Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

It is clear that Tay is some sort of fortune-telling, future seeing, voodoo master, because how else would he know to write a song called Chocolate Rain which could be easily remixed to sing the praises of Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr Pepper. Hold up. Hell no [shaking head, waving hands] I call bullshit on this, [...]

Years ago when I was living in PA, I worked at the now infamous (among my friends) and defunct Encore Books & Music in Mechanicsburg, PA. I worked there for a really long time – somewhere between five and six years, starting in high school and throughout college. The first few years at the store [...]

I’m in a lull. Unfortunately one of my major clients recently moved to Boston, and another is out on maternity leave for 8 months. Which leaves me with very little photography work and only a smattering of design work. The benefit to working for the man is that even when the workload is light I [...]

I’d forgotten how freakin’ hilarious animal is.

When I shoot a portrait, I love shooting a closeup of something in the room where the portrait is shot, or some detail of the subject’s clothing, and then pairing it up with the portrait image. I think it makes the portrait have much more impact. In this way, two or more photos can have [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I booked a shoot for a corporate portrait. Like most of the assignments I’m getting these days, this shoot was scheduled for a conference room, and we had plenty of time to accomplish what we had to do. Plus, there was the added bonus: the clients had budget for hair [...]

There is a TV commercial floating around lately promoting the idea that to offset your carbon footprint you should plant a tree. Trees help to filter out the bad stuff. The more trees, the more bad stuff you can filter. What struck me about the commercial was that it stated that one tree can offset [...]