Spotlight Seven Week 5: Ryan Brenizer, aka carpe icthus

Week #5 of Spotlight Seven feature Ryan Brenizer, aka carpe icthus, of New York City. In his interview, Ryan discusses how he started out on photography, his preferred equipment, and tells the story behind the photo shown below. Please swing on over to Spotlight Seven, check out the newest portraits, and ask carpe icthus about any of the photos being featured this week.



Interview

The Butcher

The Butcher, originally uploaded by 01101001 01100001 01101110.

I'll have to finish the series with baker & the candlestick maker at some point.

A young model - Zabid

A young model - Zabid, originally uploaded by mr_magic.

A scowl or a smile? You decide.

Try to say no

Try to say no, originally uploaded by jakerome.

That's my little friend Joey.

Nikon User, Mandalay, Myanmar

Nikon User, Mandalay, Myanmar, originally uploaded by photosadhu.

A nice sense of scale.

crossing roads

crossing roads, originally uploaded by Mverde3.

The first of 365

Oliver added 300 great pictures over the last few days, may taken for the project described below. Keep it up Oliver, and best of luck completing your project. Looks like you're well on your way.

Starting on my 32nd birthday (10~05~2007) I am going to try to take at least one posed portrait per day (as well as other photography) and post it to this set on Flickr. The posting may not always happen day by day, but the EXIF data on the pictures will bear out that each one will have been taken on a different day... I will be posting one version in this set, but there is another set, called 365 Portraits - All Versions that has all of the versions of each picture.

Josh Nelson

Josh Nelson, originally uploaded by Steve.Korn.

Josh Nelson is a rising star in the jazz world. He is a pianist based out of L.A. He works as musical director for vocalist, Sara Gazarek. He was in town for a few days two weeks ago, we played a few gigs and did a photo shoot. Here's his site:

http://www.joshnelsonmusic.com/

An Indian Tree

An Indian Tree, originally uploaded by designldg.

A very interesting treatment, and nice portrait. Click through to read more of the story behind the photo.

Camera in hand

Manchester Flickr Group 14, originally uploaded by joseph_mcgarraghy.

Apparently, this was from a Flickr meet-up of some sort. Great how Flickr can bring people together all over the world.

Love Comes Crawling

Love Comes Crawling, originally uploaded by Fetusboy (post-utero).

One of nearly 1000 new pictures added in the last 3 days.

Papu boy in Mount Hagen

Papu boy in Mount Hagen, originally uploaded by Eric Lafforgue.

One of the favorite photos I've seen today. You can even buy a book with this portrait & others: Papous: Plus de Photos dans mon livre "Papous". Check out the Flickr page for more details & links.

Spotlight Seven Week #4: Duff Suds

Check out the interview.

This is the part of the story behind the above photo. You really need to read the whole story.

"I had quickly learned that the most interesting faces belonged to those people who had it hard. The people of the street. As a result I knew that I could always find an interesting face or story near the city shelters, bus stations and tourist traps. Albuquerque wasn’t any different. I spent part of the day at the city center watching the hot air balloons float past, then trekked over to the Greyhound terminal but both proved to be disappointing. Finally, I stopped a local police officer and asked him flat out “where are all of your homeless.” A little surprised at the question he curtly told me how the city had rounded up and herded all of the street people to the shelters for the day, standard procedure when the balloons were flying. I guess they wanted their streets clean when the out-of-towners arrived. He pointed me in the direction of the nearest shelter and off I went."

B&W vicki

B&W vicki, originally uploaded by ~HannahBanana~.

A nice, classic look.

Photos being invited by all sorts of Flickrites!

35, originally uploaded by avraham bank.

I dig this photo. As I was browsing through the photo pool today, it jumped out at me. As I went to blog it, I noticed that another member of 6 Million People had invited it to the group. Awesome! We've seen an explosion in membership the last 2 weeks, and that's obviously one of the big reasons- Flickr members inviting other Flickr members to join the group and reach the goal. We'll get there, one portrait, one person at a time.

Driving by

calanan is a friend of mine and also a terrific photographer. He has a whole series of what he calls "Drive-by Shootings". He has lots of excellent, and if you ever need a photographer in the Salt Lake City area, calanan is the guy to call.

Mauritania

Mauritania, originally uploaded by John Spooner.

Another great portrait from around the world.

delly pranata on bass

{delly pranata on bass}, originally uploaded by ~just julie~.

Very cool. A good example of Photoshop in action.

yo al cuadrado

yo al cuadrado, originally uploaded by setasatan.

Contributors from all over the world.

MK Half Marathon Runner 836 #17 0f 100

MK Half Marathon Runner 836 #17 0f 100, originally uploaded by Mr. 'Chard.

A nice picture of a half-marathon finisher.