Photo of the week

Smiles in the sunlight. 

Sometimes a little patch of sunlight brightens up your day, illuminates something you haven't seen before, shows you a new path, a new idea, gives you something to laugh about, smile about, rejoice in.  

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Photo of the week:

A tiny fragment of forgotten heritage.  This is a window from an abandoned synagogue.  It's fallen into disrepair over the years.  To think, 90+ years ago, a glass cutter, stone masons, plasterers, painters all carted these windows and bricks in by horse drawn carriage, painted and detailed everything by hand.  

I feel like, as a society, we've lost most of that connection to the buildings, the public spaces, the places we live, the decorations and details.  We've lost our artisans, our skilled tradesmen.  I don't know if the precision of our machines has washed us of our potential for talent and skill.  Either way, there's no doubt that the mastery of our ancestors is awesome in the true sense of the word.  

  Photo of the week...

This head shot was taken for the Barney's New York catalog for Claudio Riaz, one of the best makeup brush designers in the world, and one of the coolest people I've met.  I hope to have the honor of shooting his brushes soon, possibly for the same catalog.  

If you want to check out his work, here's a link:

http://claudioriaz.com/