Go O!

Every once in awhile, O's amateur photography efforts pay off. He has on a few occasions now had people or organizations email him asking to use some of his photos for something. One of the first was some small Dutch printers wanting to use a photo or two of his in travel books they were publishing; I can't remember if that actually happened though.

More recently, a marketing/ad sort of company in New York asked if they could use some of the bike photos O's made because it fit in with the theme they had planned to market themselves. Sometime in January (a little late) we received a Christmas card from the company and one of these bike photos was on the front. Cool. So everyone who got a card from them saw a photo of O's and it credited his website on the back.

Now, thanks to the photos he took of the Decemberists in Cologne, two of his photos of Petra Haden (their touring violinist) feature on her official website. One photo is the one on the main page and in the banner at the top, the other is the first one on the bio page (funny enough, the person who took the other photo on the bio page is the guy who I just linked to the other day. I thought I recognized that photo...). Using O's photos came about after he received an email from her manager asking if they could use a photo or two on the new website for Petra that was being made. O said sure, and now the photos are up! There is a slight problem of O not being well credited (there is his copyright still in the bottom right of the photos, but with them being much smaller than on his website, you can hardly see it), but Petra's manager assures that'll be fixed.

Hopefully we'll see Petra play again with the Decemberists in May, she's so sweet and funny. Weird though to find out she's a triplet. Assuming they're identical, three women out there looking like that is just not fair.