Empirical Photographic Arts

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
- Movie Quote from ‘Rocky Balboa’

Now go get’m tiger!

We photographed this guys wedding a while back, before the fallout  of coarse. Now, it’s taking what you can get and dealing with it. I will keep his identity secret for know…the living dead seem to have memories. I’m not taking any chances.

At Pointe du Hoc (sometimes erroneously known as Pointe du Hoe following a typographical error by an American military cartographer^[1][2]) the Germans had built, as part of the Atlantic Wall, six casemates to house a battery of captured French 155mm guns. With Pointe Du Hoc situated between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east, these guns threatened Allied landings on both beaches, risking heavy casualties in the landing forces. Although there were several bombardments from the air and by naval guns, intelligence reports assumed that the fortifications were too strong, and would also require attack by ground forces. The U.S. 2nd Ranger Battalion was therefore given the task of destroying the strongpoint early on D-Day.

Prior to the attack, the guns were moved approximately 1 mile away; however, the concrete fortifications were intact, and would still present a major threat to the landings if they were occupied by artillery forward observers. The Ranger Battalion commanders and executive officers knew the guns had moved, but the rest of the Rangers were not informed prior to the attack.^[3] The popular perception that the guns were “missing” on D-Day may be attributed to this decision not to inform the troops prior to the attack.

I myself spent 9 years in the army and could not imagine what our troops have been through or are going through. Thank-you all. D

I have had the pleasure of photographing Lindsay and Jack’s children over the last couple years so it’s neat looking through old shots and seeing how they have changed. Lindsay and I go back a ways and after our little stint in the WNBA it is great to see her again back in our home town again, lol! This last Ronson family shoot I got to meet the rest of the gang….dogs included. We got lucky with the weather and had a great shoot at Mohawk Park in Brantford Ontario.

I’m including a couple shots from our first session together….the one and only time Talia was ready and willing to be photographed.  We’ll get you yet Talia!

 Our busiest year yet, but I still found the chance to take a weekend off last month and drove around Muskoka with my good friend Dan of DEW Imagery. It was the only weekend off this year (since spring). We have some big plans for the winter (photographically) so please check back.  This particular image was shot from the side of the road somewhere in Muskoka on a Canon g10 and is part of the Canon g10 art project. It’s not the gear, it’s the talent!