Who Would Have Guessed A Trip To The Zoo Would Be So Intense...
After my short summer of working on magnified eye shots and trying to figure out the world of digital photo, I had to quickly figure out what my thesis project was going to be... Feeling pretty strongly that if I continued with my sports photography, that it would be a cop-out, and wanting to be respected as more than just a jock photographer, I decided a trip to the zoo would give a refreshing change of subjects...
Turns out, this trip to Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, MA, would not only be a necessary escape from the stresses of senior year, but the home of the individuals that I would spend the next year shooting for my photography senior thesis...
"The photos are spectacular -- everything I could have wanted. Thanks so much for helping us to remember such a warm, funny, important, and enjoyable day. It's all here -- and everybody seems so true to themselves and to how I would most like to think of them. There's such a great range here, the lighting is terrific -- the still lifes, the candid shots of the whole afternoon and evening, the somewhat more formal poses -- even those are full of life and fun. Peter and Sarah are just glowing and you captured that beautifully. They chose to marry in Phippsburg because of their love for that place and the setting is used to great effect. Thanks for agreeing to do this for us. It is truly a wonderful gift." -Gail Ringel
Great Quotes... Great Photographers...
..."Sounds excessive, maybe even paranoid, [referring to the amount of equipment and file back-up procedures he uses on a location job] but every good location photographer knows that the operative laws of our universe are written by Murphy."
-Bob Kirst, Anatomy of a Travel Assignment in American Photo Magazine May/June 2008
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