Internet, this is my son. Son, the Internet.

Baby Hocter at 12 Weeks

Baby Hocter at 12 Weeks

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and fathers-to-be out there!

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Mission Statue #33 | View on Flickr

A small angel statue at the San Fernando Mission in San Fernando, CA.

Processed in Lightroom using an excellent Ilford SFX emulation preset from Life In Digital Film.

Either Way… | View on Flickr

Mission Soledad #38 B/W | View on Flickr

Liz Ashley #269 B/W | View on Flickr

Tiana #194 B/W | View on Flickr

My Nikon F, manufactured in 1961 and still going strong.

I’m happy to announce that as of today all photos on my Flickr account, including the nudes like the one above, are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.  Go read the license details if you’re interested, but essentially what this means is that my photos are free for noncommercial use as long as you attribute the work to me.  It does not in any way change my copyright, but it does make them available for you to share or adapt and still gives me the proper credit.

I have considered this for a long time and experimented by making a few photos available some months ago.  Today I decided that it is the right thing for me and my photos.

This is my Christmas gift to you.  Please enjoy it.

Merry Christmas from the Hocters | View on Flickr

Us on a street in Cambria, CA

Joel After Breakfast | View on Flickr

Joel scopes me out after breakfast.
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I Voted | View on Flickr

I attached my ballot stub to the sample ballot with the “I Voted” sticker. I’m keeping this one!

Tiana #183 Toned | View on Flickr

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California Ground Squirrel | View on Flickr

Corvette Emblem | View on Flickr

Dreary Day at Huntington Botanical Gardens
April 15, 2007
Canon EOS 5D / Canon EF 17-40/4.0

Organic Strawberries
Near Davenport, CA
Canon PowerShot G9

Tiana #286
Los Angeles / February 23, 2008
Canon EOS 5D / Canon EF 28-70/2.8

I love her hair color and skin tone in this color version…

But I also really love the tones in this b&w version…

What do you think?

I know it’s probably no big deal, but it’s always nice to be published.

I love how Flickr Favorites show up in FriendFeed. What a great way to discover new photography. Head on over there and subscribe to my FriendFeed.

Tiana #159 B/W
Feb. 23, 2008

Tiana #22 B/W
February 23, 2008

Tiana #194 B/W
February 23, 2008

Small Flowers Along the Path / Getty Villa / April 27, 2008

Floating / Getty Villa / April 27, 2008

This is my wife, Heather, and my nephew, Joel. Taken today, March 28, 2008, at Battery Spencer, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. One of my favorite photos that I’ve taken in a long time.  It was a perfect day for taking photos.

Tiana #309
Canon EF 100mm/2.8 Macro

I shot with Tiana Hunter a couple weeks ago. I rented a studio in North Hollywood, which turned out to be nothing more than a space in one of those industrial parks. A big empty concrete space. It was one of those rare cold, rainy days in southern California, and the studio was freezing inside. The tiny space heater barely warmed Tiana if she strayed more than a couple feet from it. It was also her second shoot of the day, after having just arrived in town from New York that day. So she was cold and I’m sure a little tired, but she was a real trooper.

Since there was no natural lighting in the place, I used strobes for the whole shoot. After using mostly natural light on my last couple shoots, I didn’t enjoy using strobes as much as I used to. I found it difficult to find a groove with all the breaks for lighting setup and fiddling with lights in between shots.

Anyway, overall it was a great shoot. Tiana is a fun, wonderful model and a real sweetheart. I hope to shoot with her again in a daylight studio, maybe on her next trip to L.A.

Update: There are several photos from the shoot on my Flickr account. To view them, you’ll need to have a Flickr account and turn off “safe search.”

I had a great shoot with Tiana on Saturday, but I’ve barely had a moment to process the photos. Hope to write about the shoot before the end of the week. In the meantime, I posted a few photos from the shoot over on my Flickr account for you to enjoy until I get it together. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Arielle Lee (2c22)
Oct. 2002

I uploaded a ton of photos from my 2002 and 2003 shoots with Arielle to my Flickr stream today.  I will be uploading a lot of older photos over the coming weeks, in preparation for new gallery software that uses Flickr as its source.