Archive for June, 2009
holistic health and fitness coach jeremy shore
Posted by mareadyphotography in fitness/sports on June 22, 2009
jeremy shore is a machine. maybe a robot, even. but if he’s a robot, i bet instead of metal and circuitry, he’s made of non-GMO trees and organic barley that as a whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. dude is totally natural and holistic about everything he does – and he’s good at what he does. to show for it he’s been in about a million fitness mags and has been featured on many tv shows, most recently rachael ray. jeremy will soon be starring in his own tv show on the halogen network called REAL STRENGTH, showcasing people paying their health forward by creating strong communities and doing good things for the world. go jeremy, go!
check out his site HERE
my hood #2
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on June 16, 2009
more shots of my hood
straight chillin on the stoop
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- this girl was crying until i came up with my camera
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- this is the famous iron cross left at the world trade center
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- they were just chillin on the mailbox. they saw my camera and jumped down to pose and i was like, no no no! hop back up!
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- concrete baseball
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- girls just being girly
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- heated game of pokemon or yu-gi-oh or somethin
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- cards and coconut water
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- playing soccer in the middle of people next to the sidewalk sale. there’s something awesome about this scene.
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- girls hang out as the adults play quarters
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- this guy is super nice
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- on holidays, there are grills as far as the eye can see
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- they filmed something for telemundo on our corner for a few days
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- straight chillin on the stoop
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- this got painted over. kinda sad.
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- painting toe nails on the sidewalk
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- this trannie was with the telemundo crew. the kids had no idea what to think.
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- this guy saw me taking a photo of this lady and started hamming it up.
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- it was hot that day
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- sidewalk preaching happens a lot in the summer.
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- i friggin LOVE this.
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- the moms make the kids sit there and listen.
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- there were about 30 people playing basketball on the street to the left of these guys that i wanted to shoot, but one guy got nervous and started saying i was a cop so everybody got sketched. these dudes were cool, though. i actually have 5×7 prints of this picture in my bag ready to give to them when i see em next.
my hood
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on June 15, 2009
over the last couple of years i’ve been collecting cool pictures of inwood. there’s so much life here and so much… idunno, man.. you just have to be here to feel what i’m talking about. it’s loud, it’s social, it’s dirty and it’s beautiful. kids play in the streets till the wee hours of the mornin while the adults play dominos or chill around the stoop or on lawn chairs or couches they drag into the street. instead of sitting in front of a tv all night like an idiot, the people in my hood hang out and actually communicate with each other. it’s hard for me to take pictures around here because people usually think i’m a cop or for some reason they don’t want their faces in front of a camera. but people are usually cool with me shooting their kids, so i start with the kids and sometimes they’ll warm up to me. many more to come…
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- this is probably one of my favorite shots. i love everything about it.
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- i was in the elevator with this girl and her mom and she saw my camera and started posing, so after we got out i started snapping shots.
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- bingo!
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- some kid throwing a ball at the “foreing and domestic auto parts” store
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- nightcap at noon
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- shaved ice, dominoes and fanta
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- these kids were fun to shoot
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- repuzent
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- this is friggin beautiful. two old ladies, matching old lady hair cuts, pocket books, pediatric shoes, polyester pants, canes, flower print blouses… and they hold hands and walk with itty bitty shuffle steps. totally adorable.
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- she was hilarious. she was laughing because i was throwing a balled up piece of tin foil up in the air and making it land near her feet.
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- cute as a button
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- chillin at the corner store
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- long day
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- this is another favorite
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- she was kinda shy at first
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- i love all these colors
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- i can’t even take it how cute these kids are
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- walked up on a friendly wrestling match at the park. the guy on the bottom just wouldn’t give up.
jesusita fire in santa barbara
Posted by mareadyphotography in documentary on June 13, 2009
i was staying at the fess parker’s doubletree in santa barbara when the jesusita fires started burning – these shots are from my hotel room balcony on the second floor. one night we were eating outside and the wind changed and started blowing in ashes. i said that it was weird to think that i might be inhaling some kids teddy bear – that’s pretty messed up, but that’s some hard reality right there. all the vacant rooms at the hotel were slammed full with evacuees – some were sleeping in their cars that were packed full with whatever they could cram in before they had to evacuate. in total around 80 homes were destroyed and another 20 or so were damaged. i had a house burn down one time and that crap is no good. but the free cookies they give you at the doubletree are fan-frickin-tastic.
