Selfie Time

(c) Mark Hertzberg 2018

This light-hearted post was prompted by a comment about “Selfies” made in response to a post by fellow Wright photographer Andrew Pielage to “The Wright Attitude” Facebook group. I shot my first Wright selfie at the Willey House in January, 2006, 18 months before the introduction of the iPhone and the concurrent obsession on selfies. It is literal and admittedly boring. I started having more fun with the idea after this photo. Technical notes are at the end of the post. And, yes, my hair has gotten grayer since that first photo at the Willey House!

I shoot them only when the opportunity presents itself, rather than compulsively at each Wright site I photograph. Enjoy the gallery:

With Cindy, Ennis House, March, 2008

Price Tower, April, 2011

Zimmerman House, June, 2012

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, July 2012

Wingspread, October 2012

Unitarian Meeting House, January, 2013

City National Bank, June, 2013

Penwern (Fred B. Jones Summer Cottage), July, 2013

Penwern, January, 2014

Florida Southern College, March, 2014

Taliesin West, October, 2104

Still Bend (Bernard Schwartz House), March 2015

Berger House, November 2016

Walker House, November, 2016

Cedar Rock, October 2016

Turkel House, July, 2018

Thomas P. Hardy House, September, 2018

Hillside Theater, October, 2018

Technical notes: Camera brands are irrelevant to me. I shoot with Nikons because I am invested into their lens system. And, from my newspaper days, I prefer to shoot with a black long lens than Canon’s more obtrusive white lenses. I shoot with two digital bodies, a cropped frame or DX body (currently a Nikon D500) with a 17-55mm f2.8 lens, and a full frame or FX body (currently a Nikon D850) with a 14mm f2.8 lens and a 70-210mm f2.8 lens. The long lens sometimes goes on the DX body. I occasionally use a 16mm f2.8 fisheye and an iPhone 6 for panoramic photos.

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