dealing with vagaries

I would love to shake hands with whomever invented the line.  Point A to Point B – a restful tension, sharpstraightgeometry.

Underwater but on land.  Above Singapore but below the surface.

Just landed in Singapore for a few days to do a couple of talks for The National Geographic Channel. Made the jumps from LEX/DCA/IAD/LHR/SIN in one long, transcontinental streak, but at some point over the Smoky Mountains shot this image on the pocketable iPhone. I like the pixelation – in fact, it’s given me an idea for a new essay…

My buddy Holly Miller and I shot and edited these visuals to her song “Lazy Love” last week in pretty much one marathon session.

Music and on-camera appearance by Holly, visuals by Jeff (Canon 5D Mark II).

Check out this cool write-up in the Boston Globe A&E section on a group show my “Yichang, China” image is part of at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.

From Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mark Feeney:

“Jeff Hutchens’s “Yichang, China’’ shows some orange peels on a car seat. That doesn’t sound very promising — or Chinese. But the moody expressivity of citrus on gray surface is both elegant and arresting. Hutchens’s handsome use of color reminds us just why oranges are called oranges…Hutchens makes the banal seem exotic…”.

Kodak asked me a couple of weeks ago if I’d be willing to write a blog posting for them with some tips on photography. Click this link for some of my thoughts on how to set your photography apart and see how I’ve applied those philosophies of shooting images from China to the Arctic.

Farmland. Maryland.

The geometry of Gulu (Uganda).

iPhone photos.

In keeping with the aesthetic of my last post – I thought I’d toss up a portrait I shot last weekend.