Just had a conversation with my buddy Bill today. Both of us noted with wry satisfaction and a collective sigh of relief that we seemed to have dodged the current economic bullet by both continuing to endeavor in that relentlessly upbeat, growth area of the American marketplace, print media. Whew! And, as Bill reminded me, I needn’t fret over the future of McNally Photography, or, as he has been wont to call it, McNallyCo International. In his words, “Don’t worry about your company, Joe. Its just too big to let fail.”
Dang, I feel better already!
Speaking of print media, I shot the October cover of the Geographic. Story on Neanderthals. As I mentioned to my editor, they got the right man for that job. More tk on the mysterious land inside the yellow border.
In Prague right now, one of my favorite places. Rolling through NY this weekend and will see the inside of Kennedy Airport only on my hop to Santa Fe, where I start teaching for the Geographic this Sunday. Always look forward to the Expeditions Workshop–lots of nice folks hanging about for a week, talking and shooting pix.
Teaching with my bud Jerry Courvoisier, who just came out with a new book, Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop.
Check out his podcast here.
Ya know, I tried to get Jer to jazz up the title a little. LESSONS FROM THE EDGE: SCREAMS IN THE PHOTOSHOP NIGHT! Or, DIE, DIE, LITTLE PIXEL! Or, even better, become the Russ Meyer of post with, FASTER PUSSYPIXEL, KILL, KILL!
But no. Anyway, its a corker, and definitely listen to the podcast. He knows his stuff.
My buddy Jay Mann, who shoots great stuff while he labors in midst of the geology and the oil of the Middle East, wrote in, curious about the highlight on Tom’s face in our backyard studio.
Can’t say with absolute certainty, but methinks its a bit of flash blowback from the MRI on the lower left, the lighter scan without alot of black area. seems logical, given the orientation of it on Tom’s face. Liked it, so let it stay. One of those happy accidents you tell your editor you planned:-)
The red and green tape on my SB800 units….used to make sense. We had some running on rechargeables, and others on straight up batteries. The tape told ’em apart. Now they’re all on recharge type bats, and the tape lingers. For, oh, about a year now. I’m on top of it, I tell ya…..more tk.
Joe,
What the heck is “tk”? I’ve googled it and nothing came back.
Love your blog. It is the standard by which I measure all others.
Thank.
Craig
Memphis, TN
Congrats on the cover shot.
Joe,
Not much to contribute here, neither I want to bug with my doubts about lighting and I do have many of those. Is just a note to tell you that I red “The moment it clicks” and learnt a good deal of things there. I’m totally new to this “strobes” world and I’m having a lot of fun in my dangerously steep “learning curve”.
Thanks a lot, ciao
Nicola
Did NG want to photograph YOU for their story? or did they want you photograph THEIR story? 🙂
JoeMc
“that we seemed to have dodged the current economic bullet”
Go on, rub it in.
I’m hip deep in MER … can I carry your bags?
Love the Neanderthal cover,
Ziv
I lived in Prague for a year when I was 24, 12 years ago now. It was 25 cents a beer then
Still to this day its my favourite place in the world.
Nothing can compare to a walk across Charles bridge at 6 AM in the Winter.
Except maybe sitting on Old town square at 6 AM during the Summer watching the sun coming up.
Went back a couple of years and its true, the more things change the more they stay the same
Hello Joe,
Kudos’s on Geographic for October 08.
My wife wonders if you hired me to be photographed!
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Mark Twain
Well said Sir Twain
My best to you.
Ken in KY
Neanderthals? What, they didn’t think you could grab them a cover of “Flamboyant Bee Eaters?”
Give Jersey a shout out when you pass through Kennedy…
Hahaha[:
I love your blog.
I tried to find neanderthals on ModelMayhem and couldn’t find any…where did you hire him? 🙂
Love your writing as well as your photography. Look forward to each post and your next book.
…more tk…let me guess, more to klick? more to konsider? more to know? more to…wonder what it could mean. Can’t kome up with an answer.
I’ve been waiting for your issue of nat. geo. for a while now, looking forward to it!!!
Craig — ‘more tk’ means ‘more to come’ I intrepret that to mean that Joe has more to say on this.. and in the fullness of time he’ll write more when and if he can.
Joe… I look forward to seeing you santa fe or tuscany one day… loved the DWLS workshop!
Ron
Hmm… More to kome?
Thanks for the info on the highlight. Congrats on the NG cover.
Still in the Desert,
Jay
Joe, is that a self portrait? teehee
I always wondered what that tape (on the 800s) was for… I thought it was for groups… 🙂
I got my NG the other day, and I just knew that was your cover shot.
(Of course, I thought you were on the other side of the lens, but I digress…)
Joe,
Great shot for the cover of NG 🙂 Look forward to attending your workshop in Santa Fe . . .
got the geographic today!!!
wonderful
Joe – love this blog! Wish I could get into your class at Santa Fe but Reid nixed me! Taking Heisler’s class instead though! By the way, the MRI in the lower left is upside down and looks alot like mine! Those ortho surgeons are great woodworkers!
One other question – what rechargeables do you use in the 800’s and 900’s? I kept having rechargeables over-heat in the battle of a wedding shoot… Thanks!
beautiful cover shot…i always enjoy seeing your images.