This post is dedicated to [b]ecker and all of the other great photographers who always out play me in Texas Hold’em. The short list also includes: Jessica Claire, Mike Colon, Dane Sanders, and many more.
Paul Mobley had the cover image and a feature article in Rangefinder Magazine in July 2009. How do you like them apples?
You thought I was just a business guy, right? Amazing what you can do with the new Canon G10
You don’t believe me do you. You’re right I don’t have the cover image but my namesake in New York City does. We were talking about the accomplishment and I was trying to get something that I could use to brag about him. Yet, the only thing that he wanted to talk about was his subject. I think it’s great when you guys focus on the people in front of the camera instead of behind. In my opinion, that is often one thing that is common between all of you… but doesn’t get talked about much in the books, blogs, or seminars.
Paul Mobley from New York, NY told me, “The guy is a Texas farmer who just turned 100. He works everyday. One of the most delightful subjects on my American Farmer journey. His name is Catarino Romero, from Mineral Texas. He’s been married 80 years!”
Paul was nice enough to send over an extra image of Catarino and his wife. (A paulmobley dot com exclusive).
For all of the professional photographers and the amateurs like me it’s a good reminder that what is important is the people in our lives. Even if we only meet them for a few minutes they have a story to tell and it is the photographers responsibility, no mandate, to tell it with respect.
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Good stuff Paul! I really did think you shot this for a minute though, I was gonna say I need a shooter at my next wedding…. LOL!
Thanks Luke! You know you’re geographically most likely to run into Paul Mobley. It’s been a fun little game to hand a physical copy of American Farmer to someone and let them flip thru the pages and react before revealing the truth. I always clear it up but it’s my weird little way of introducing people to his amazing work. In a few days my Aunt Carol (wife’s Aunt) is going to be visiting us in California. She and her husband run a farm and I wonder what she’ll say. If it arrives in time, the signed copy that is coming from New York will go home with her.
Loved, really loved the pictures you took of my grandpa (Catarino Romero). Thanks so much!
Thanks for the beautiful pictures of our welitos. Welita recently went to be with the Lord. Feb.10th 2010.