HAPPY HOUR!

HAPPY HOUR!, originally uploaded by Paul Joseph Photographs.

This is an out take from an editorial assignment.
While setting up a shot for the client my eye kept wandering in toward the center of the frame, so I zoomed in and shot a few frames.
It is one of those images that are snapped off in a moment of opportunity. Only to roll around in the back of my mind until I finally get around to letting it out.
The shot for the magazine was considerably more wide-angle.

I followed an old man 2

I followed an old man 2, originally uploaded by Paul Joseph Photographs.

Shooting on the street between meetings i kept running into this fellow. I think we were both walking in circles.

Let a smile be my umbrella

Atop the Musée d'Orsay
This photo always makes me smile.
Today, here in Vancouver, it's pissing down. Let a smile be my umbrella.

Elvis has left the building...and is taking requests at the curb

I have been having an immense amount of fun as of late photographing in public. I've always thought of myself as primarily a colour shooter. So I'm somewhat surprised by my inclination to interpret these results in black and white and not colour. It's a welcome reminder that an open mind is the best attitude with which to approach anything. The challenge of this type of work is that I'm relient upon my ability to recognise, compose and execute a photograph almost instantaneously. I don't have the luxury of pondering solutions to a photograph, I must quickly and effectively react to the events around me. Sometimes I fail and sometimes I succeed. I do not know at the time. I am trying to see, and this what i have been enjoying as of late. There is no client, this is simply a selfish act, a self-indulgence. It is joy.

The End of Summer

The end of summer is here.
Working the games at the Pacific National Exhibition

Forage

Forage, originally uploaded by Paul Joseph Photographs.

The wasp that had coffee with me this morning.

Doris and Sven

Two of my favorite portraits of two of my favorite people. Photographed in Paris between June 8th and June 10th, 2006. Paris just had this amazing light that flooded the shade.