December 19th, 2009 by rick copper
Is not a good photographer, she’s a great one. Right now she specializes in portraiture, but she has the talent to do anything she wants behind the lens. She continually impresses me with her work.

photo by Wen McNally. all rights reserved.
Call this is promo piece, call it what you like, but it is only an honest appraisal of someone I find extremely talented. If you need her to do some work, you can find her right here.
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November 27th, 2009 by rick copper
Yellow lines crawled away. Gaining momentum, stripes crisply zipped until running together, turning to a ribbon splitting asphalt in half.
If one had superhuman abilities, such as freeze framing within optical organs, you could hold onto District 147, a faded muted black stencil halfway up golden canary yellow sheet metal. Once the part-time driver got the beast over 45, freeze frame became mere memory bored into reality.
Bored out of their gourds, idle chatter rapidly succumbed to nodding. Field trips, no matter how intoxicating intellectual stimulus created, always drained. Kindergartners could fall asleep in line waiting to get back on the bus. Budding teenagers would brave it out, holding up until they turned onto the highway. High school juniors were beyond putting up a front, getting comfortable before the bus pulled out of the sand-covered, eroded asphalt lot.

photo by Daniel Agee. All rights reserved.
Three teachers, all science, one cut from the crust of geology. Aside from teachers, two other adults were present, mothers posing as teachers on the ride-along as chaperones in case the field trip turned to a dance. 57 hormonally-challenged, synapse-snoozing teenagers trying to keep collective hearts aflutter despite continual monotone detailed explanations of tectonic plates within the Eastern United States, their massive collisions, upheavals, forming Adirondacks, Appalachians and the eastern coastline. One part-time bus driver, a senior and former truck driver who once took a snooze on a 17-hour haul across I-10, dumping a load of avocados and peppers two miles outside Mobile. No harm done except for a few cars slipping on a delightful guacamole spread across four eastbound lanes.
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November 4th, 2009 by rick copper
Daniel is a very talented photographer who mixes styles with a certain amount of panache. He understands how to “Frank” his photos when necessary and how to make any object visually appealing through photojournalistic viewpoints. 
On occasion, I will put one of his photo into my blog. Some will have stories wrapped around them, others will be purely photos, such as this one. Enjoy, however I must warn you this is his photo and he reserves all rights. If it is used for something he didn’t approve, he will hunt you down and do harm to your person.
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Posted by rick copper Tags: daniel agee, photo styles, photographer's workshop, photography, photojournalism, robert frank, writing
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