Newark Club

I don't think I'm alone in this, but I try to challenge myself as a photographer on a daily basis. Before I worked for the Governor it was a little easier because I would have different assignments on different subjects at different locations and I could come up with different images. Now I basically photograph a bald guy with a beard every day. Every day. So now it's more important than ever for me to challenge my photographers eye just so I don't get burned out.

I was at the end of a long day yesterday and I couldn't find anything that I really wanted to capture. I was at the Newark Club in Newark (duh) and figured that I wouldn't get any art for the day - until I went into the coat room. On the shelf over the coat rack were all these cool, decorative lamps - just sitting there disheveled and uneven. So here I am, in a coat room, leaning on all sorts of fur and leather coats costing more than I make in a month, climbing on boxes and bins, photographing these lamps. It took about a dozen shots before I got what I want - but I gotz something (if you click on the image it will make it bigger which looks cool). Then I looked down and found a huge bin with gaudy, gold napkin rings - yeehaa! - two images in one coat room. Who would have thought?