I finally came up with a new technique for representing the numbers. For awhile I’ve wanted to put numbers on top of the textures I’m painting; but the numbers really need to be flat, and therefore rigid; in addition, it needs to be doable in a timeframe that will not send me to crazytown. Anyway, Read more…
Driving around in San Francisco over the weekend, I stumbled upon this super-ultra-geometric parking garage. Certainly these aren’t great standard architecture shots, but with shapes like this, at this time of day, with this kind of light, abstract is the way to go… I should add that these are all color images and have had Read more…
My buddies Monsters are not Myths played at the Make-Out Room this weekend. Great venue, but photographically it’s kind of weird. The stage is great (and I could roam as I pleased), particularly because there are two levels (so the drummer and bass player were elevated–much better for photos), but the lightinng is so predominantly Read more…
Saturday, Emily and I did a shoot for our friends at Array Interactive. We needed to get some standard headshots, but their direction was “we want to look cool”. We shot in two locations: the San Jose Diridon train station (for their cement, hard-cornered tunnel and for a “going places” feel I wanted to try), Read more…
I got my Canon XTi almost exactly one year ago. In that year I’ve been all over the place and learned a huge amount about photography and lighting through some pretty concerted effort. Now, it’s a new year, and I want to do more paid photography work. To that end I’ve launched a new portfolio Read more…
I haven’t done much painting lately, but a trip to the Seattle Museum of Art and a look at a Jackson Pollock inspired me. Somewhere along the way I realized that I wanted to do a really gestural painting with a lot of thin white lines. The number 4970006670 came to mind in the middle Read more…
We laughed, we cried, we wore antlers. It was a really, really good time in Seattle and the surrounding area this year–and everyone was game for getting dressed up ridiculously for silly photos. With my new camera and lenses, there was just so much to do! It was GREAT. I really miss everyone.
Ok let me provide the list of odd circumstances that led to this: Since the whole family was together for Christmas, we planned for me to take a bunch of family photos. Naturally we couldn’t possibly do that in a normal way. Instead, we wanted to recreate some famous photos and photo types. We’ve had Read more…
There was a Richard Avedon exhibit at the SF MOMA last year (outstanding, of course) and I saw this there: Leading up to Christmas, as we discussed the family photos we hoped to take, the idea of recreating some famous photographs came up. Everyone was in for this one and I knew it would be Read more…