David Lasnick has always been the guy who brings his camera every place he goes, but it wasn”™t until the advent of digital pictures and Web logs that he was able to take the kind of photos he wanted and had a place to display them.
“In the beginning, it was mostly just for memories,” said Lasnick. “Something to have to look at when people got together. It wasn”™t until digital that it really made it possible to do something that before I really couldn”™t do on my own.”
Lasnick grew up in Stamford and has lived there most of his life.
He attended the University of Connecticut and went on to law school at Syracuse University College of Law graduating in 1985.
“I was known among my group of friends in college as always the one with the camera,” said Lasnick. “I took a year off in between college and law school and worked on a mayoral political campaign in Stamford. I actually took all the photographs of all the candidates running that year.”
Lasnick worked for Stamford and Bridgeport law firms before going into business for himself in 1991. He opened the Law Office of David P. Lasnick specializing in residential and commercial real estate, land use law, residential tax appeals and estate planning.
He now lives in Stamford with his wife Beth Dempsey and their two children: Rachel, 19, and Ryan, 15, in the Shippan area of Stamford.
Through the years, Lasnick continued to keep his camera in his car, just in case a view caught his eye traveling from one client to the next.
“If you were doing photography on your own, you needed the time, skills and equipment,” said Lasnick. “You could do black and white work but getting the right effects with color was very hard.”
Without the ability to utilize color in the way that he wanted Lasnick”™s affection for photography remained something of an oxymoron: actively dormant.
But, “When the digital cameras came down to around a thousand dollars I just jumped in,” said Lasnick
In 2005, Lasnick bought a Nikon point and shoot, but it was the purchase of his Canon EOS Digital Rebel two years ago that changed everything.
“You can take ultimate amount of pictures, hundreds and thousands of pictures.”
Lasnick said the process of shooting and blogging is about relaxation.
“I keep the camera with me all the time,” he said. “I have it in the car all the time. The fact that I”™m out and about gives me an opportunity to combine the driving and the traveling with a creative side.”
Lasnick said the photography helps keep his creativity conscious and gives him an outlet for his ideas.
“I”™m not doing deep legal research or esoteric topics and so the photography allows my creative side to come out which doesn”™t necessarily come out in my practice,” said Lasnick.
Nearly three years ago Lasnick began his photo blog, www.mypointofview.my-expressions.com.
“I knew about blogs but had never heard of a photo blog,” said Lasnick. “I Googled it and sure enough there it was.”
The introduction of the blog gave Lasnick, who has never taken a photography class, a boost, enabling him to chronicle his shots and to develop and evolve his techniques. His shots often involve nature, landscapes and horizons.
“What happens is if you take a lot of pictures you run out of wall space,” said Lasnick. “You can only give out so many pictures, you run out of an excuse to take them.” Â Â
Lasnick, now armed with a pretext, adds photos to his blog on a daily basis.
“I take shots of things that don”™t necessarily mean anything to you but might mean something to other people,” said Lasnick. “You also get to see what other people are doing.”
Lasnick takes pride in his photo work and values the comments he receives, usually between two and five a day.
Though the digital camera and the Web blog have built Lasnick”™s hobby and his skill into shots that are on the brink of professional, he to this day gets together with his friends from college and pulls out the old slides, remembering where it all started.
