Probably everyone who ever reads my dumb little site knows who Beth is. She was an intern at my advertising company (the only intern that ever hung out on my side of the office) and has assisted me on several weddings and shoots and let me practice techniques and whatnot on her. She’s pretty cool, for a girl. I wouldn’t quite call her a protégé, since she seems to have taken very little of my style with her (although I would argue that the stuff she produces now is at least moving in my direction; at least a part of my style seems to have transferred), but either way she’s a talented photographer, and definitely places a certain warmth in her photos that is quite appealing.

Anyway, you can check out her new site here. And, just for fun, here’s a picture of her.

I’ve always thought that if I went blind, I’d probably do something like this.

I’ve always secretly thought I would end up with complete amnesia some day, and forget everyone I know. It’s not much of a secret though, because I probably advertise more than is healthy the fact that I don’t remember any of my childhood, and in fact, do not remember any of my life before a year or two ago (and that number moves with me, so I won’t remember today two years from now, etc.). I’ve decided to essentially combat that problem by using my good friend, technology.

When I have downtime at home, and I’m just loafing around reading blogs or somesuch, I’ve taken to tagging friends’ names into photos of them in my Aperture library. This is comparatively easy with people I only recently met, or for those I’ve only met once (and taken pictures of them at that time) because their pictures are all in one place. But for people I’ve known for the past 3-4 years, esp. close friends, that means they’ve got pictures scattered all over the 62,000 shots I keep in there currently. It ends up being less boring than I thought it would be, because seeing all these times with friends ends up being pretty enjoyable, even if we all tend to look somewhat bored in the pictures. Refreshing all this regularly might help me remember stuff better, but even if not, I can at least check the metadata on a shot to see who my friends are.

As an aside, check out this guy Eric’s blog. He’s genius with sounds.