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She's Lost Her Charm

Happy Valentines' Day everyone.

Dickens Christmas Fair - Coffee Table Book

I know it's been awhile.  I've been busy with photography just not so busy keeping my end up on this blog.

Anyway, if you're interested, I recently made this:

Dickens Christmas Fair - 2011 by Rhett Redelings | Make Your Own Book

Little Red Sisyphus

little red sisyphus, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

Where you're going and where you've been don't matter half as much as where you are right now.

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Lensbaby Composer
Canon Rebel T1i
DXO Filmpack 2

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day!, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

You'll never miss it 'til it's gone.

practice makes purple

practice makes purple, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

For my birthday this year, my wife bought me a Lensbaby Composer. Unlike the lensbaby muse, which is what I was familiar with, it's a bit less intuitive to use but, again, unlike the muse, you can lock your setting and really fine tune it. This set represents my first steps using this special effect.

Pinning the Badge

Pinning the badge, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

Take a camera with you everywhere you go, including your place of work and eventually you'll find yourself shooting official events. And some not so official events.

What makes these kinds of photo opportunities different from my usual attempts at art is the hyper focus and exhilaration one gets when completely focused (no pun intended) on capturing glimpses of authenticity in the heat of the moment. Composition is important, as always but more important is being in the right place at the right time and anticipating, or allowing for, those slices of time when people forget to be "perfect" and allow themselves to be genuine, vulnerable and, every so often, truly remarkable. After all, it is our humanity that makes people love us, not our ability to hit the mark, no?

This kind of photography is like panning for gold with a stop watch going. There's no time to stand still or for taking a break; every moment is spent scanning for those opportunities (before they manifest) as events rush past like water. They are few and far between, particularly in official events but the promise of finding and capturing them is what keeps me going.

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These photos were taken during the official swearing in of new Sausalito Police Chief Jennifer Tejada on March 17, 2011
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What would the Federal Budget look like if *you* were in charge?

a requiem for main street, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

I was able to make a balanced budget that would reduce the deficit and increase public services by adding just a tiny tax increase to people who make as much as I do or more and by bringing the military budget down to just 10 times what we spend on education (instead of more than 60 times the amount).

What would you do differently if you could?

http://public-consultation.org/exercise/

Lost in the dark

Lost in the dark, originally uploaded by Rhett Redelings.

A week or so ago my friend Anderspace (http://www.flickr.com/photos/anderspace/) brought over a Polaroid 230 Land Camera that he'd picked up at an estate sale. I finally got around to getting a 4.5v battery for it (actually 3 1.5v batteries) and set about loading a pack of "super speedy" Fuji FP-3000b film. Almost none of it came out. This shot, the best of 6, was taken in nearly broad daylight. For film this fast, that should have been far too much light, rather than too little so I obviously have some work to do getting this camera to work. Anyway, I thought the "negative" side of the image looked nicer than the positive, I darkened the scan a bit and here you go.