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Oil on Pensacola Beach 6-27-2010

I also found the Community Outreach Center and it was completely empty and it didn’t look like the building was actually being used for anything. It was a Saturday, so perhaps they don’t work weekends?

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Panama City Beach BP Staging Area

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An Alabama Farmhouse

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Panama City Beach Night Scene

The food is incredible and the atmosphere is a great combination of classy and relaxed.

They have a small garden in the back where they grow some of their own vegetables.

Todd is a great chef! I’ve eaten there several times and the menu always has new items.

Big thanks to Josh Geyer for the awesome assist!

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Portraits of Todd Ginsberg, Executive Chef at Bocado

Thanks to my pal Artem Nazarov for the awesome assist and thanks to Zia over at Lucid Partners for hiring me!

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Portrait of CEO James Geiger

Last week I was over for dinner and Nadine started playing her piano so I grabbed my camera and made a few images!

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Nadine Playing Piano

This last one is my breakfast, Salami and Mangu, one morning during the workshop!

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Dominican Republic- A few more images

These next few are from a young mango grove. In the mud on the ground were thousands of small hermit crabs scurrying about. It looked the ground was moving!

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More Pinones, Puerto Rico

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Morgan the Zombie Hunter

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Lizards in Puerto Rico

The kids come here to fly their kites! The sky is literally filled with kites! Very cool!

One of the only downsides of Old San Juan, seems to be the parking situation. It’s very hard to find a spot on the narrow streets.

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Old San Juan Part 2

This is a 465-year-old neighborhood originally conceived as a military stronghold. Its 7-square-block area has evolved into a charming residential and commercial district. The streets here are paved with cobbles of adoquine, a blue stone cast from furnace slag; they were brought over a ballast on Spanish ships and time and moisture have lent them their characteristic color. The city includes more than 400 carefully restored 16th- and 17th-century Spanish colonial buildings.

– From www.topuertorico.org/city/sanjuan.shtml

This one is shot through a hole in a door of one of the few buildings in disrepair.

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Old San Juan part 1

This is fried plantain with crapmeat inside.

They said this was chicken on a stick, but I’m not sure… it might have been iguana.

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Fried Puerto Rican Food

UPDATE: here’s one more I just found of the tagteam!

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The Producers of my Caribbean Lightroom Workshops

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A Dominican Night

So in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, we had lunch in the Colonial Zone and then went and did some street photography for about an hour. Then we came back to the classroom and had 30 minutes to import, sort, edit/develop, and prepare a 5 image slideshow for peer review. We had a great time and my students did some really impressive work!

Anyway, of course I did the assignment as well and my selected images are below (with a bonus pigeon shot), developed entirely within Lightroom!

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Dominican Street Photography – Colonial Zone

One of my thoughts was that I have plenty of things in my life that make me happy so even though the tradition is to receive gifts on one’s birthday, I wanted to give something! I decided to give some portraits to people who may not get a chance to have a nice portrait made very often. I took the idea from Help Portrait!

I went to a small neighborhood near Piñones just as the sun was starting it’s daily descent and approached people to ask if I could take their photo. Many didn’t want their picture made. That’s ok. I didn’t want to pressure anyone to do anything they were uncomfortable with. But many said yes, so Alicia held a speedlite with a small softbox just off to one side and I took a few shots of everyone who wanted one! Alicia was also kind enough to go back and deliver prints to each person I shot!

I had a great time and I definitely have to thank Alicia for helping to make my birthday an unforgettable one!

Here are a few of my favorites!

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Puerto Rico Portraits

This is my lunch during one of the workshop days. We brought our lunch back to the classroom to save time! Rice, Chicken, and Pastelón de platano maduro (ripe plantain casserole).

This is an appetizer, Dominica Quipe (arabian kibbeh, wheat and lamb, fried)

This is Mofongo: fried plantain with garlic and Chicharrón (fried pork rinds). I also had Mofongo de Yuca (cassava root)

Yummy!

Thanks to Alicia and Su-jung for being such great hosts as I stumble around with wide eyes!

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Dominican Food

I made a short trip to Arkansas back in Feb. and found a little skate park and decided to do some night photography of the skater kids doing jumps and tricks. It was fun and the kids were working hard to show off for the camera.

I shot these with 2 Canon Speedlights, a Canon wireless commander, and the assistance of my little brother Matt.

The full skater gallery can be seen by clicking here!

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Skate park at night

Anyway, my time in the Dominican was short and I wasn’t able to shoot much, but I snapped a few images from the passenger seat during one of my cab rides in the wild Dominican traffic. As is the case in many countries, stop signs are mostly just for decoration!

Here, the delivery guy is driving against the traffic flow.

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Dominican Republic cab ride

This photo was done completely in camera with the only photoshop work being basic sharpening, color balance, and the text at the very bottom which states, “belief in God is no excuse for hatred”.

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belief in god is no excuse for hatred

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Just try to imagine this guy dancing too…

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Mitch Headshot/Portraits

So, grab a cupcake (with sprinkles), a candle, a few studio strobes, and we are all set!

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Arcade Fire CD Cover Mockup

Alex Martinez looks closely at one of Andrea Fremiotti's prints at Big Studio Gallery.

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Andrea Fremiotti Gallery at Big Studio

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Rainbow Headshot

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Clinton Library

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Venus Fly Trap

Here’s a picture taken (not by me) in downtown Atlanta…(click picture for source)

My apartment complex was severely flooded and everyone was evacuated. It all happened very quickly. I had been out of town for the weekend and came back at about 3:00pm. One side of the complex was already flooded and it was getting worse by the minute.

Peachtree Creek, which runs through the center of Buckhead (my neighborhood in Atlanta), and right next to my apartment was flooding its banks. Normally running at about 3 feet, anything above 13 feet is considered flood level. It eventually peaked at 24 feet around 6:45pm.

They had to key in to some apartments of people that weren’t home to save their pets!

They were also pulling cars out of the flooded area.

They also feverishly made sandbags and tried to protect areas that were about to be flooded.

At around 4:15 I came to the conclusion that my apartment was going to flood, so I started throwing everything up on top other stuff. I took my most valuable possessions and loaded up my car. That’s my car parked right outside my front door.

This is the parking lot behind my apartment, below about 2 feet of water.

Around 5:30 the firefighters came around and told everyone to evacuate. I left around 6:15 and the water was ankle deep around my car. I took Charlee and my computer, harddrives, camera gear, and some clothes and went to a crappy hotel that my apartment complex was kind enough to pay for.

When I left the water was just about to come up in under the sliding glass doors on my back porch and about 2 inches from coming in the front door. I knew the water was going to get in, I just wondered how high it was going to get. Atlanta was predicted to get several more days of rain.

Fortunately, the rain stopped at about 6:45 and didn’t start again.

The next day I came back to inspect the damage and discovered that the water had receded and my apartment had only gotten wet carpet in a few areas. It smelled terrible but the damage was very minimal. The water did come in through the front door a little bit but the sliding glass doors didn’t have any leaks. The worst areas were on one side of the apartment where the floor was lower than the ground outside. Somehow the water seeped through either the wall or came in at the foundation level. We had about 4 feet of wet carpet along that whole side of the apartment.

I was lucky. Many of my friends weren’t.

I moved out of that apartment a few weeks later and moved in with a friend of mine into a house that he just bought. I’m finally getting settled in a little bit and have the time to write up this blog post.

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The Great Atlanta Flood of ’09

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View of New York

Big thanks goes to my buddy Shibu for assisting on this one! And another big thanks to Maryam for coming out and shooting these behind the scenes photos!

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Jay at Park

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Portrait for Quest Magazine

When photographer Paul Mobley set out to capture the soul of our country’s farm communities, he encountered an enduring rural culture that remains rooted in the principles of tradition, family, integrity and hard work. Traveling across the country from Tennessee to Montana, Mobley and his camera were welcomed time and again into the homes of over two hundred farm families, who graciously shared their personal histories and private thoughts, along with the fruits of their labor. Visit after visit, Mobley came to know the independent farmer’s spirit from both behind the lens and across the dinner table.

You should definitely click on his name above to check out his website! His work is awesome!

Click here if you don’t see a gallery below.

 

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Paul Mobley Portraits

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76 Monte Carlo

Well he just sent me the video below and I thought it might be interesting for you to learn a little more about the artist and his work! If you need some metalwork done, check out http://www.smithworksiron.com

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Jason Smith of Smithworks Iron

Author Portrait: create a black and white portrait, at twilight, of an author for use in promo materials

Artist Portrait: create a portrait of an artisan in their workspace for an ad

CEO: create a portrait of a young hip CEO for a magazine article

Kitchen Composite: Shoot a kitchen then shoot a studio portrait and composite them together for an ad

Country Music Singer: create a composite of a country music star with a beautiful background for promo purposes

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Deliverables for Environmental Portraiture

1- White on White
This was my favorite image of the quarter and also the first one I shot.

2- Something Shiny

3- Mixed Lighting (mine is strobes mixed with sunlight)

4- Three Light Portrait

This one is my roommate Shaun. He kissed a moving car while riding his bike a few days before this picture was taken.

My critique panel seemed to like these images and the head of the photography department sent me an email saying

“Great critique! You’ve made some long strides this quarter. The panel was impressed with your lighting for 2nd quarter. You have a good sense of what’s good and what’s not. You didn’t try to sell us something that wasn’t good and we appreciate that. I loved the white on white!”

I’ll post the pics from my Environmental Portraiture class tomorrow!

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Deliverables for Intermediate Lighting

The one below is some of my friends from school, (LtoR: Stewart, Sam, Missy) working on a poster project many many weeks ago. You can see my laptop in the background with a pretty picture on it. Yeah I did that on purpose!

The next three are from Lighting Class. The first one is in our studio at school, and the second and third are at a studio here in Atlanta where we sometimes have class!

This one is just a random shot of one of my studio setups for a photo I took. I’ll eventually post it online, but for now, just know that I had somebody sitting in that chair and I got a great portrait of them!

The one below is from my illustration class called Perspective. It’s pretty interesting!

This last one is my friend and classmate Monica. We were out shooting on location and I was standing in as a model while she set up the shot, I just shot this one from the hip without looking through the viewfinder and was pleased that I actually got a halfway decent shot!

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Random recent photos from March and April

It was moderately interesting, but my favorite part was definitely tasting all the variety of drinks that the Coke company manufactures. They have over 60 options available and you just walk around and try as many as you like. I tasted about 12-15 and that was plenty.

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World of Coke

So anyway, I snapped a few pics when I was in town last month.

You can look at the whole gallery by clicking here.

Or you can find more pictures and a lot more information, including available kittens and prices by checking out her cattery site: www.hopescircle.com!

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Naked Cats!

The above photo is Leigh Anna, my classmate in our Location Portraits class. The photo below is my class (taught by Joel Silverman- center, red shirt, big camera) in Wynn Park learning a little about natural light portraits. I like this class a lot and look forward to really getting some good portrait practice.

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Leigh Anna and Location Portraits

Luckily she only had minor injuries to one knee, but the car couldn’t be driven. I was close by so I went to give moral support while she waited for the tow truck. Now she’s dealing with insurance companies and doing that whole routine. No Fun!

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Diana’s Car Accident

Luckily no one I know was hurt, although there were some fatalities and serious injuries associated with this storm. Hopefully that was the last of the spring storms and we can start enjoying the sunshine!

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Atlanta Storms

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Asleep at the Bus Stop

She convinced me to stop and try to get a picture of it. So, as soon it saw us approaching it ran away and we chased it through the neighborhood, finally catching up to it in this scary yard.

The couple who lived there gave me permission to roam around in their yard to try to get a shot of the peacock. I was able to get a few shots but he was pretty camera shy!

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The Wild Peacock Chase

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Rolling clouds gather no moss

The one above is actually one that I submitted for the assignment. The assignment was to explore motion using natural light.

The one above is another one shot for an assignment called “Shaft of Light”. I ended up taking another shaft of light picture because I didn’t want to have two images from the aquarium in my critique portfolio.

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Georgia Aquarium

This one reminds me of how I feel when it snows!

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More from Snow Day

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it’s okay to peel grapes

What amazed me about the pigs was how muscular they were. I guess it makes perfect sense, but I always thought of pigs as fat. These pigs were ripped!

I liked their ears!

My favorite shot from the day! This pig got a bath before his judging!

And this cow got a haircut before being judged!

This cow wasn’t happy with his score and went on a rampage!

I don’t know if this sign is for the animals or the owners…

What a fun day!!!

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Livestock show in Perry, GA

Inside the building were all these old canisters labeled Civil Defense Carbohydrate Supplement. Some were rusted out and empty.

Some were still sealed up and not rusted. So I was pretty curious about what a Carbohydrate Supplement was, so I busted one open to take a look.

Turns out, it’s hard candy. I ate one to see what it tasted like and it tasted the same as any other candy I’ve ever eaten.

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Carbohydrate Supplement Circa 1963

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Ernie and Jess

The Steak & Shake franchise is celebrating 75 years in business and in a clever marketing ploy (or desperate?), they got nostalgic and decided the best way to draw attention to the long history of the restaurant was to lower the price of a burger to the original 1934 price of 15 cents.

Well they certainly got my attention. So I grabbed my roommate and we headed to the location on Northside Parkway NW to check it out.

Doors open at 8:00am and we pulled up at 7:45am to find a line of about 60 people.

A group Georgia Tech students even had sleeping bags and lawn chairs and obviously had been camped out for quite a while. Shaun Byun had been waiting since 2:00am. “Yeah it was cold but it was totally worth it. It’s very gratifying.”

As it turns out, the first 75 people through the door got a membership to the VIP club which allows for one free meal per month for a year. When we walk in there is a good vibe floating around the room and everyone is really excited about the occasion.

Most of the tables are already full but we manage to grab a booth and our server Dominique Haynes is prompt to take our orders. Of course it doesn’t take long for us to decide what we want because we are working off a special event menu with the special pricing.

We both order two burgers at 15 cents each but I add cheese to my burgers for an extra 39 cents each. We also get coffee for $1.49 each. Dominique brings our food and he seems genuinely surprised about how excited the customers are. “When I pulled in and saw the long line, I thought maybe I shouldn’t come to work today. It’s going to be a crazy day!”

I could talk about the taste and quality of the food, but to be honest, does it really matter since I’m only paying 15 cents for the burgers? It could be the worst meal of my life and I would still be getting a great deal.

Our combined tab is $4.71, but here’s the thing, even though we are getting burgers at 1934 prices, Dominique and the rest of the staff still have 2009 bills to pay. So this is one of those rare times when the tip is higher than the tab!

As for eating burgers for breakfast… I think I’m okay with another 75 years before I do it again.

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15 Cent Burgers

I was doing some research for possible locations for photoshoots in Atlanta and I read about this old abandoned prison in Southeast Atlanta. So I grabbed a couple of classmates and we had a great time poking our cameras around in these old buildings!

I encourage you to click here to watch a full screen slideshow of the images on my flickr page. They look better big! Or just click here to look at the whole set which is 28 pics.

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Atlanta Prison Farm

I’m loving it so far!

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My New Home- Atlanta

Here he is teaching us something.

I have to shoot everyday as the sun comes and as the sun goes down. Subject isn’t that important but the lighting is very important.

Here is me walking around in Atlanta looking for good light.

Here’s another one of me taken by me classmate Lauren.

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Natural Light Class

This is my good friend Jeremy. He is a very interesting guy with an incredible personal story. I don’t have time to go into it all now, but he is writing a religious book called ‘Rockstar Devotionals: Lifestyles of the Sinners and Saints’. He shaved the cross into his chest as an every day reminder to stick to the plan God has laid out for him.

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Jeremy and his cross

My parents bought a little fixer upper house in the Historic District of Fort Smith last year and have been fixing it up. The plan is for my mom to have her office in the house and my dad will have a little photo studio in the house as well. The picture above shows the fresh paint job, while the picture below shows how much work is left on the inside!

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The Cottage

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A few more from the Big Apple

This was taken from the window of my friend’s apartment. She’s on the 9th floor.

This is pretty much what it feels like to drive in Manhattan. Kinda stressful and fast. But I got the hang of it pretty quick.

This is where the World Trade Center used to be. (kinda motion blurry because I was driving!)

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Street Photography in NYC; literally

This is Allen. He worked at the Maine Media Workshops as the Digital Service Bureau Manager and we shared an office space. We also were roommates at the cabin. He’s a cool cat and possibly the best photo printing ninja I’ve met. He now assists for John Paul Caponigro. He is one of my best friends from my time in Maine and I look forward to following his blossoming career.

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Allen

I was playing with a tilt-shift lens awhile back and shot these two pics of my coworker from The Maine Media Workshops, Dave. It was really tough because I had to use a shutter speed of 1.6 seconds (which is a long time!), camera balanced on my knee, adjusting focus and composition by trial and error.

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Dave at Union Hall

I took this picture in January of 2007 as I traveled around the country with Jeremy Brown as he promoted his just released book “Branding the Brand: Life Inside the Electric Rodeo“. This is part of bigger project I’m working on, but I came across this one and decided to post it!

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Speaking to the Masses

But it’s different when it comes to writing and publishing. It gets much more difficult to write when I know the content will actually be read by people. For the last year and half my public writing (this blog) has definitely been censored and sometimes even cryptic as I dance around the things I really want to say. That’s because I know people read it. That is both a blessing and a curse. I love having an audience. Who wouldn’t? (I wish you all would comment more, but I read blogs a lot and rarely comment, so I know how it is.) But knowing people (certain people) are going to read it has definitely changed what I publish. Writing is therapeutic and I find it very helpful to write when I’m feeling strongly about something. I’ve got about 25 finished posts sitting on my hard drive, that I wrote and at the last second decided not to publish them. But that’s okay. I know I write for myself a lot and since it does help me, they’ve served their purpose. I’m OK with those posts just sitting there forever.

But what I’m really finding odd is that even when it comes to somewhat random or silly stuff, I am now talking myself out of writing because I think about the response from my audience. “Oh they are going to think that’s dumb” or “this is a waste of their time”…

Yes, it’s true, I don’t normally care what most people think, but you who are reading this, are reading this for a reason. It’s either because you like me or you like the things that I post. Either way, I’m concerned about letting you down when it comes to writing and publishing on this blog. If you look back through the archives you will definitely find a noticeable shift in my writing/posting style about the time I left Arkansas. I picked up new audience members around that time and since then I’ve been a little gun shy.

I am with okay with that though. My life and my personality has changed a lot since then and so what if my blog personality changed too. I think it’s fine.

My life is about to have another major change (as if the last 20 months hasn’t had enough change!), and my goal is to post more pictures and write more often to keep up with the things that are going on in my life. One caveat, because this is a very public blog with some professional peers reading, I am going to refrain from writing about my personal life as much and focus more on my professional development. Of course, these two areas are definitely overlapping right now and for the foreseeable future, so we shall see what comes of it.

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Audience

I haven’t shot a show in over 6 months so I feel like I could have done better but below are a few selects from the night. You can check out the entire collection here.

I love the expression on the bass players face in this one!

One of the last songs they performed on this night was a cover song called “Waiting Room” originally by a band called Fugazi, perhaps a legend in the DIY punk rock scene. You can hear the covered version on their myspace page, which I linked above. What’s interesting to me is that it was almost exactly 10 years ago that I saw Fugazi play at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. The date was 11/24/98. I was already into live music of the rock and roll variety, but this show was one of my first big shows and it only reinforced my love of live music and the energy that comes with it. Here I am 10 years later, trotting around with a camera trying to capture the passion and energy that musicians bring to their craft.

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Jimmie’s Chicken Shack concert photos

I spent Thanksgiving 2008 being sick in Maine and didn’t go anywhere or do anything special. I had some generous offers from fabulous friends to hang out with them and their families and I was planning to hang out with my friend Sarah, but I just didn’t feel up to it. I have a cold. My head is super congested and I’m sneezing and coughing on a regular basis. My body aches all over and it hurts just to walk around.

Instead of eating Turkey I had mac and cheese. I put a little tuna in it. Also some salt. Instead of eggnog, I had lots and lots of water. Been chugging the water. I’ve heard staying hydrated is helpful for the immune system.

Of course it is cold in Maine. But I wonder if there is any truth at all to cold weather contributing to catching a cold. Isn’t it germs? Isn’t a cold contagious because of germs? I don’t think people get a cold from the cold. I probably got a cold from the airplane rides on Saturday. An airplane is a great place to trade germs with people. I first started feeling bad on Tuesday night though. Is that a normal time progression?

But I don’t really feel too bad about missing turkey today. Two reasons. First, I’ve got a feeling some leftovers will be brought to my house on Friday and second, I already had a great big thanksgiving meal a few weeks ago. The staff and students still left here at the workshops, decided to have a themed potluck thanksgiving meal before everyone left called “Dranksgiving”. Well, actually there were a couple of themes and you could pick and choose your outfit accordingly. First there was the gangsta option. Then there was the pilgrim/Indian option. And finally there was the ugly sweater option. So inevitably we had pilgrims sportin bling and gangstas wearing ugly sweaters. Here’s a picture of Jeff showing his amazing costume:

photo by Kathleen Guill

So evidently there is a drink from the hood called Drank. This drink was the basis for the party being called Dranksgiving of course. The recipe that was used was cough syrup, dry gin, and sprite. A healthy pitcher was mixed up and most people were drinking it. So about 9:00pm food was finally ready and everyone got busy eating. The food was excellent and the party was rocking until the late hours of 11:30pm.

11:30pm!!!!! Yeah, turns out when they bought the cough syrup they forgot to get the non-drowsy kind. Add the tryptophan from the turkey and it’s the perfect recipe to pass out early. I didn’t have any drank, so I was one the last person to leave the party at 1:00am. We had parties during the summer that didn’t start until 1:00am!

Anyway, So even though I didn’t get turkey today, I’ll think I’ll be ok.

To everyone that I love, I am thankful for your support as I work to achieve my goals. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving 2008

Lou

Michael

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Every day, a little more pale

I needed to post a picture to test something I’ve been working on and this is a picture I already had sitting on flickr, so it got published!

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Darkroom Dave

I grew up in Arkansas which has incredible fall colors, but I must admit, this fall in Maine was really quite beautiful and probably more colorful than most Autumn’s in Arkansas.

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Maine colors

The tilt shift lens is very tricky to use. For the non-photographers out there: basically it gives you the ability to manipulate your plane of focus on an x, y, and z axis instead of just the normal x axis. So you can throw certain areas of the image out of focus. The problem is that the more you manipulate the plane of focus, the more bouncing around inside the lens the light has to do and therefore, the more difficult it is to accurately asses the needed exposure settings. Add to this that this is a very wide angle lens and has a tendency to distort the image at times and you get a situation where it takes a lot of practice to use this lens well.

Anyway, below is a flickr slideshow of some of the more successful images I got that night. If there is no slideshow showing up, try clicking here. Also, 3 of these shots were actually taken with my 50mm prime, but I’ll let you try to figure out which ones!

I’m interested to hear what you (the reader), think about using these slideshows on my blog versus what I usually do, which is just load up all the images one after the other down the column.

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Tilt Shift Picnic

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Random Scenes from Cancun

The Executive Director, Charles Altschul welcomes the crowd to the show!

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Friday Night Shows in the Soundstage

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Fresh Coconut!

I don’t claim to excel at outdoor/nature photography, I’ll leave that to my father and brother. But this lens begs to shoot birds, so here ya go.

I approached very slowly and the duck didn’t seem to mind me getting close. I got about 6 or 7 feet away and got this shot without having to crop!

I’d love to have this lens in my bag all the time! Although it is large and cumbersome, it’s really a good one to have for a variety of shooting environments. DPreview has the following to say:

The Canon 70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM is quite simply an excellent lens, which will reward users with quality images in almost every situation.

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Shooting some wild game!

Last summer while I was working for the Santa Fe Photography Workshops, I had the privilege of working with Dave. We worked closely together for the whole summer and he was a fantastic source of knowledge and humor. Anyway, he stopped into Maine for a quick visit before doing some photo printing and then heading overseas for some documentary photography work.

We hung out, tried to get into some trouble (very nearly succeeding), and shot some pictures in various places in Maine. I haven’t really had a chance to sort through most of the shots from then, but will post them eventually.

I would post a link to his website but he doesn’t have one. Eventually he will get one and I will link to it.

Here is Dave and the waitress that fell in love with him while she served us.

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Dave came to visit

We used 3 canon 580EXII flashes for the lighting with 2 pointed onto the makeshift backdrop and the third attached with a 4ft cord to the camera aimed at the subject.

Each photographer got a copy of the pics and is doing their own post processing. The shots below are my ‘selects’ from the shoot and I wanted to share them with!

Michael

Kalie

Bruce

Carlos

Chris

Lou

Kalie

Bruce

Lou

Me

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Photoshoot with 7 Weekers

Matt and Kevin

Deb

This is a little semi-private area of the bowling lanes and we took over the whole area!

Carlos

Carlos showing off his hours old tattoo

Bruce

Carlos bowled a spare

Lou

Michael

Matt

Good times with good friends!

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More Candlepin Bowling

This particular photo took me a few minutes to get because the theater is so dark I have to shoot at a really slow shutter speed handheld which causes motion blur and camera movement. I stood in that spot clicking away waiting for him to do something interesting with his hands but not have them blurry. This was one of three that turned out, from about 25-30 clicks. Some people in the crowd got a little mad at me for distracting from his talking, but I don’t really care cuz I got this cool shot that will probably get used somewhere for promotion of the Maine Media Workshops.

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Russell Carpenter

(I love this shot, but its slightly out of focus… damn!)

Here he watches a short video about him that he shows during his lecture.

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Jay Maisel visits me in Maine

Most of these all could use a little more careful post processing, but this was right before I came to Maine and since then, I haven’t really had time to work on my photography much.

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Outrage Knockouts!

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Maryam and Kevin

Took this at costume party at my cabin a few nights ago.

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Christmas came early

Camden, ME

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Looking back on Camden

In the harbor of Camden, ME.

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The Green Sailor

In Rockport, Maine last night.

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I don’t count the stars

These were taken a few weeks ago after coming out of an evening presentation at Union Hall in Rockport, Maine. My friend Tre helped out.

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Moonlit Bay

My sister is pregnant. She’s about 32 weeks along in this photo and at the time of posting she is about 37 weeks. Also today is her birthday. So Happy Birthday Sis!

These were taken strolling around on the beach of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

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Pregnant Sister has a birthday

Nice fog on the river when I woke up the other morning.

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Fog on the River

It’s much harder than regular bowling. I went with some friends from the Maine Media Workshops and we had a great time. My camera got passed around a bit so some of these shots weren’t taken by me.

Allen and Tre

Tre (possibly not taken by me, not sure who got this shot)

Evan, doing some karate kid stuff

Me. Not sure who shot this, but it’s a great one!

Ryan. He was getting frustrated by the difficulty of the game.

Jenny’s Tattoo! Isn’t that awesome!?

The Dave.

You will notice that there aren’t many pics of the actual bowling. That’s because bowling is about the fun times, not the final score!

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Candlepin Bowling in Maine

Caught this sunrise as I drove to the airport when I was leaving Salt Lake City. I was running late, so I couldn’t stop, I rolled down the drivers window and held the camera up and took the shot… I do that a lot.

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Salt Lake City Sunrise

This is the Morman Temple in Salt Lake City. These are two HDR shots that aren’t very good. I’m kind of struggling with the HDR workflow, can’t seem to get good results and I’m not sure if it is my technique or if I’m doing something wrong or not doing something I’m supposed to be doing. Oh well, I will keep working on it!

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Temple in Salt Lake City

On Antelope Island in The Great Salt Lake.

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Blowin in the wind

That’s my roommate and officemate Allen doing the printing.

Of course I brought Charlie and we got our picture made!

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Maine Media Workshops Open House

I got to test out a 10-22 wide angle lens while I was in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago. I loved it. These two shots are of a random dog that I met while I was roaming around taking pictures on Antelope Island.

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You looking at me?

There’s a herd of about 500 Bison that live on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Here are a few. The signs said don’t get off the road, so I didn’t. I really wanted to get a lot closer and I wasn’t afraid of the bison, I just didn’t want to get fined by the Park Rangers.

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Some Bison in Utah

I was on Antelope Island, a 45 square mile island in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, eating lunch with my family when a lone pelican came over to see what we were up to. Somebody threw him a chip and pretty soon about 30 more showed up and we threw out more bread and chips for them to eat. I took a bunch of pics.

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Pelicans on Antelope Island

A poker tourney in action!

A girl named Jackie showed me her films on her iphone. Pretty cool!

My buddy Trevor throwing some darts!

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Local Bar Scene

a very old pickup truck on Antelope Island, on the Great Salt Lake, in Utah. HDR

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pick up

This is a lake very near where I live, here in Maine.

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The difference between night and day