Jacob O'Connell's photostream

I'm an Amateur/Semi-Pro Photographer in Syracuse, N.Y. My mind is choke-full of ideas, most are crazy, some are amazing. Typically I put those on my blog.

The crazier ones, go on (my)Twitter, Occasionally if you follow you'll get a gem though.

Message for Facebook.





Cameralabs.com is an amazing website! The best reviews around. Great forum, used to be a lot more active, not most of my posts are thought-provoking.

DIY Photography is the source for a lot of my crafty projects. It's truly what got me started in lighting and diy-ing.

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." (From Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451