Late-night shoot prep!
My most productive time of day is late at night into the early morning hours after everyone is sound asleep in bed. Presently wrapping up sketches and prep work for tomorrow’s shoot, a project that has been long in the making and is finally getting off the...
6 Photography Lessons from a Combat Sniper
We see them in movies, we watch History Channel specials about them, and they are the things of which legends are made. Surprisingly, no, I’m not referring to UFOs. We’re talking about combat snipers, those lethal ghosts in face paint shifting in the shadows. I began...
Shooting a Commercial Image with Trash and Walmart Gear
Want to see some of the method behind the madness? I share a little of it right here! I attribute a great portion of my rekindled interest in photography to the late Bill Simone, a phenomenal commercial photographer whose work for one of my previous employers was...
Eric Slodysko – Central PA Head Shots
I recently had the privilege of working with model, actor, and quasi-philosopher Eric Slodysko on a new portrait series for agency reps. It was a blast working with him…not only did we create some moving images, but we had a lot of fun along the way! (Outtakes...A Foray Into Classic Portraiture {Central PA Lifestyle Photography}
While the majority of my work revolves around an unplanned, real-life, lifestyle photography approach, there is something to be said about the timeless value of portrait photography. From the three-dimensional “portraits” sculpted by the Greek masters to...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.