Four days in my favorite city with one of my personal photo deities, Joe McNally?! Oh yes! And that wasn't all. I got to spend some great time with my cousin and his family that live in the city AND one of my oldest and best friends, who I had not seen for nine years, attended the workshop with me! It was an epic trip filled with photo enlightenment, good times, and lots of insight into the art and science of photography.
One of my goals for the trip was to shoot a portrait of Joe. I wanted to create an image of Joe that would be distinct from all the images made of Joe I'd seen before. So, below you'll see the results, which I am quite pleased with.
Ok, not really, but this shot of Joe does make me smile, and gives you an idea of the goofy side of Joe McNally. However, what I wanted to attempt to touch upon was some of the other sides of Joe - his passion and commitment to the technical and artistic bag of snakes that is photography. And, yeah, I really am quite pleased with it.
Joe is a man whose has weathered the ups and downs of life and keeps driving forward. He is driven. He is passionate. And yet he doesn't take himself or the work he has created too seriously. He works to find the joy in his life and and in his work. So many people seem to only see the jokester side of Joe, so I wanted to attempt to capture something of the other side.
Below are a few of the images from my time in San Francisco. I'll follow up with some more later.
