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August 3, 2014
July 16, 2014
Pinhole Moment
Pinhole photography is really the closest thing I do to meditation. There is something about making an image with no certainty in mind that creates a zen like experience for me. No viewfinder, no precise way to calculate exposure, no confidence what-so-ever that the effort I put into it will result in an image at all.
I like that.
Camera: Holga Wide Angle Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Bend, OR
July 15, 2014
Blend
Sometimes I just love forcing the model to bleed into the landscape and disappear.
Camera: Mamiya 645e
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Bend, OR
July 10, 2014
Much Too Hot!
It has been incredibly hot these past few days, which makes me long for skies like this.
Camera: Sony A7
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island
July 9, 2014
Gorge Light
I had absolutely gorgeous light going on here that was unfortunately completely backlighting the model. That posed a bit of a challenge to say the least. Fortunately I think I managed to pull it off to some degree.
My favorite little detail is the ship floating along in the background on the right hand side of the frame. It gets lost a bit when looking at the image on-line, but in print it is really obvious and rad.
Camera: Sony A7
Location: Columbia River Gorge, OR
July 6, 2014
Little Portrait
I love the little sliver of light falling right down the middle of the model's face. It's just a nice subtle draw on the eye that I quite enjoy.
Camera: Minolta Maxxum 7
Model: St. Merrique
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Portland, OR
July 4, 2014
Cape Lookout
I'm not the most patriotic person on earth, but I figured today was a good day to post something colorful.
Camera: Bessa R3A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: Cape Lookout, OR
July 2, 2014
Pinhole
Pinhole photograph. Exposure was about thirty seconds on a sheet of 4x5 film.
Camera: Ilford Titan Pinhole
Film: Fomapan 100
Location: Portland, OR - Sauvie Island
July 1, 2014
Color Shift
Working with Kodak Ektar under hot lights yields some rather extreme color shifts, but I sort of like the results anyway.
Camera: Mamiya C330 TLR
Film: Kodak Ektar
Location: San Francisco, CA
June 28, 2014
Not Mine
Maybe I’m just borrowing someone else’s life so I don’t have to live my own.
Camera: Sony A7
Model: St. Merrique
Location: Portland, OR
June 27, 2014
Commitment
“I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.”
I recently re-read my well-worn copy of High Fidelity and I have to say the older I get the more relevant this book becomes for me. The above quote in particular really resonated in my brain because I feel like there are a lot of people in my life (myself included!!) who have trouble making commitments. Career commitments, creative commitments, romantic commitments, really they are all the same and somehow I have found myself locked in a culture where everyone is afraid to take a stand for fear of becoming trapped.
We all like to think that the best strategy is to keep our options open. After all, if you go down one path full force, any and all potential doors in life will close and you’ll be stuck doing something you may not love. The problem is, keeping your options open also means you are standing still. You will never reach those moments of opportunity and they will never just fall in your lap either. We just wait and stand around sitting on the fence scratching our heads wondering why the answers never seem to come.
I think the challenge is to wrap my brain around the fact that a bad decision is far better than no decision at all. Any sort of momentum, even momentum in the wrong direction, is better than the indefinite waiting for that magic bullet that will tell us the right path to take. That simply does not exist. After all, I can always change direction and there are no choices that can’t be undone. Committing to something doesn’t by any means indicate I am sealed off from other opportunities. This isn’t easy mind you, but it is necessary. It’s necessary because by waiting around we are all just killing ourselves through the slow and deliberate action of indecision and doing nothing. Remembering this very simple fact comes wrapped in a box of fear and self-loathing and the cold hard inevitability that I will probably fail at least a few times before I find success. I just can’t forget, running head first into a wall and failing miserably is at the very least admirable.
But you know what the worst part is? When we commit to nothing we doom ourselves to a fate even worse than suicide. We become boring. We don’t provide a reason for the world or for anyone to care about us. We have nothing to show for our time on this earth and not a soul to mourn us beyond the acquaintances on our speed dial or the supposed friends who drifted past us on their own stagnant journey of non-commitment.
June 21, 2014
Head On The Door
This pretty much personifies my mood this weekend.
Camera: Sony A7
Model: Sarah Pardini
Location: Portland, OR
Time to Rest
Completely tired, worn out, and a little broken today. Time to take this opportunity and rest up for a bit.
Camera: Sony A7
Model: Keira Grant
Location: Portland, OR - Columbia River Gorge
June 19, 2014
Trudging Along
Three hours of sleep. Worked an eight hour day in the office. Off to do a photo shoot.
Sometimes I wonder how it is I keep up.
Camera: Leica M
Location: Portland, OR - Columbia River Gorge
June 18, 2014
Smoking
Yeah, I’ll admit it, I have a “thing” for watching a person smoke a cigarette. I know that puts me in the same camp as about 85% of the rest of the population and I don’t really care. When something works, it just simply works.
Camera: Mamiya RZ67
Film: Ilford HP5
Model: St. Merrique
Location: Portland, OR
June 16, 2014
Expressions
Playing with facial expressions. Not to mention continuing my complete obsessions with color negative film.
Camera: Minolta Maxxum 7
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Camera: Minolta Maxxum 7
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
June 15, 2014
Sun and Clouds
I've been getting a lot of pleasure out of shooting landscapes lately. I think it is a healthy distraction for me, just taking long walks and admiring the way the sky moves and changes and turns different colors over the passage of time.
Camera: Sony A7
Location: Columbia River Gorge
June 13, 2014
Coming Back
I haven’t worked with Keira Grant in well over a year. Thankfully the passage of time doesn’t seem to much matter when it comes to the people you like.
Camera: Sony A7
Model: Keira Grant
Location: Columbia River Gorge
June 8, 2014
The Things We Remember
Not a lot to say today. Mostly just busy inside of my own head.
Camera: Mamiya RZ67
Film: Fomapan 100
Model: Olivia Odd
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