Brad Pitt and I share the exact same birthday (month, day, year) outside of that, our stories diverge considerably. Mr. Pitt went on to become an internationally famous superstar, while I have led the much more interesting life of the starving artist. I come from a long line of storytellers (whose gift for gab stretches back through the mists of time to our native Ireland) and professional malcontents who were seemingly born to create something in the arts, be it music, writing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I started writing at age 12 with a screenplay with my cousin Ryan about a planet where everyone looked like Elton John entitled "Don't I Know You?" More screenplays followed, several of which received epic Super-8 production with budgets that sometimes ran up to $10. A few even had sound!  More writing followed: songs, poems, short stories, numerous unfinished novels, etc.. Somewhere in there was an attempt at being a rock star...
Still living at home, at age 22, my father dropped an elderly Nikromatt 35-mm film camera into my lap, in the hopes that I would "make a go of it" as a photojournalist. That didn't happen, but I did develop an abiding love of photography that along with writing and archival work have been among the chief passions of my life. When it comes to my photography, I try to be as creative as possible while at the same time striving for a documentary/archival quality. The only set rules I adhere to, when it comes to making pictures are: 1.) Try not to make the picture blurry, and 2.) Don't drop the camera.
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Comments (16)
danapommet
I can still hear ir - "One Adam-12 - what is your 20". The rain and all the lights - I love it. Dana
KatesFriend
Oh, it's always the lights, the streaking red lights that captivated me. For those police dramas they often used the same daytime film stock to shoot the night scenes. The "cheery" would often appear with a blinking tail of fire as the cruisers rolled down the highway. I love this shot.
durleybeachbum
A great shot made exciting by your narrative!!
Chipka
I like this sort of moody shot! I never watched cop shows as a kid; I was always more interested in the hokey, but fashion-forward happenings on Moonbase Alpha (Remember Space: 1999?) as well as reruns of Star Trek and those really intriguing shows on PBS, back when they actually showed open heart surgery--in progress--on television, somewhere near prime after-dinner snack time. Yeah, I was a weird kid and I distinctly remember watching a condensed version of a bypass operation, while learning just how floppy a heart actually is and what it does and how often it does it--while flopping around. (It does quite a lot, mind you, and in the most extravagantly floppy manner possible; hearts and puppy ears have a lot in common in terms of flop factors.) So all of that is to say I love this shot, even though it doesn't conjure cop chases for me, just because I've seen so few of them. It does remind me of a more cinematically-elegant shot I'd see in a Quentin Tarantino film, probably as the bad-guy protagonists are "hangin' back a minute" and looking for the nearest Big Kahuna Burger joint--they make a mighty tasty cheeseburger, you know. And by the way, do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France...? Okay, see what you've done? A picture is a pretty good one if it makes me go around quoting Quentin Tarantino characters! Yeah. This is a good shot.
flavia49
fantastic capture!! love the colors, the reflections and your urban landscapes!!
Meisiekind
Love the flashback to Kojak... and the image - amazing movement in the wet! It is magical!
jmb007
bonne photo!!
Sea_Dog
Great story and image.
yons
The rain and light effect on the bonnet of the car is incredible. Good work.
sandra46
GORGEOUS IMAGE, GREAT SHOT, AND IT'S PEFECT FOR CHIRSTMAS, SINCE THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND THE LAMPS LOOK LIKE XMAS TREE BALLS AND LIGHTS!
anahata.c
terrific giddy capture, and your narratives fit it perfectly. It can be many things, we can all find a story in it, though your tv crime series is a riot, esp with the commercial interruptions. (I've waited for them to happen in real life, but they haven't. Not with the same production values, at least.) You always make such vital visuals out of the day-to-day, and the light here & energy are very catching. You just have a way...it's a jarring, giddy & really stunning bit of city-dom from the back of a car, and I assume that's ice at the bottom (it's a wild frame to the shot, whatever it is); and hard as I look, I don't see any christmas lights---just city lights---which is cool, because these shots capture a "christmas" feel all year long. I love it. I'd see this shot & say, "nope, I'll get nothin'": You see it, and it's a gem.
auntietk
I love the wet/ice/whatever-all on the windshield. It really makes this shot! It reminds me of the 60s, lying down in the back seat of the car, trying to sleep while we were on our way home from some far-away place. The street lights were hypnotic as they streaked across the car and down the back window, and every once in a while there would be a gas station, or we'd stop at a light, turn a corner ... the perspective was so wrong, it felt all backward. Thanks for that trip down memory lane to a rather odd place!
beachzz
Oh wow, this is great. I drove a 79 Olds Cutlass for a long time (kinda like driving a couch!!), so I know about big cars. That doesn't anything to do with this great shot, but it's what came to mind. As far as the cop shows and thrilling car chases go, oh yeah, I'm hearing it for sure!!
myrrhluz
The cop show I watched the most was Barney Miller. Great, but not quite the same tone. It had hashish-laced brownies, guys that thought they were werewolves and very bad coffee. I did watch "Hill Street Blues" for a while. "Hey, let's be careful out there" which had police cars streaming out into the night. I have lived mostly in warm climates so haven't done a lot of ice scraping, but I did have a Simca in the cold climes of England. It was bright red and generally falling apart around me. It's the only car where I had to scrape ice off the outside of the windows, then get inside and scrape it off the inside while my hands turned pretty shades of blue with strange spots of orange. Wonderful image, which does send images from some mostly forgotten cop action show of flashing lights and sirens screaming into the night. I love the frost on the bottom and the lights shining through it! I like that the lights are predominantly of the street. There are a few blues and greens of buildings, but it is mostly reds, golds and whites of car lights and street lights and wonderful reflections of the same. This gives it an impersonal and sordid look great for crime scenes in the making. All set up for the loud sound effects and blaring music. And more cowbells.
sawade
Hi Corey, a good pic of the rainy, dark night. Wonderful. Code 3. You speak about movies. Code 3 remembers me on Code red, the movie "A few good men" with Tom Cruise. The pic could be out Blade Runner too, smile. But now its enough with the movies, All the best, Bernd
kgb224
I just love it. Outstanding night photography.