6×6 is the blog of editorial and commercial photographer Tait Simpson. Brooklyn, New York creating artistic environmental portraits and landscape images.
Are you a man or a yellow bag with a phone book inside? I’ve been listening to the new Frightened Rabbit LP a lot lately. It is fantastic and reminds me of my time living in Edinburgh. Anyway, this picture makes me think of the lyrics from Man/Bag of Sand.
Yellow Bag
When the circus comes to town I get similarly excited.
Paramount
Here are a couple of images from a recent walk down Manhattan Ave in Greenpoint. I love this street and will often take a walk to visit the bank or post office rather than make the trip into the real Manhattan. There’s always a lot of activity, as anyone familiar with the area [...]
I’ve been shooting a lot of reflections lately, like the Hotel Delmano series and Ghost in the Machine. Here’s another much different from those, made in the open door of a bar around the corner. It is never open for business, but the shelves are stocked. Occasionally the doors are flung wide [...]
During a recent location scouting trip to Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
Soft Serve
I found this security guy asleep on the job the other day just after stopping to admire this dark and ominous cloud formation heading in my direction.
Sleeping Security Guard
Gathering Storm
Below are a few new images taken here in the neighborhood at this wood palette recycling center. I’ve never seen so many palettes in one place, and as exciting as that sounds it certainly doesn’t smell nice in July.
Palettes #1
Palettes Worker
Palettes #2
A few images from the Puerto Rican Day celebration at McCarren Park a few weeks ago.
Flags
1982
Balloons
Here’s a recent image of my good buddy Venturo, looking thick like a body builder. Taken the same day as the Yuengling can below and shot with one of my pride and joy/piece of photographic history cameras: the Leica M6 TTL. After an inspiring conversation with a friend recently about this camera, I [...]
You won’t often find me leaning over to take photographs of flowers, small animals or other such things, but here are a few images from a short series I was working on for a little while called Flowers at the Hotel Delmano. Each time I’d pass it seemed there was a new bouquet in [...]
