Thomas Mosiej

Thomas Mosiej, originally uploaded by lightwriter27.

Thomas Mosiej asked me if, "I was the girl from Chicago" I said, "I was not." He was sad. The photographer who was originally going to do Tom's portrait called in sick at the last minute and I filled in for her. I guess they both were from Chicago and he was pumped to talk to her about their mutual city. I've never been to Chicago, not yet at least, and was a poor replacement for reminiscing purposes, but he showed me some of his architecture designs of a clock tower that he want's to be his legacy. It was cool. Designed completely in American style, but no one has wanted to commission to build it yet. I hope someone does.

Too Abstract

I recently shot this assignment of a church support group and it felt like a dry environment to work in. Maybe 12 people were present and half didn't want to be photographed for sensitivity reasons. It was a big empty church room and the scope of it ran like a church service. So, I attempted to try to shoot things a little more abstract in order to keep my creativity going. It's not often I get feedback from editors on photos. On these, I was told they were different, in a good way, but the editors wanted to know if I had a general overall shot. Mistake: no i didn't. Shame on me: yes. I asked if they were too abstract. And I was told, "yeah, at least for you." What does that mean? Am I not allow to be or incapable of being abstract. Well, bummer either way.