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Sloppy Joe’s is along the main drag, Duval Street, where everyone collects around sunset. It’s a cool place to hang out, I felt like I was in college again at a rowdy bar. Beginning at 1pm 10% of the crowd is drunk and that increases exponentially each hour till everyone is singing the worst rendition […]

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Within seconds of arriving in Key West the warm air fills the senses, within minutes, the bright sun warms our skin and within the first hour, it becomes clear that Key West is very different. Chickens appear out of nowhere and strut as if they own the place. According to the bartender at Sloppy Joe’s […]

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When shooting around the monument I met Peter Lerman and his friend Cindy. He’s a local Virgina musician that was putting together a video for his latest song “Abraham.” He picked the right place to do the video. At first they tried to scoot out of camera view and I asked them to “stay in […]

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Jerry Hayes of flickr asks: “Hey Ferrell, how many exposures and what spacing did you use… if you don’t mind me asking.” Hey Jerry, HDR was made for scenes like this. It’s high contrast; a single image was not even close to capturing the full dynamic range. The anti-HDR photographers would have never been able […]

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