Great beards should be photographed.
The documentary beard project formally has a home on beards.org now. The first photo album is that of Brian, starting out with twelve photos. There will be much more to come — in Brian’s album and others. Click on the image above to go there.
A friendly gentleman with an amazing beard used to run the Hess gas station in front of Manassas Mall in Virginia. He kept the massive full beard pretty much all of the time, but occasionally would shave it off and commence re-growing it again right away. One time when he was in the early stages of growing the beard again, I looked at his beard in awe and thought to myself that the beard growth was so dense and abundant, that it appeared to gush out from his face. He was a beard gusher — an extraordinary sight, indeed!
I would guess that he has long-since retired by now. I haven’t been to Virginia in many years. Still, I’ll never forget the sight of that powerful beard. Beards like his are rarely seen. This makes an excellent case for documentary beard photography. Great beards should be photographed!
After a much-too-long hiatus, the beards.org documentary beard photography project resumed activity yesterday with another original beard photo shoot. Dale, with his amazing beard growth, kindly agreed to the beard photo shoot. Here are some preview shots from March 20th, 2009.
