George Lange's beautiful work

Whenever I imagined a career in photography, I talked myself out of it. So few photogs actually get paid to do the kind of work that I'm passionate about. I didn't want to end up just another wannabe portraitist making ends meet by doing weddings and catalogs, which is the fate of most. The career I fantasized about, George Lange has. Good for him. Click on the pic at right to see his absolutely beautiful flip-book. (Hat tip to Dooce.) If his surfeit of gorgeous work makes you think, even for an instant, that what he does is easy, have a look at the video below. It's a time-lapse record of a single celebrity photo shoot. In this case, the subject was Martin Scorsese. And this wasn't a particularly involved shoot. ..