If indeed I’m not just writing to myself and any clients or potential clients are reading this you may be wondering what am I going to do a with all of these wandering desert photos?

There is a point. When I’m running around taking pictures that please my own eye there is less of a need to be a temperamental artist when I’m shooting for you. At times a project requires me to be a craftsman instead of an artist. That is fine with me. I respect craftsmanship and and can go off wandering in the desert to make my own art next weekend. I’m here to do your job.

Feeding my artistic soul at the Met

There are also times that my experimental shooting ends up as a solution in an assignment. This happened recently from a visit to the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met and the British Museum do a much better job of displaying the wonders of Egypt than I actually saw when I was in Egypt.

Shaded window exploration leads to solution

I bounced from the ancient Egyptian collection to the modern Calder jewelry and along the way I discovered the solar window shades in a stairway looking out into Central Park. This didn’t result in a great photo, but the idea led me to an interesting solution when I returned to my normal beat of making portraits of doctors.

The same solar shades covered the windows of a doctor

A couple of days later back in Los Angeles I walked into the office of the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai and see the same shades. After some finessing of my lights I was able to show Dr. Glenn Braunstein in front of a subdued courtyard setting that is partially obscured by the window shade.

Mark Harmel
harmelphoto.com

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