Physical and emotional ramblings of a commercial artist married to a family therapist …
Rebecca was working on the plant floor at a client’s facility in South Carolina and we were working on building a library of images that documented their reclamation processes. We were doing the typical “diversity dance” where we needed to get a broad selection of the different folks who work in the facility.
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"Bird" learning piano
These days, the statement I hear most often from new clients is “I have to own these images”. But I always wonder, what does that really mean? If you’ve said that to a photographer, what does it mean to you?
As I mentioned in the last email of the oncologic surgeon, what I love the most about the work that I do is that I meet all sorts of people all the time! Whether they’re doctors, CEO’s, executives or workers on the plant floor, I have to be able to get them relaxed and comfortable quickly so that I can get the images that I need, either for myself or for my clients.
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My wife’s paternal uncle is 93 years old and has been living in the same house since he was 6 years old. His wife died 4 years ago and he’s been living on his own in Brooklyn since then and there have been two women who come in everyday to cook and clean for him; one is there Monday to Friday and the other comes in on Saturday & Sunday.
I love meeting people of all walks of life! I realized a number of years ago that that is what I really enjoy the most about my life as a commercial photographer and what challenges me the most. And then I came to understand that photography was the perfect tool for me to meet new people all the time.
Had a great time today with the daughters of two of my friends from our newspaper days together. As part of my celebration of the holidays, I decided that I’d offer my friends the opportunity of having some fun in front of the camera. and hopefully they and I would get some good b&w portraiture at the same time.
They were naturals in front of the camera!
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A good friend [who appears in the column at right, Bill Kenny] just turned me on to a BBC website where you can be told where you are in birth order amongst the 7 billion people who now inhabit the world. Now that’s a very good use of the technology. I guess that would make my brother around the 1.5Bth and maybe my sister the 1.9Bth [ 
sorry guys!]
OK, so what does that mean? The BBC also put seven video reports on the same site to give us all a bit of perspective on the way others live around the world and what the population explosion means to them. It’s always so eye opening to see the way others live in different parts of the world!
For the past three years Audrey and I have been members of a local CSA [Community Supported Agriculture] farm in our area. We pay one fee in the early spring and then once a week on Tuesdays we drive down to the farm and pick up our allotment of freshly picked fruits, vegetables, root crops, herbs, lettuces, eggs and other things organic.
I went up to Vermont this past weekend with a friend who has a house in Woodstock. Early Saturday morning we went out to Jenne Farm which is supposed to be the most photographed farm in New England or North America [there are over 2,520,000 listings on Google!]. Seems every camera club in the world [literally!] goes there at sunrise to shoot the sun as it comes up over the hills. I’m just blown away that so many people go to exactly the same place to get exactly the same picture. Apparently there’s a brochure that was written forty years ago that actually tells people exactly where to put their tripod legs and I’ve heard that people will fight over getting that specific spot. People from all over the world!
Pixie with her scar
Pixie has had a mast cell tumor on her left flank for about four years and it was getting to be about the size of my fist and looked as if it was just about to burst so we took her to the vet to have it removed last Friday. It wasn’t attached to anything and was totally in that flap of skin between her left leg and her torso. Surgery went well although it took a bit longer then the vet was expecting.
Hi, I'm Nat Clymer and this is the blog where I put my musings and ramblings of thirty plus years as a commercial photographer and observer of humankind.