Spent a day last week chasing a local group of Parkour athletes around Portland. Stop by the NEW BLOG and take a look.

Spent a day last week chasing a local group of Parkour athletes around Portland. Stop by the NEW BLOG and take a look.

Hey! Hey, you! Haven’t you heard? Mark Fleming Photography has just launched a totally redesigned, much improved, shiny new website! But wait, if you click within the next ten minutes we’ll throw in a custom designed, sexy new blog for free! Just pay shipping and handling. So, what are you waiting for ya’ll. Get outta here! NEW WEBSITE | NEW BLOG

Hey! Hey, you! Haven’t you heard? Mark Fleming Photography has just launched a totally redesigned, much improved, shiny new website! But wait, if you click within the next ten minutes we’ll throw in a custom designed, sexy new blog for free! Just pay shipping and handling. So, what are you waiting for ya’ll. Get outta here! NEW WEBSITE | NEW BLOG

A few frames from tonight's Derby shoot  Lucky for me, I've been adopted by the Maine Roller Derby to be the official foto-graph-er. Basically, I get free admission to all the seasons home bouts! Unfortunately I have to keep myself and my lens out of the beer garden. It's harder than it may seem, especially since the Maine roller girls are sponsored by PBR!  ...

A few frames from tonight's Derby shoot  Lucky for me, I've been adopted by the Maine Roller Derby to be the official foto-graph-er. Basically, I get free admission to all the seasons home bouts! Unfortunately I have to keep myself and my lens out of the beer garden. It's harder than it may seem, especially since the Maine roller girls are sponsored by PBR!  Seriously though, get online and type the name of your city + roller derby into Google. I guarantee you there is a league within at least 40 minutes of your home town. So what ya waiting for? Get off the couch and go watch some girls on skates beat each other to a pulp, all in the name of fun!  P.S. The lovely ladies who challenged our very own Maine roller girls tonight had driven all the way from Ohio! That, my friends, is true derby dedication.  PP.SS. A lot of exciting things coming down the pipe for MFPHOTO. Teaser to come shortly! 

Today my trusty assistant (AKA Dad) took the trip down I95 and straight into the heart of Beantown USA. Why you ask? Well that is none of your damn business!  Just kidding! The real reason for our trip to the big city was to meet-up with an old friend  for the second installment of his headshot session. Steve, a great guy and talented actor, is well on his way to becoming...

Today my trusty assistant (AKA Dad) took the trip down I95 and straight into the heart of Beantown USA. Why you ask? Well that is none of your damn business!  Just kidding! The real reason for our trip to the big city was to meet-up with an old friend  for the second installment of his headshot session. Steve, a great guy and talented actor, is well on his way to becoming Hollywood’s next ‘big thing!’ Only one thing stands between him and unbridled cinematic success...an undeniably poignant and strikingly beautiful headshot.  Ok, so that might have been a bit dramatic. However, the fact remains that the guy needed a headshot and as luck would have it, I happen to know a thing or two about photography.  It was a tough shoot. Not only were we battling against the raging mid-day sun, but we also had to dodge a soccer ball from time to time seeing as our location neighbored a local playground. All in all, it was a good time. Though, I have to admit it’s pretty hard to have a bad time while hanging out with Steve.  Details on today’s shot: •Nikon D700 •Nikon 14-24 f/2.8 •Nikon SB800 (camera left) at 1/4 power Trust me, the position I ended up in trying to capture this shot was anything but flattering! Pretty sure I was picking random bits of asphalt out of my hair for a good five minutes after this one.

Despite what you might have heard, I am still alive, I haven’t struck it big, and definitely haven’t made a run for it ... at least not yet. My blatant absence of late has instead been due to several increasingly frustrating occurrences, allow me to elaborate.  The first of these wonderful acts happened about two weeks ago. My first clue that something was awry was when...

Despite what you might have heard, I am still alive, I haven’t struck it big, and definitely haven’t made a run for it ... at least not yet. My blatant absence of late has instead been due to several increasingly frustrating occurrences, allow me to elaborate.  The first of these wonderful acts happened about two weeks ago. My first clue that something was awry was when my faithful Mac G5 tower locked up tighter than a drum and promptly refused to reboot.  After nearly a week of fiddling, frantic trips to the Apple store, and a few swift kicks to the side the issue made itself disturbingly clear.  My liquid cooling unit (yes, G5 towers are liquid cooled - who knew?!) had apparently had enough of this cruel world and decided to end it’s time here with style. The thing blew up! Yup you heard right, my computer blew the hell up!   Now, as one might imagine, when a liquid cooling unit blows up it makes quite a mess. So much of a mess in fact that everything located due south of said unit was totally fried. Rest in peace dear friend, you were loved.  This story leads me to my next piece of news and as luck would have it to tonight’s image. Considering what was left of my once proud G5 was now sitting in a heap in the local Apple Store, I thought it might be a good time to check out what those crazy geeks over at Mac had dreamt up since I had last been in the market.  What did I find? A lot of really, really cool stuff. The problem of course, is that all that really cool stuff is really, really friggin’ expensive! Despite my financial hesitation the fact  still remains that when you are a digital photographer having a computer is sort of a necessity. Alright, enough crying over spilt cooling liquid - time to introduce the new set-up! 24” iMac (3.06GHz, 4GB memory, 1TB hard drive, 8x double-layer SuperDrive) 20” Apple Cinema Display (recycled from my G5) Wacom Intuos3 Platinum 12” x 19” graphics tablet (My best friend...sad...but true) Spyder 3 Elite monitor calibration system (Go Spyder, it’s your birthday!) G-Raid 500GB external hard drive (2) LaCie Quadra 1TB external hard drives (back-up, back-up, and back-up AGAIN!) 15” MacBookPro (2.4 GHz, 4GB memory) *Dedicated road warrior Epson Stylus 2200 - Freebie from work? Sometimes retail DOES pay! Epson Stylus 7800 - Work horse for those photos that just have to be seen big Xbox 360 ... Ooooh, sorry we’re talking about photo gear. There you have it folks. The inner sanctum of Mark Fleming Photography, or, as I like to refer to it...the Bat Cave!