told me to go ahead and have some fun with it, so I busted out the $8+ grand lens…The 400mm f/2.8. Minimum focus distance. Wicked! Totally want to do a portrait series using that thing.
>Man With A Megaphone
>Just some dude spouting on about free thought and speech and stuff. Nothing new, nothing original.
Just a man with a megaphone…
>Learning style.
>Learning style is a learning curve. Quit over-thinking things and try them out. Maybe they work, maybe they don’t…Who knows. Gotta try it to find out. Yoda style, I suppose. So that’s what I’m doing. Couple features shot differently in between beard portrait shoots. It’s all a learning process.
>While recently I’ve been… Part II
>Taking pictures. Here’s some.
Special Olympics.
Dance practice.
Debate team. They talk fast.
Funny ski feech.
>Some old, some random.
>Some old and random frames.
Except this one, which was this week.
Summer. Coffee and cigarettes.
Christmas. Leah with her new headphones. Fall. Jake at Island Park.
Motor City Guitar is unorganized.
Christmas slippers.
>Squirrel!
>Nathan Morgan asked if I could find a weather feature or pictorial while I was dropping dumping photos from earlier assignments. I told him I’d see what I could find, but after scouring the events calenders, I found nothing. So I walked down to the Tridge hoping to find something weathery over there, but instead I found a squirrel. So I shot a squirrel. And wrote a ridiculous caption.
A fox squirrel nibbles on a nut securely gripped between its paws, its face lightly dusted with fresh snow Monday afternoon by the Tridge. The fox squirrel is the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America, thriving best among oak, hickory, walnut and pine trees that produce winter-storable foods. Sometimes being referred to as raccoon squirrel, or monkey-faced squirrel, they are also mistaken for red squirrels and grey squirrels, despite physical differences such as size and color. Fox squirrels rely on their agility, both climbing and jumping, to escape predators.
sean proctor | photojournalist 