Meet a Subject: Eric B Ricks

Hey there - I would like to introduce fellow readers to a number of my favorite and notable portrait subjects from over the past year. Everyone featured in this series has been either chosen because of their interesting story or background, impact on me or my photographic endeavors, or any imaginable combination of the above. This will basically be a collective shout out to a number of people that bestow upon me the honor of taking their picture, and most of them have done so on a number of occasions.

Eric B Ricks, Collaborator in Creative Mayhem

First up is DC artist Eric B Ricks; muralist, painter, mixed media sculptor and general collaborator in creative mayhem. I first met Eric under some chance circumstances back in August of 2014. Eric had been working as an apprentice under local photography legend George de Vincent, who had recently passed away after a life of seemingly endless adventure, and Eric was in the process of moving out of de Vincent's house and studio located a couple blocks away from my apartment.

On Film, Part 1 of who knows how many; Film Stocks

Alright folks, here's part 1 of who knows how many blogposts about shooting film. These are basically a collective brain dump that have accumulated in my head over the course of the past few years of working with the medium. The vast majority of these posts are adopted from some info I recently put together for a brand new Facebook group geared specifically towards Washington, DC Film Shooters, but some of the info is pretty generic and should apply to film shooters located throughout the world. 

The thoughts, words & opinions that make up this series are of my own and should not at all be considered gospel. They are simply my general thoughts on a number of aspects of the film photography work flow, and should be looked at as a guide for avid film photographers as well as digital photographers that are looking into trying film for the first time. (It doesn't hurt, trust me!) 

The first installment of what might become many will be some general thoughts about the primary film stocks offered by what I will call The Big Three film manufacturers today; Kodak, Ilford & FujiFilm, plus some additional info about Lomography and Instant Films.