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4.17.2012

Video of the Week: Mary Ellen Mark

A short video about Mary Ellen Mark's Prom photos using a 20x20 land camera. (aphotoeditor)

3.16.2012

New Gig: The Palmian Chord Ryddle

Here's a great gig that landed in my lap. I had the opportunity to photograph and film promo of the concerto of The Palmian Chord Ryddle by influencial, innovative composer Terry Riley. Performed by accomplished electric violinist Tracy Silverman. It was my honor to work with these guys. Tracy and his manager Mitchell Korn drove me up to Indianapolis to meet Terry and shoot the promo photos and video there at the performing art center.

Here's the video (first draft):

The Palmian Chord Ryddle from Martin Cherry on Vimeo.

Again, many thanks to Mitchell, Tracy and Terry.

Update: The video above has been re-edited with a few tweaks to the text.

3.10.2012

Gig: Local Table

Duck Breast on Sweet Potato Ash

Nashville magazine Local Table gave me a really cool assignment to photograph Table 3, a semi-new restaurant in the Green Hills area. All the food, by Chef Will Uhlhorn, are from local farmers in the Middle Tennessee and Central Kentucky Region. Pick up a copy of Local Table in Nashville.

Pork Belly with Polenta Cake

Chef Will Uhlhorn

Many thanks to Lisa Shively and Table 3.

2.28.2012

DC Photo Blog

Check out my good friend's photo blog, Visions in the Capital. Lydia, who is a wonderful photographer herself, has nice posts that brings discussions about photographers, artists and DC life. Click over to the site and follow!

2.15.2012

Video of the Week: Know your Rights!!!

Awesome ACLU sponsored video about photographers rights!!!

Read more on here!

(via a Photo Editor)

2.14.2012

New gig: Table 3

This was shot with my iPhone!!! I did use my DSLR for the actual shoot. The gig was for a local magazine Local Table. More to come after the shots go to print. Also, check out Table 3.

2.09.2012

More Yoga

I photographed my friend Sarah again. She wanted stuff for her business cards. I volunteered to design them; since it's featuring my photos. Designing these were very invigorating! I haven't really dived into post production photo process as much recently. Most of my work have been in journalism recently. I tend not to add colors, text or use many filters and other tools not allowed in the journalism world. It was a lot of fun. I still want to play with it more. Here are some examples.

2.07.2012

DC trip

For New Year's Day, I travelled up to Frederick, Md and D.C.. I stayed with my friends Nessa and her husband Josh. Who just moved to the area from Austin. Here's a little montage of my trip little over a month ago.

See these and more on my Flickr

1.18.2012

Instagram!

A few months ago, I bought the new iPhone 4s. I bought the app Instragram. It's an app that turns your images into a lo-fi medium format camera by using post filters. I kinda thought this was a kitchy thing to do, but that was before owning an iPhone. Now it's my favorite app. What makes it stand out beyond other is the connection with photo friends who uses the app. Here are some the images that i have taken since downloading the app.

Video of the Week: Yoga By Equinox

Yoga theme continues.

Thanks Lacey for showing me this!

1.11.2012

Happy New Year 2012

Before the new year, I photographed my friend and yoga instructor, Sarah Plotkin. She was so much fun to shoot. The contortions her body made were so amazing to photograph. I really want to do video of her getting into these positions. Here are some images, more on my flickr.