“Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one”
-John Lennon, “Imagine”
Last Saturday marked what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday and here in NYC the occasion was marked by several events over the city, including a a screening of LennonNYC at Strawberry Fields and a gallery display of Lennon’s artwork in SoHo, provided by Yoko Ono. I was unable to attend any of the festivities on Saturday (more on what I was doing later in the post) but I was able to make my way up to Strawberry Fields on Sunday. It was a beautiful early fall afternoon and there was still a large crowd around the “Imagine” memorial; some leaving flowers, others simply enjoying the live music (all Beatles’s tunes of course!) .
Happy Birthday John.
I got to spend last Saturday in the studio, working with Steven Walsh on one of his projects: shooting the base images for a large photo-composite to advertise the club he is starting at FIT. He recruited me as the photographer since, while this was his concept and project, he was also the model and there’s only so much one person can do 
I was more than happy to help and it gave me a great excuse to get into the studio and play around with lights. We’ve been covering a lot of lighting concepts and theories in my Lighting Principles class but the shots we been taking have been strictly to demonstrate how light acts in different conditions and to accurately show this, we’ve been instructed to shoot our models in a standardized way. While I understand the purpose behind this, it doesn’t do alot to satisfy that creative itch and this was a great opportunity to apply some of the things I’ve learned to a creative shoot (and hey, they actually worked, how ’bout that?). We shot a fair amount but here’s one of my favorites from the day:
Well that’s it for this post; more to come later,
Cheers!