Orphan Images--June Email

Welcome to this month's Adventures in Photography! For this episode, I have been beckoned by old, orphaned images that have existed in obscurity for years. The art of photography is broad--from real estate, architecture, portraits, sports, landscape, stock, etc. Sometimes I find that, as I concentrate on portraiture, I neglect the quieter side of the art: shooting things and places. If you've practiced photographing things and places, you may already know how therapeutic it can be. Exhibit A: The Green Roof. There is an old southern practice of painting a ceiling blue. Do you know why? It's because the ghosts (who aren't very smart) think that the roof is the sky and, since they pass through physical matter without restraint, fly straight through the roof and will therefore leave the inhabitants alone. None of that applies to this image, save that colored ceilings are pretty cool. This space deserved more time and attention than I was able to offer, but of the images that I collected, this one with the pigeons in motion was the most interesting to me. It makes a dashing desktop image. Exhibit B: The Floating Chairs. After a series of January rains in 2002, the water in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, refused to recede. I decided to stop being lazy and took a drive around town and was rewarded for my efforts by these 'floating chairs'. The water in Murfreesboro has a hard time soaking into the ground because the earth below is mostly limestone covered with a few feet of dirt. I once had a buddy who moved there from California and was terrified of tornadoes. He purchased an underground shelter and thought he would be able to bury it by renting a backhoe. He quickly learned that he would also need to hire a professional to dynamite an enormous chasm the size of a mobile home in his backyard in order to install the shelter. Exhibit C: The Bottom of the Lake. I saw the movie Deliverance at an obscenely young age and it left me terrified of mountain rivers. I saw it again at age 20, and despite all of my teenage desensitization, it still gave my soul a chill. This image was created in east Tennessee on the bottom of Patrick Henry Lake. The Tennessee Valley Authority had let the water out of lake to perform maintenance on the dams, and behold, the world beneath looked akin to the aftermath of nuclear devastation. Exhibit D: The Copa Microphone. This is a portrait of my Shure Beta SM 58 microphone. It has endured my slobbery singing for nearly a decade. It is the subject of my latest record's album cover, 'The Copa Club'. You can hear it in action on the live recordings available here. For this image, I punched holes in background paper with a screwdriver, and then focused on the microphone with a wide aperture, making the light that shone through the holes look like night club lights. The smoke was created using a stick of incense and a sauce pan (to keep the smoke accumulating near the microphone). Thank you for reading this far! May your July be delightful and blessed. Rory Need something else to do? Become a fan of my gospel cigar rock here. Enjoy my blog here. Rory White Photography 1609 Linden Avenue B Nashville, Tn 37212 615.631.0106 | chilidogcowboy@yahoo.com

Television Time

Its been a very, very busy May. Unfortunately I haven't had much to share creatively for the blog, but have been able to create some interesting photos and land some TV limelight time.

Here is a cool picture from this week's Gospel Dream shoot including the awesome camera man:

and here is an interesting one that I will leave up to the viewer to interpret:



This job was for the television show Gospel Dream. Gospel Dream 2008 will run for five consecutive Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on the Gospel Music Channel, starting June 28. If you've got the curiosity and time, you will be able to view our photo shoot and my jubilant exclamations during those times.

How did I get to be the photographer for television shows? I have sought acting jobs for years through a local talent agency, AMAX, and last fall landed a gig as a militant photographer in this video from last fall:



It has been a delight to get to be boisterous and to get to use my expensive toys, too. A special thanks goes out to my two friends and fellow TV stars: Brady and Joe.



Visit Brady at globalsupportmission.com and support his efforts in Africa.

Visit Joe at burlingamephoto.com

Missing Persons

Art has lost its artists. They are an army of missing persons.

They are away tending to the banalities of email, facebook, and television.

This morning I could have written a great song, or waded through writing one of the hundreds of poor songs that make up the intervals between great songs.

I could have rendered an idea. Instead, I allowed it to slip from me.

50 letters in my inbox everyday beckon me away from doing what I always dreamed I'd do: write great songs, record great songs, and live and breathe DIY music.

How many great songs, plays, papers, and ideas, go unrendered because of our social priorities? Let Howard Beale have your ear for a moment (caution: the following clip contains necessary profanity):

April Adventures in Photography

Welcome to Rory's Adventures in Photography! This spring has been a delightfully busy one with a diverse list of victims: photographers, models, musicians, lovebirds, and baby-filled people, oh my! From left to right, top to bottom: Samuel Delgado, Joseph Adkins, Roxanne Underwood, Samuel Delgado, Joseph Adkins, and Cyndi Williams. It is difficult to select a shoot to highlight for the newsletter-so I will simply choose the most recent adventure with my new friend Nathan Tingle-a Nashville musician who surprised me by arriving to our shoot wearing a 77's t-shirt. The 77's are an old, underground alternative/blues/pop band that has been putting out albums in the Christian music industry for almost 30 years. I feel a special kinship whenever I run into a fellow fan. 1980's alternative Christian rock is a sub-genre of a sub-genre from a day when it was us against them: they were many, and we were few-so we old-school fans have to stick together! This only makes sense when you understand that in some churches all rock was banned and Christian rock was simply uncool elsewhere because lumpy groins in spandex, "lick my love pump" lyrics, and men in excessive makeup were en vogue. Even though Stryper breached the polar extremes of tight pants, guitars, and the cross, there were other musical offerings available, too! So here's a link to the 77's website: http://www.77s.com/ Christian alternative underground music history aside, our goal for this shoot was to create some safe images that could be used for Nathan's promotion and for use on a future album layout. I wanted us to imagine trying to "break the 3rd wall". Obviously, photographs are 2-dimensional and are doomed to remain within their rectangles. With a little play, however, we might increasingly energize the viewer by advancing the pose: freezing motion, having the talent reach towards the camera, implying an association between the viewer and the talent, placing the camera in abnormal positions, and so on... Above are some of the safer images according to our risk assessment modulation unit. The zig zag trail of light in the background was provided by Dylan Reyes, my first-class assistant who drew light paths with a flashlight from behind a hanging wax paper. If you would like a great photo assistant, click on his name and put him to work! Here are the riskier images according to our risk assessment modulation unit. As you can see, we are trying very, very, hard to make you, the viewer, entertained :) It simply makes me absolutely thrilled to get to play with all these toys: lights, camera, and energetic, wonder-filled talent! Thank you for reading this month's briefing. Don't forget to visit to my blog here for a more current and randomized slice of what's going on with my photography, Copa's Gospel Cigar Rock, philosophical expeditions, etc. By the way, I released 3 albums and 1 compilation by my rock band Copa last year on iTunes and haven't told anybody about it. If you would like to check it out, click here. Grab a few tunes for yourself and go underground with the gospel cigar! Be seeing you! Rory Rory White Photography 1609 Linden Avenue B Nashville, Tn 37212 615.631.0106 | chilidogcowboy@yahoo.com

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