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Oakland, CA Sunday Morning

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:31:00 -0400

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Suburbia exhibit over at Meter Gallery

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:41:00 -0400

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Morro Bay 1

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:45:00 -0400

Me: What do you think?Wife: I like it a lot and its weird. But it's not really a bridge picture is it?Me: No...
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Salinas

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:13:00 -0400

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Gonzalez, CA

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:04:00 -0400

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The Blogosphere Tends to Eat Itself

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:24:00 -0400

Driving back from Morro Bay this weekend I got a call from my friend Tim Archibald.Archibald:"Dude you got to get back here. Your wife has gone off on APE. The blogs are on fire!"Me: "That doesn't surprise me but I don't have time for all that drama.
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Getting out of the car

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:47:00 -0400

I just came back from a short photo trip to Salinas and Morro Bay. I bought a new giant 8x10 camera that weighs a ton and takes forever to set up. It wasn't getting up each morning at 530 for good light that was difficult. It was pulling the car ove
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Review Santa Fe

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:28:00 -0400

I'm in!!!(Not really but making progress. I was 8 on waiting list and am now down to #4. )I take solace in the fact that Alec Soth did not get in the first time he applied and that Albert Watson's wife supported him for 10 years. I only borrowed mon
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Car Shot

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:51:00 -0400

Shot this car for a magazine. Up at dawn to for good light and we end up in the soup.
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Eagle III

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:58:00 -0400

I went back a third time this weekend unable to let go of the idea that there is a picture here. 8x10 this time.
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Content

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:33:00 -0400

I was excited when I first saw these toll booths on my way to Vallejo. How cool would it be to photograph a location like this totally devoid of people?Apparently not that cool. I was disappointed when I saw the film. When I was there I imagined it
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Bird Deux

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:50:00 -0400

I went back and reshot this bird. The first time I shot it-it looked good in black and white but kind of fell apart in color. Still not sure if I have it.
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The Holy Trinity of Photo Careers: Editorial, Advertising and Art ....and a story

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:01:00 -0400

Is it possible? Is it like the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot, an urban myth? I want my cake and eat it too AND I want one of those free chocolates you get after desert at fancy restaurants. We shot this guy for magazine in an alley in San Francisco.
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LA

Tue, 4 Mar 2008 00:07:00 -0500

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I want my cake and ....

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:32:00 -0500

There has been a lot of interesting discussion on this blog about trying to reconcile the commercial world and art world. I thought it would be good to address it here. (Oh and I love the feedback but would rather you sign your name unless you are sa
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Reconciliation Part 2

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:30:00 -0500

One way to reconcile two different styles of work is to shoot pictures that act as bridge. In this case I am trying to show a commercialized version of the landscape or a landscape version of the old commercial work.
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Reconciliation Part 1

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:30:00 -0500

So how do you reconcile two apparently different styles of shooting?When you are known as the post-production-people-in-the-landscape guy how do you get people to think of you as something else?How do you build a bridge between the two kinds work?
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Reconciliation Part 3

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:29:00 -0500

In addition I have created two Blub books and had a slip case made to hold them both. One book shows commercial work and one shows the CTWWWTB.
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Reconciliation Part 4

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:28:00 -0500

And then sometimes you make photographs and you are not sure what to make of them.The truth is I am not sure how to make sense of all of this and it feels alot like trying to turn an ocean liner around in a bathtub.
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Either this says: Genius! Genius !Genius ! or....

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:59:00 -0500

...Hack, hack, hack http://photohistory.tistory.com/2458
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Conscientious

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:53:00 -0500

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/2008/02/thomas_broening.html
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Closer to Broke

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:04:00 -0500

http://closertowherewewanttobe.com/
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CRing on the Sonoma Coast for JWT

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:47:00 -0500

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Hercules, CA

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:24:00 -0500

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Makes You feel old

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:11:00 -0500

I came across this image I shot years ago of Bob Knight on the NYTimes website today. I think I was 19 when I took it and remember being excited the AP picked up the shot.I was never much of a sports shooter. I would come back from a football game w
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New Feature: Interview With Art Buyer Jen Small

Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:01:00 -0500

This is the first in a series of interviews with people at agencies. I hope to do more of these. Art Buyer Jennifer Small is first.THE BIG AND THE SMALL OF ITTB:I am a little nervous I don't know why.JS: You are asking me the questions not the othe
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It's alive!

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:33:00 -0500

www.thomasbroening.com
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Oh dear

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:20:00 -0500

From an anonymous Art Buyer on Bitter Photographer via Jackanory:"I wish I too could be honest at my job. When I review a car photographer's portfolio I wish I could say: "wow thanks for showing me this amazing car book that looks like every other ph
Source: Thomas Broening

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Website

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:24:00 -0500

New website is close to completion. You can see it here:http://m-i-lab.com/thomasBroening/build7/
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IN NY

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:31:00 -0500

I am meeting with potential agents this week and it is going well. The response to the work has been really positive and I am anxious to see where it will lead. I got to meet with fellow bloggers Robert Wright and Andrew Hetherington and I think aft
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Looking for a new Pad

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:42:00 -0500

Back in the day Doug Adesko, Timothy Archibald and I all had reps. Doug had been with his for a while but Archibald and I had just signed with new reps. Tim's reps were a couple of women who started an agency called Tidepool.Doug (on the phone to Ti
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I am in the process of

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:20:00 -0500

putting together an application for Review Santa Fe. I have never liked having to explain an image and felt that any image that needed explanation was a failure. The closest I have come to putting words to my pictures comes from the T is silent:"love
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Book

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:32:00 -0500

I have been making a bunch of books through Blurb and have been pretty impressed by them.
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Is there room in commercial photography for photography?

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:17:00 -0500

I have noticed something interesting during my discussions with potential reps. There seems to be a east coast vs west coast difference in terms of what the best kind of photography is to show.The WC reps prefer to show work that looks very much lik
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Last One

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:53:00 -0500

My productivity definitely fell off as the week went along. Because there is such a small window when I like to shoot in the day it is really important for me to have a plan. I saw this water tower from the freeway and made a point of coming back at
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Entry Point

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:25:00 -0500

From Tim Archibald: Entry Point-An image that works in both the commercial and art world.
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El Paso Day 2

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:13:00 -0500

I got up early and checked out the area around the hotel. I scouted it the night before.
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Call Sheets: How not to do it

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:36:00 -0500

I am in the process of booking a hotel in New York for an upcoming trip to meet with reps. I used to stay just stay in the cheapest hotel I could find but as I get older my personal comfort is becoming all important.We shot a job in LA last year. The
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El Paso Day 1

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:37:00 -0500

My plane landed at 430 and the sun set at 530 and managed to grab this on the way to the hotel. I shot this plant a bunch of ways but liked this approach the best.
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El Paso

Mon, 7 Jan 2008 03:40:00 -0500

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Photo Safari

Thu, 3 Jan 2008 23:33:00 -0500

When I worked as an intern at a newspaper in Florida when I had a day off I would jump in the car and just drive and take pictures of things that interested me along the way.All my children and my wife has been sick for the last three weeks and I am
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How did I get here?

Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:51:27 -0500

I always find it interesting how people get to my website or blog. Some come directly here and some arrive via another website. But often people get here search engine searches. Here are some of the more interesting ways people found my website an
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