PhotoRecon
Senior Member
It was actually one of the two D2Xes which fell to the ground & split wide open this year, and the year I've obtained a much needed, second D3; although, it was also a year which had been overly high & dry for me, financially. Almost devastating.
It was the year I finally landed my first big-money project, after having chiseled away for three years at trying to obtain it. And was the year I actually laid super-low within the airshow industry, after harmfully posting here on this board an adventure story which alluded to a personality conflict I had unwantingly had with one of the industry's promoters - someone who I still truly desire to befriend.
It was a year that I was finally able to do a fair amount of unique, in-your-face type work, which is 100-precent pure to me & my personality; and was also a year that I was able to finally experiment with an af-s 600mm f/4 lens, often firing the camera with it at ridiculously slow shutter speeds. One 60th of a second, for example.
It was a year that I rode on helicopter skids & positioned myself on the outer-side of fast flying airplanes. A year that I painfully photoed from a room of fire at some 500-degrees Fahrenheit - without melting the camera (due to its newly made fire coat - out of BBQ grill gloves). And of course, a super-lucky year that the camera & I watched a townhouse burning down, after having ridden to the hot scene in the City's brand new, overly nice ladder fire truck - complete with blaring sirens & blinking red lights. One, very coool truck !!!
It was a year which I was able to meet & photo some VIP's whom I never believed could possibly cross my path; and the fourth year in a row I placed first in an international photo & marketing contest - though this year's win came without my even bothering to enter.
And importantly, it was the year I was able to capture my beloved dog, Grady, in a photo I highly doubt I'll ever be able to top: that which she's in her exact element - covered with both deer & raccoon poop, plus that of swamp mud.
Photo-wise, a somewhat okay year, perhaps - I got by. But in full honest, unless my company is better managed, this next year will be a far less rosy entry of a thread.
thanks for looking & cheers to ya,
marc
http://marcstpierrephotography.com
It was the year I finally landed my first big-money project, after having chiseled away for three years at trying to obtain it. And was the year I actually laid super-low within the airshow industry, after harmfully posting here on this board an adventure story which alluded to a personality conflict I had unwantingly had with one of the industry's promoters - someone who I still truly desire to befriend.
It was a year that I was finally able to do a fair amount of unique, in-your-face type work, which is 100-precent pure to me & my personality; and was also a year that I was able to finally experiment with an af-s 600mm f/4 lens, often firing the camera with it at ridiculously slow shutter speeds. One 60th of a second, for example.
It was a year that I rode on helicopter skids & positioned myself on the outer-side of fast flying airplanes. A year that I painfully photoed from a room of fire at some 500-degrees Fahrenheit - without melting the camera (due to its newly made fire coat - out of BBQ grill gloves). And of course, a super-lucky year that the camera & I watched a townhouse burning down, after having ridden to the hot scene in the City's brand new, overly nice ladder fire truck - complete with blaring sirens & blinking red lights. One, very coool truck !!!
It was a year which I was able to meet & photo some VIP's whom I never believed could possibly cross my path; and the fourth year in a row I placed first in an international photo & marketing contest - though this year's win came without my even bothering to enter.
And importantly, it was the year I was able to capture my beloved dog, Grady, in a photo I highly doubt I'll ever be able to top: that which she's in her exact element - covered with both deer & raccoon poop, plus that of swamp mud.
Photo-wise, a somewhat okay year, perhaps - I got by. But in full honest, unless my company is better managed, this next year will be a far less rosy entry of a thread.
thanks for looking & cheers to ya,
marc
http://marcstpierrephotography.com
I truly enjoy many of your images and find both composition and technical quality exciting and inspiring, much in the same way as Joe McNally's images, although he's a bit on the fancy side when it comes to da lightnin' stuff.