The future face of Street Photography is Farzad Kohan. Farzad is a mixed media artist who specializes in abstract art. He paints, sculpts and is a brown belt in a lethal version of Shotokan Karate. Don’t let the Canon camera he’s holding fool you. He’s dangerous. The only thing more dangerous are his photos. I’ll be sure to post when his new art webstie is live. In the mean time check out www.farzadkohanart.com to see his lost painting’s project.

Final Shot in the Dad Beats Series. The whole band and nothing but the band, its the Dad Beats! As a photographer it was a fun night of photography. All of these Dad Beat photos were shot with my Nikon D300. You can see the EXIF data below but what I really enjoyed was shooting completely with available light. No flash was used in the creation of this series.

Another street shot from the Eagle Rock photo walk. I got interested in what it means when you photograph a photograph.  This billboard of Beyonce, although commercial is some elses art, so what does it mean when I photograph it? I like my photo but I don’t fool myself into thinking that its something that its not. However since I’m not trying to make a reproduction (which would make me a technician) but instead I’m making my own art.  I’m sure that this is covered in Theory of Photography 101 at every Jr. College in America but since I’m self taught it gives me pause for thought. If you’ve read this much you are are much to kind. The outward thinking about this will now stop.

A new favorite picture. I took this a quick snapshot when I saw these amazing women walking down the sidewalk. Its wonderful to catch the moment with Grandma, Mom and daughter on a rainy afternoon.

Shot in Eagle Rock. Combination of available light from the building’s signs and my off the shoe flash.

Again from Eagle Rock, in Los Angeles, California. I look at this place and I think about the old Los Angeles, the kind that we think about when we watch old movies, sock hops and drive ins. I like this photo because of the color, the composition of the old lights and  the picture of Beyonce on the bilboard in the background. It just feels like L.A. to me.

Another image that I have mixed feelings about. If I could afford to print it large, very large I think this would be incredible. With being presented smaller I don’t think it has the pop that it does in a larger format. Is this way of thinking legit? Is it a cop out? Should a good image “sell” no matter what or is it legitimate to say its only good at a certain size? I’m just not sure.

I post it because I like it. If you don’t like it then good. Its not for sale. If you do like then that is okay as well.  I like it. I post it.