Skitzy Spotts

"For me, sitting still is harder than any kind work."  ~Annie Oakley 

"I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either."   ~also by Annie Oakley 

Percolate

Thoughts on a cool morning and an approaching storm.

Maggie

Capturing motion, while certainly not essential, just really adds something when you get it just right. Which is the never-ending search, but not entirely elusive. The key is to just keep looking for it, while you keep doing all your other stuff in your little bag of tricks. The thing is, if you just tried to always capture movement, that's what all of your images would look like— like someone who's always trying to capture movement, and sometimes nailing it. That's a redundant look, with unfortunately more misses than hits. When you're always looking for it, but still doing all of your other things— you'll occasionally get it, but your overall work won't look like that's your only quest.

Ajaye

There’s something pure about a portrait, a continuum that stretches back to the beginning of photography. An image that tries to capture the raw and unrefined truth— the sitter and what they’re wearing and how they hold and present themselves to the world. It’s photography as the uneasy balance between performance and reality. It's how we dress and how our attitude mediates between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us, the formality of a suit and/or dress, or the informality of a hoodie and/or t-shirt that shows who we are... at that moment in time.

Natalie

 Smoke & Mirrors.