The somewhat coherent ramblings of a baseball obsessed photographer living in the coldest place on earth.

I obviously was a little off in my last update when I promised to upload new pictures shortly. However, the new photos are finally up and viewable in the recent projects gallery.

When I returned home from traveling this summer, spending an all too short period of time in NYC and Montréal, I decided I wanted to process all of the photos from each city in a similar manner, creating a definite series of images.

However, I struggled with creating the look I wanted and applying it to all of the images in the series. After far too many months of agonizing over the photos, and reprocessing them many times, the floodgates finally opened this week and achieved what I had been struggling with since July.

Tonight I can finally go to sleep without the guilt of unfinished photos hanging over me. Relief is sweet.

I’ve recently returned from a trip to visit family in NY, which was very hectic and left me with a rather large backlog of pictures to process.

I’m working through them now, so in the near future I’ll get some new pictures up.

In the meantime, happy shooting.

One constant source of irritation for all photographers is the idea that it is the camera which does all of the work. I’ve always said, why is it that whenever someone looks at a great photograph they remark that you must have used a really nice camera, but no one ever looks at a Picasso and says that he must have used a really nice brush.

A camera, like a paintbrush, is simply a tool of the artist wielding it. I’ll admit that using pro gear generally provides a better tool with less limitations, but Picasso still could have created masterpieces with a handful of straw, and any photographer worth his salt should be able to make a fine showing with anything from a pinhole camera to pro gear.

Recently I was asked if it was possible to produce nice images with a point and shoot camera, and I decided to put myself to the test. My nieces were in town for Easter, presenting the perfect opportunity to grab my wife’s point and shoot and give it a whirl. The key to the exercise would be to entirely avoid the inherit weaknesses of a P&S, while maximizing its advantages. This meant outdoor/daylight only. On camera flash and good photographs are like oil and water. They just don’t mix. The obvious advantage of the camera was its size and weight. I could easily slip it into a pocket, and use it in situations where my normal gear would be far too cumbersome. A visit to a local playground drove this point home, as the camera came with me on all manner of equipment.

Above is a series of images from that day. Was it a success? I can’t decide for you, but I’d be satisfied with images of these quality any day. The real kicker is that I captured some images that I wouldn’t have with my normal gear.

Picasso probably would have told me that its not about using the best brush on the market, but the right one for the job.