Dubai - Week 1
The Journey was long but well worth it. After a not-so-terrible 17 hour flight plus another 3-4 hours of airport and transit nonsense I finally arrived in the desert oasis known as Dubai, an emirate (i.e. state) of the United Arab Emirates, aka U.A.E. While the flight and all wasn't so bad, there was one major foul up that really grinded my gears: Lufthansa forgot to put by bag on the airplane...Thanks Lufthansa; what happened to German efficiency? I digress. I was off the ai
Post Process Pinup
The pinup. Predating the likes of playboy by about 60 years. One of the first images that certainly evoked a lot of emotions and then some. Photographs of the style became popular as cameras became more prevalent, and advertising agencies realized that putting a beautiful woman on products sells to both men and women. Then computers came around, the internet, and well, the rest is history. The pinup was forgotten; until recently, anyway. Popularized during the 1940s, the pinu
First Post: Evoking Emotion
Shock From the moment I decided to pickup a professional camera, I knew it was to evoke an emotion in those who saw my photographs and projects. With the inauguration of the askario journal, I felt it was fit to start with a photo from the New Year's Eve 2016. I flew to San Francisco, CA this past NYE to spend the evening with some old and new friends. Since I have voluntarily become the group photographer among many of my friends, I naturally took my camera to capture whatev
