Wandering the Streets

    I did some wandering around downtown with my camera yesterday before and after class. I need to do this more often. It's almost therapeutic. There's no pressure. No guidelines. Nothing. Just you, the camera, and the wonderful world we live in.

    Here's an image from the most recent shoot I did last Sunday. Thanks to Brittany Wilhelm for shopping for the clothes and being in the photograph and Max Martin for providing his cat and assisting the shoot. Another huge thanks to the generous people at Restwell Motel in Farmington for allowing us to take over a room and completely rearrange it. I greatly appreciate the help everyone!

Design Layout

  

House of 1817: The Movie

    Well ladies and gentlemen, snowboarding season is just around the corner! I can't wait. I feel like posting a snowboard flick that has been getting me excited for the season. I'm a little late. It's already been up online for a few days now, but here it is anyway. House of 1817: The Movie. Enjoy.

    Sidney and Sheldon being awesome, of course...

120 Film

    I was just browsing through some of my older photographs and decided to post a couple photos I made with a Hasselblad medium format camera back in my large format class, which seems like forever ago now. Strange how time flies. Anyway, these photos are from an abandoned WWII ammunition plant in Rosemount, formerly known as the Gopher Ordnance Plant. The history is actually quite interesting. If you have some time to spare, look it up on Google.

Oh, that's just Steve watering his garden.

    I had to do a nude portrait for my location class. I knew I wanted to do something bizarre, so I figured why not photograph my nudist neighbor watering the garden with his chickens scrounging around? As I approached his backyard the morning of the shoot, I was quite surprised with the effort to block off as much of the neighbors vision as possible. There was a full-size tent set up, equipped with tarps blocking all 3 sides, except the side I was to shoot from. We also had a blanket covering an opening in the bushes at camera right. It was pretty chaotic trying to work with the chickens. Of course, they weren't very cooperative. As a result, I had to mask in 5 or 6 photographs in Photoshop in order to get everything how I wanted in the frame. Thanks to Steve, Jonathan, and Kristina for all their effort. A special thanks to Jonathan and Kristina for chasing the chickens around the whole time... and of course, Steve, for being in the photograph.

    Sadly, this was the roosters' last photograph... it was their time to be made into dinner. WARNING: Do not look at the next couple images if you are a vegetarian.