The Right Place

It was such a rewarding experience for me as an artist to be camped with other artists. Some of them I've worked with in the past. Camping in with a group that tries to not just "whoop it up," but actually puts on a real show makes for a very easy life for me. All I need do is wait and watch everything unfold. It's as if I live in the set of my imagination. The exchange of creative energy is pure, powerful and very sensual. So many times while having conversations, or photographing something I would physically feel a rush that made the hair on my arms stand up.

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Waiting

The thing about camping at Pennsic War for me is that it gave me a chance to really relax and just be me. I occurred to me at one point that I probably bother a few people. I don't play out a fictional "persona." I'm just the same me in all the settings. When I would talk to people it wasn't to the character they were trying to portray, but to the person. My photography was the same approach. I didn't run around, trying to find the best thing to photograph. I didn't look at Pennsic with an eye as to what it was trying to portray. Instead I shot it the way I saw it, when I saw it, and most importantly, when I felt like shooting. I tried to set up a number of special sessions, and then waited to see which of the many ideas would come back to me. A lot of my time was spent just sitting around camp, waiting for those moments to come. Honestly, being down by the lake wasn't so bad.

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