[Mike McCarty]

I have been completely unproductive during the holiday season. However, I was able to get this image recently.

This was taken with my Mamiya 645 medium format camera with portra 160 film on a tripod. The lighting was provided by the light which hangs over the pool table. It resembles the long blue horizontal shapes in the background. I had someone on the other side of the table twist the light up onto the subject. To my amazement, the light offered no peculiar color addition.

This man is a bit of a legend, he is a pool hustler. For all the years I have known him, and most of the years of his life, that is all that he has ever done. Besides showing him well, I wanted to suggest a sense of what he was about.

I would be interested in any comments, especially regarding a minimum size canvas. Also, any comments on the space that I have given the subject. I have a tendency to crop too tightly.