Tips From Thomas Hawk–How He Gets His Shots

Tune in to to Thomas Hawk on Marc Silber Show

A few weeks ago  as the sun was about to set into the Pacific, Thomas Hawk and I, along with our producer Rocky, met up at Baker Beach in San Francisco–a tremendous view of the Golden Gate Bridge. With the bridge as our backdrop, I talked to Thomas about how he got his start in photography and some of his key points that he uses every time he takes a photograph. Click to view our show.

Top of his list:  He carries a camera with him everywhere, and I mean he always has his photo-backpack with him.  You’ll see what he carries in his pack and hear him talk about his “tipping point”– when he decided on his mission to publish one million photos, I’ve posted a few of his shots here but check into his blog to see more.

Thomas has gone out and recorded our modern life, prolifically.  You know, 20 years from now–or more, we’ll look back nostalgically at his images and wonder why we had missed those shots. He’s not missing them, he’s grabbing them and chronicling life all around him, every single day.