Daily photo

New work!

Sorta! During evaluation week at school, when PhotoLand was closed, I decided to scan a ton of negatives that I've shot over the past quarter. I have high hopes of getting some work done on my website while I'm in Colorado, but I highly doubt it. Due to the weather we've been getting here in the Pacific Northwest, my trip has been cut down from 11 days to a short week. That, is an entirely different story I will not go into now. It's far too complicated and frustrating to discuss.Anywho! On to the reason reason for this post! My new work! I once again tackled portraits this quarter. I've started shooting a faster film, and sometimes use flash to give my photographs a bit more vibrance. I try to keep it minimum as I greatly appriciate the simplicity of natural light. As part of my contract this year as an intern in the photography department at my school, I'll be participating in two group shows this year. The first one is due to go up in February, but the location or the exact date is still undecided. Here's a few images I've scanned and watermarked for your viewing pleasure. They may or may not be included in the February show. I'm still in the editing process.

thought

The road is a tired and lonely place, filled with surprise in every turn.

The summer has arrived.

...and that means it's time to go back to school! I'm taking a color film photography course this summer, and I'm quite excited to go back to school, make up credits that I missed while in my 6 months off, and see if I can working on graduating on time. Anywho, I spent most of the day with a friend of mine from school, and we checked out Black Lake, which has a swimming spot. She (Althea) was looking for good images for a photo journalism course she's taking, and I went along for company, and perhaps my own photographs. I didn't find any, and she found little.

Later on, we met up with my friend Alex to complete the first assignment for my color photo class: to shoot 1-2 rolls of film and have them processed by monday's 9am class. Well, I found the second half of the roll much easier to shoot in a bar at 5pm, with plenty of daylight inside the place. After I completed my roll, Althea and I headed back to my place to gather some digital equipment, and I ended up shooting a roll of 35mm color film in the backyard of my humble abode. I started off shooting digital, and realized that the light back there (7pm) was perfect, so I quickly shot a 35mm roll for the color class to process tomorrow. After that we checked out this property that had been raided by the local cops, and we thought it was abandoned, after taking some images with an old truck as a prop, we realized there we people living in there, we headed out. The following images were taken in my backyard and the property we explored:

Fort Popham

So I have been going over images, and recently stumbed upon this awesome plug in for photoshop called Alien Skin Exposure 2. It's basically a plug in that contains filters for different film types, so you can put it over a digital image and have it resemble a certain image shot using a film. It's pretty cool, although its price isn't. So here's an image i applied the filter of Fuji Velvia 100F to.

This is a part of Fort Popham in Phippsburg, Maine.

SLC

I made it to salt lake city in about7.5 hours with 2 stops for gas in Wyoming. Oh wyoming. If you've ever driven on I80 through there you'd feel my pain. There's nothing, for miles. Luckily, I didn't almost run out of gas like the previous times I'd gone though. So I'm headed to Boise today after staying the night with my brother in law Raffi and his girlfriend Ischa. (thanks bridg for spelling)

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

Hey folks! My faithful car, Stella, and I are back on the road again. We head from Colorado at 11am tomorrow (Tuesday, 5/27/08) morning headed to Salt Lake City, Utah to stay with family for the night and a short visit on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the next stop is Boise, ID, about 4 hours later. I'm going to see if I can push further, but so far, research hasn't shown much existence between Boise, ID and Portland, OR.

Thursday: I head from Boise, ID to Portland, OR to visit friends for dinner, and then its up to Washington for the final haul.

That's the plan so far. If you need/would like to contact me, cell would be best. Thanks for reading, and within the next month, a full complete log of my trip through California and the South west will be available. I'm still working on details. In addition I'll be compiling images for a book as well which will be available for purchase.