My Baby Just Cares For Me...

And I just care for my baby.

The final post of 2008 - ushering in 2009 - is a valentine to my lady.

To S, with love x

Some More Charlie.

A Bit of a Charlie.

Beverly Hills Santa...

It's true that Beverly Hills is disproportionately Jewish, as well as being one of the wealthiest city's, per capita, in the world. So shouldn't Santa be elsewhere, come to think of it? I'm just asking...

A Christmas Card From Los Angeles

Call Me Misty.

More Past Lives.

Jenine was a cocktail waitress in a Hollywood bar. Anna was Norwegian, in Hollywood for wholly unoriginal reasons (not least, unoriginal for a pretty girl). Jenine was offered a modeling opportunity at two agencies based on my photographs of her. I set up appointments for her and she didn't show up on three separate occasions. Neither of us profited then.

This was an accidental photograph,. Anna was holding a reflector for me. I told her to put the reflector down, hold on to Jenine a moment. Snap. I've always liked this image, and I took a lot of trouble printing it (its a poor quality scan). It was taken in a back alley near Sunset Blvd and La Brea Ave during a previous life.

The Birds.

There's a lot of them...four blocks worth of this.

Birdwatch 2

The Birds - they're coming...

(Side note - the pic below this one is a decent shot I think, but it loses some of its power when viewed next to this one. Point being, I suppose, that picture placement is an underrated art...something to consider at your next gallery show)

Hitchcock Was A Friend Of Mine

Part 1 in a series of bird images taken in downtown Austin.

The Missing Girl.

Having been born and raised in England's industrial north-west, my aesthetic is always pulled towards industrial images. For a long time I would compose images such as this, except that the image would often contain a woman too - my perspective on fashion, on female beauty etc. At the very least, it's the kind of fashion-based photography I aspired to.

Outside, It's America.

Why not?

Signs 3.

Emptiness - 24 hours a day.

Signs 2 : Anthony's

Signs 1.

Classic sign...

Autumn Light, Early Afternoon.

Lake Austin, from Mopac.

Third Eye Blind.

Relapse.

I'm still not sure what's going on with this blog, nor the direction it will take. Meanwhile, a couple of pictures presented themselves, so...