SANDY'S BLOG

1. Prayer before 1900 pounds of muscle and fury

   September 25, 2023
   On a summer night in 2021, I had the opportunity to shoot a rodeo in Dickson Tennessee. I’ve been to a couple of rodeos as a ticket holder, however as a photographer I got to go behind the scenes. What I discovered broadened my perception of a rodeo cowboy and…

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2. Memorable Photoshoots in Nashville,TN - part 4 John Hiatt

   September 20, 2023
   Back in 1993 I had the honor of working with John Hiatt producing photography for his “Perfectly Good Guitar” album https://www.thejohnhiattarchives.com/album/perfectly_good_guitar/index.html. The photographer I was assisting was Mark Seliger https://markseliger.com/ and we were shooting on John’s Tennessee farm property outside of Nashville. The whole crew had great energy for this…

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3. All it takes is imagination and a flashlight!

   September 10, 2023
   Photography in its purest form is made up of light and a light-tight box with a photo-sensitive backing and preferably a lens at the other end. This is something that has not changed since an Englishman Henry Fox Talbot had a breakthrough in 1835  (although Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce achieved rough…

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