What Am I Doing? [4.18]
What a roller coast of emotions this week! Maybe even more like a glass case of emotion. Between visiting wounded Marines and traveling to NYC to visit family, I’ve been all over the place, but the running around has been much needed this week. This coming week will be a little more subdued, so maybe [...]
The Road To Where?
I’m lying in bed last night, wondering what the fuck I’m doing. Across from my bed rests part of a Starbucks apron, framed and the words “Providence Will Miss You” surrounding it. Glowing from my television is an episode of Scrubs, and I watch the characters gather happily at the end of the episode like [...]
What Am I Doing? [3.28]
I have a love/hate relationship with the beginnings of spring, and if you know me as a person at all, you’re highly shocked that I love anything about the spring at all. I get really bad allergies, bugs and gnats start popping up all over the place, and the tourists return to DC to flood [...]
What Am I Doing? [3.15]
I wish every week was like last week. Last week, I expressed that it was going to be the first week I would shoot a live concert, and I was freaking out, man! Ok, not so much “freaking out”, but considering Andrew – a well-versed concert photographer – has recommended me to welovedc.com, I put [...]
What Photographers Say To Each Other In E-Mail Form
Yesterday, I brought up that Andrew and I had a conversation on a variety of subjects. I wanted to bring up the lack of originality and how nothing is new in the post, but then Andrew starts invading my twitter stream with other things we talked about that night. So, we got the idea to [...]
Nothing Is New
“Are you kidding me? I thought the concert was TODAY, not TOMORROW!” I was supposed to meet up with Andrew to see Tim Reynolds as he shot the band at State Theater in Falls Church. Well, that was the original plan. However, a little SNAFU meant he and I were catching up and drinking at [...]
Role Reversal – What It’s Like Being Photographed
As you may recall, Andrew and I had a photography session with Alicia Griffin last Sunday, and the entire time, I was thinking, “this would be great to blog about!” Ok, I was actually thinking, “I must look like an IDIOT!” Nonetheless, I did feel like I should share my experience being on the flip [...]
What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
I’ve got a bad case of Earworm embedded in my genes. I have this tendency to get a song stuck in my head first thing when I wake up, and throughout the rest of the day, that song – and maybe other songs by the same artist – will cycle through my head like a [...]
Number One Hundred!
So today is yet another milestone. Write it down, people: February 11th, 2011 = my 100th post. 2/11/11. Holy crapola! And after seeing over 200 hits from Wednesday’s post about one of my faves, Summer Amin, I feel like I’ve got to really step it up today. I should’ve planned this a while ago and [...]
How Are Your Clients Doing?
I was trying to decide what I should write about today and reminiscing about previous shoots and the days of yore. Shoots gone bad, shoots gone great, and shoots gone everywhere in between. I’ve been staying in touch with a few of the clients I’ve had, following up on how their business is [...]
Desiring Ambition
“To want and to be ambitious, to want to be successful is not enough – that is just desire.” – Kevin Spacey My peers are lost, wandering aimlessly around this city, this planet, desperate for understanding. My generation are confused individuals without a comprehension of what they’re searching for and why. Everywhere I turn in [...]
What Am I Doing? [1.18]
© patrick onofre photography 2010 I wasn’t feeling well at all this past weekend. Maybe that explains everything. No pre-planned blog posts done. No Martin Luther King Day special. Nothing completed for Fuel Your Photography. I was in a funk. My creativity and motivation took a huge hit. I had a three-day weekend in front [...]
What Am I Doing? [1.3]
I’ve got a case of having a holiday hangover. I’m having difficulty with getting myself started back up again, and I’d much rather relive New Year’s Eve over and over again, when I wasn’t doing anything more than hanging out with friends and not having a care in the world. You know, not being so [...]
My Photography Bucket List
It all stemmed from staring at the scattered remains of my failed attempts at a Project 365. As I looked back at some of the images I had taken, it led me to other photos I have taken over the past few years. I saw the progression in my images, noticed that I developed a [...]
Writer’s Block
Everyone always asks me how do I do it; how do I take a picture. It’s a concept that escapes a lot of aspiring photographers, but with my expert How To guide I’m about to write, you will be taking pictures in no time! Follow these simple instructions to produce professional-quality images like me!
What Am I Doing? [12.13]
I fell in love this weekend. Yes, ladies and gentlemen: I have confirmed that I have found the love of my life, and I’m not afraid to tell the world. It was love at first sight, and ever since that first moment when I laid my eyes upon such a thing of beauty, I knew [...]
What Am I Doing? [12.6]
I had a little moment of win this morning: after nearly two months of being crammed into a corner with another person in a one-person cubicle, I finally got my own space. It’s amazing how I no longer feel tense by the mere fact that I can stretch my legs. The sun seems to shine [...]
Lessons From Baseball
You would think I would block out a story like this from my memory, but because of what I learned from it, and who it has shaped me to be, I’m going to let it stay in the ol’ noggin. When I was in elementary school, I would go to my grandparents’ house during the [...]
What To Do Now?
So, here’s the thing: today marks the first day of officially being the Editor-in-Chief for Fuel Your Photography. I’ve got a lot planned for it, and I’m really excited to start executing my mission in making FYP the go-to destination for all your photography desires. That’s all fine and good, but it sort of made [...]
What Am I Doing? [11.22]
Well, then. Looks like my last blog post got a lot of attention, huh? The funny part about it was that, at the time, I wasn’t totally sure what to write about, so I simply started writing to the Uncle Bobs that Alicia and I had met in our previous wedding we shot together while [...]
Style Points
I woke up this morning and during my usual bout of pre-caffeinated narcissism, where I scan my work to see what I’ve created lately, I came to yet another epiphany. Sort of.
DC Art Scene Manifesto – a Prelude
If I may be so bold, and with permission to be blunt, the art scene in Washington, DC, is terrible. Horrible. Disgraceful. Pathetic. Uninspiring. In a word: bullshit.
What Am I Doing? [11.1]
It’s November already?! Sheesh! Just yesterday, it was October! What’s going on here??
Vision
[vi-zhun] – noun 1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight. 2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be 3. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation