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richard israel photography bio picture

welcome!

My name is Richard Israel and I am a photographer who lives in
Charlotte, NC with my beautiful wife Beth and our three amazing
daughters, Ferris twelve, Sophia nine and Priscilla five.

I love life, I love
photography.

Category Archives: personal

low fi

Testing the Olympus OM1 is over, this camera/lens blows me away, we are now inseparable buddies. I love this camera for it’s size, it’s tiny, when photographing kid’s it’s amazing how much better interaction you get when not using an intimidating camera and huge lens,
It’s totally low tech, fully mechanical, manual everything and lens quality...

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food

Ok, I’m definitely not a chef nor claim to be one, however our family love food and I love cooking, so I thought I’d share this  dish I cooked last night. which seemed to be a big hit, I also need you tell you that I’m in love with Grits and only stone ground grits...

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my baby + my new baby

I simply had to dig out the very first camera I ever owned, the venerable Olympus OM1 + 50mm, 1.4  lens after seeing UK photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s amazing reportage photography, he uses Olympus SLR’S for their tiny size and legendary optic’s.
I completely forgot how wonderful this camera system was and that lens……wow!!!
I shot a...

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ferris is no longer a little girl

Not too sure what happened but somewhere between 1997 and 2010 Ferris grew up.  For those who don’t know, Ferris is my eldest daughter, she turned 12 in December. Ferris is an amazing young lady, straight A’s, plays the piano beautifully, loves Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and thinks her daddy rocks!!!

tech note: Nikon F100, 85mm,...

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simple things

just a few of the simple things which are part of my daily life. things that I love, appreciate and that are so easily missed if I don’t take the time to stop, even if it’s for just a few minutes.

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priscilla gets her ears pierced

Our  baby Priscilla is six on March 25th and wanted to get her ears pierced as one of her birthday presents. She sat there like a big girl.
my beautiful girls

tech note: Olympus point and shoot, Kodak 400CN film

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spring is just round the corner

Thoughts of warmer days ahead, planting tomatoes and herbs with our girls,  the first days of spring,  making fresh bruschetta from the garden in the summer. mmmm!

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