Author: D. Scott Clark

Here is a picture that I took of a friend for a headshot she needed. I used two Canon Speedlites with no attachments. I placed her about five feet from the white wall by my stairs and put one Speedlight on a tripod on the stairs to light the back ground. The key light I put on another tripod slightly to my left and pointed it behind me and slightly up to bounce off the white wall and ceiling. Viola. Studio looking shot using only two Speedltes and bouncing light off of walls. Who needs a studio?

I wish that I was more driven to shoot on my own. I do not often enough come up with a concept then make efforts to achieve my idea. A while back I was taking a nap in my car when I woke up with these images in my head (mostly the first five). Sophie was a wonderful model.

I have driven past this building numerous times thinking that I should sometime take photos of it. Finally I stopped.

I did a fun shoot this past weekend for a business school. I had a good time working with the people and a new advertising firm. Here are a few examples.

The start to the IU Mini Marathon

The inside of JL Waters Outfitters

The exterior of Nick’s English Hut

Last week a friend and I took off in the car and went to West Baden Springs near French Lick, IN to see the “newly” renovated hotel there, an impressive structure built in 1902.

Quite impressive, but strangely decorated. There were a lot of different patterns and types of decorations that didn’t necessarily work well together.

Then we drove to St. Meinrad, IN to see the Abbey there.
Having seen the ridiculously ornate churches of Europe, despite being a Benedictine abbey, I appreciated the simplistic nature of this church.

It was a wonderfully beautiful day and concluded with a spectacular concert from Tommy Emmanuel www.tommyemmanuel.com

Last night I went to a small venue and saw three really great bands. So Many Dynamos from St. Louis, Cut off your Hands from Auckland, New Zealand and Ra Ra Riot from Syracuse, NY. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a really good show. I didn’t shoot as much as I normally would, but I was enjoying my company. These pictures don’t do the show justice. Check them out on Myspace. www.myspace.com/somanydynamos. www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands. www.myspace.com/rarariot.

So many Dynamos

Ra Ra Riot

I love fog. I love how it gives new simple life to cluttered and dirty scenes. I love how it separates and creates new perspectives. One morning last December this beautiful fog blanketed my city and I gladly took advantage.

I drove past here the other day and noticed how close a large building is to this field. It really blows me away how thick the fog can get.

PS Happy PI day!

My website has now been updated with Europe pictures.
www.scottclarkphotography.net

My grandpa, John Couey, turned 88 this month. That is longer than I can fathom living. Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

Grandpa looking at pictures of himself from WWII that I restored

While in Nashville my good friend Katie and I parked at the Titan’s stadium and walked to Broadway looking for an excuse to to take portraits of people on the street. The musicians became just the reason we needed. With Katie acting as my lightstand and umbrella by holding my Canon Speedlite 580ex II and shooting it through a translucent light disc, we took photos of musicians and drunks next to the Stage night club.

Blue

Members of the band On Tracy Lane

Wayne

Wayne

Blue kept calling this guy Patrick Swayze
Easy

Easy

“Patrick” and Blue rocking out to Jimmy Buffet

Drunk girl and “Patrick”

Steve from Leeds and Mary

Steve from Leeds and Ron

Steve from Leeds everyone.

Wayne eating free ribs.

The jovial troupe

I recently took a trip to Nashville, Tennessee to see some of my friends who moved there together and work in the Photography Industry there. Its always a good time to be around people with similar passions as you.

Saturday night I photographed some friends playing at the Blue Bird in a band called The Buzzkills. They are quite entertaining. I shot it all with my 50mm f/1.4 lens.

Last week I did a photoshoot for the restaurant Harry & Izzy’s that has a location in the Indianapolis airport terminal. Getting past airport security is a process. I had to have a personal escort the entire time. They would only allow me in and not the account managers. I was taking pictures of mostly the exterior using available light so it wasn’t to complex, but the complexity and diversity of the available light meant I had to spend time in post balancing things out.

I am putting together a show of my travel work from Uganda, Rwanda, Costa Rica, and India which will be displayed in the Wesleyan Church Headquarters in Indianapolis, IN. While making the placecards I had to look through my journals to find names and locations. While reading through my Journal from Uganda and Rwanda, I found this entry:

9/3/06 Kibungu, Rwanda, East Africa
“Today was a day just like any other day except for the manioc (banana mush) for breakfast. Today was a day just like any other except for falling asleep in a rickety bus on the way to a rural Anglican parish in south eastern Rwanda. The same sun I have know all my life greeted me over the most beautiful red-sand mountain with lush vegetation. It is strange knowing I am below the equator, I am on a new and different continent, but feeling I am the same person. It is strange because I could wake up tomorrow in Indiana, the next day in India and still I would feel the same. Maybe I expected too much. Maybe this is good; I am prepared to travel the world.”

I find it interesting that I wrote this two and half years ago, but still when I travel I feel the same way: a disappointment that I am not different while my environment is different. I don’t know if I just built up traveling in my mind so much that I have outlandish expectations for the transformational effects of travel. I can even remember feeling this way traveling with my family as a boy, somehow expecting the distance traveled to magically transform everything about my ability to sense my environment.

Thank you for checking out my blog. (web log). I will be updating with pictures from jobs I’m working on, travels, and just my thoughts. I’m also hoping to do some random arts to add as well.

Here is an image to start things off. It has been my screen saver for days. I love staring at it when my brain stops working. It is the interior of the dome at the Pantheon in Rome.