New Photo Blog on Wordpress

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New Photo Blog started at http://aaronturnerphoto.wordpress.com/

I was going for a more smoother sleek look and just couldn't find that on blogger.  

Exploring Memphis

A few weeks into the summer and this week I'm finally catching up on some blogging. I'm really getting to know myself more as a photographer and the reasons why I get the type of images I do and the type of images I don't, and thats a breakthrough for me. This summer my focus is to just make more meaningful images no matter the situation, just being a photographer at all times whether its a news assignment, fashion, nature, serious or not serious I just want to try and make interpretive and creative images. 

These images just come from a random call I got one day after photographing the guy above in the blue shirt, Lil Noid or Derrick Harris. He called me up and told me he was going to show me his old neighborhood he grew up in before going to jail. This is a well known area in Memphis called Binghamton. 

The set of images made in the studio is where Derrick took me after we left his neighborhood and went to where he records his music, this area of memphis is called Mitchell Heights. It was my first time going here but I really would like to go back and walk around to explore, I haven't done as much as I would like to this summer. 

Enjoy, feel free to leave a comment.

(some photos may appear not sharp viewing in the post alone, so click the image to see full resolution quality)

Syracuse, New York Part. 2

Randoms from Spring Semester

"Photography isn't just photography its everything else"

Outtakes from Winter Break 

"Photography isn't just photography its everything else" a phrase that came to my mind after class one day. I don't know why I thought it, maybe from looking at so many images and taking so many images and knowing the things that go into making all these various images, I feel different about photography now. Not until this year have I really embraced that photography is more than just right place, right time, click of the shutter, its everything that took place before that and afterwards. Think about it for a minute. All the things we learn as photographers in class and in the field, photography is so much more than what you thought it was starting out in this profession. Key things that keep me motivated in photography these days are others peoples work, staying creative, and Instagram. Helping people with my photography is the realm I want to step into next, starting this semester, and hopefully I will step into that area. 

Enjoy these images taken over the break from Ohio to Memphis to Virginia.