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I very, very rarely shoot other people. Maybe half a dozen people have a photo of themselves that I took that wasn't just a quick snapshot at a show or a club somewhere. When someone's in front of me, staring at me and waiting for me to instruct them on how to stand, I freeze up. No clue what to suggest. So when Nick asked if I wanted to get some pics of him working on a new piece, I was admittedly nervous, but I figured it'd be a good learning experience. Especially because he has one of those gorgeous expensive cameras that's way, way more horse than I'm used to having under me and I was itching to play with it.

It was nearly 3am and it's likely that we were less than sober. He's bleeding in at least three places and at this point I'm just praying that I don't drop this camera because it's probably worth more than my car. He didn't really deviate from his painting ritual, didn't so much as make eye contact to break it, and I orbited him taking a shot whenever I saw something that interested me enough to try to catch it. I've never really played with a camera that had so much manual everything and I was horrible with exposure and ISO and focus and whathaveyou but I like how this one turned out. It was easily the best of the lot and I explained a little about why when he posted it on his Facebook:

"I think it's the absolute concentration, he's completely absorbed and focused in what he's doing. Unguarded. Nothing in the world exists except the circuit of eye, hand, brush, blood, and paper. Captured moment of creation, more intimate than sex and just as sacred."

Nothing else I can say. Eh-eh.

You can follow/view more of Nick's amazing pencil/bloodwork here on dA:

Description
I very, very rarely shoot other people. Maybe half a dozen people have a photo of themselves that I took that wasn't just a quick snapshot at a show or a club somewhere. When someone's in front of me, staring at me and waiting for me to instruct them on how to stand, I freeze up. No clue what to suggest. So when Nick asked if I wanted to get some pics of him working on a new piece, I was admittedly nervous, but I figured it'd be a good learning experience. Especially because he has one of those gorgeous expensive cameras that's way, way more horse than I'm used to having under me and I was itching to play with it.

It was nearly 3am and it's likely that we were less than sober. He's bleeding in at least three places and at this point I'm just praying that I don't drop this camera because it's probably worth more than my car. He didn't really deviate from his painting ritual, didn't so much as make eye contact to break it, and I orbited him taking a shot whenever I saw something that interested me enough to try to catch it. I've never really played with a camera that had so much manual everything and I was horrible with exposure and ISO and focus and whathaveyou but I like how this one turned out. It was easily the best of the lot and I explained a little about why when he posted it on his Facebook:

"I think it's the absolute concentration, he's completely absorbed and focused in what he's doing. Unguarded. Nothing in the world exists except the circuit of eye, hand, brush, blood, and paper. Captured moment of creation, more intimate than sex and just as sacred."

Nothing else I can say. Eh-eh.

You can follow/view more of Nick's amazing pencil/bloodwork here on dA: