BEST OF 2011
Ive been in Japan for the past few weeks so the annual “Best Of” post has been postponed until now. 2011 seemed to come and go in a breeze. Check out my brief year-end wrap up and 100 of my favorite images made in the year 2011 after the jump.
THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
After a few hectic weeks of non-stop shooting and editing in early August, I decided to drop everything and take a VERY spontaneous trip across The American Southwest. Loaded with a digital SLR, one of my GoPro HD cameras, my trusty Polaroid Spectra, and a few other film cameras, I set out on a brief, but exciting, Kerouacian adventure. Check out the story and images after the jump!
BEST OF 2010
2010 was a crazy year filled with lots of surprises. If you were to ask me a year ago, where I would be in a year, I most likely wouldn’t be anywhere near the reality of it all. Check out my annual, end-of-year, post filled with my favorite images made throughout 2010 here.
FEATURED IN PDN MAGAZINE
Back in October, I was browsing through my issue of PDN (Photo District News) magazine and came across an ad that was promoting one of their contests. I have never really paid much attention to contests, the few that I have entered in the past have been in the photojournalism realm and most of the [...]
FEATURED IN PHOTOSHOP USER MAGAZINE
About a month and a half ago I got an email from Mike Mackenzie, Associate Publisher of Photoshop User and Layers magazines, letting me know that they wanted me to be featured in Photoshop User magazine. I was thrilled to be featured in a magazine that I receive and read every month. Check out the story and see PDF images of the entire magazine feature spread here.
TO AMSTERDAM AND BEYOND!
In October of 2010 I traveled to The Netherlands and Western Germany on assignment. The team was busy, but we did have a bit of time to explore. We visited Amsterdam, Rotterdam and several Western German towns. Read about the adventure and see the photos here.
PRINTS FOR SALE!
In June of 2010 I participated in a group gallery show called “Convergences” featuring an amazing group of local Houston illustrators, painters and street artists. I assembled a grid of 4 square prints to display which conveyed my theme of “abstract portraits”. These 4, 20″x20″ prints are now being sold to help fund an exciting upcoming project.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 3 OF 4: LUBITEL
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the third in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lubitel twin lens medium format camera.
RECENT TRAVEL PHOTOS 1 OF 4: OKTOMAT
The first few weeks of July 2010 were spent visiting family in Chicago and Akron, Ohio. My grandmother turned 80 and members of our family from all parts of the globe congregated in Ohio to surprise her for her birthday. Even though the travel was personal and not business, I still took a ton of photos. This post is the first in a series of 4 dedicated to the images made during the trip. Here you will see photos taken with my Lomo Octomat 35mm camera.
SEEING SQUARES
For Libby’s birthday I got her a vintage Lubitel twin lens camera. She has always loved twin lens units so since the ones in our current collection had completed the transition from functioning camera to sitting on the shelf with the rest of the old-timers, I decided to get a new one. I went with [...]
ADRIENNE & ELIZABETH
A few weeks ago my friend Adrienne assisted me on an editorial portrait shoot for The Houston Chronicle. It was a rather overcast and chilly day, but she was a trooper and patiently stood in as I got my lighting all set prior to the subject’s arrival. Of the few frames of Adrienne that I [...]
RANDOM ABSTRACTIONS
The other day I decided to play around with a few photo tools I rarely get the chance to utilize. I toyed with photographing a few things in the office and kitchen before finding inspiration and making some rather abstract imagery. The photo above is one I particularly liked from the set. There is a [...]
STREET ART RIO
After spending a good bit of time in Brasil, Ive noticed that in most cities, namely Rio de Janeiro, street art, whether it be graffiti, wheat pasting, stenciling or another form is thought of and subsequently dealt with a lot differently than it is here in Houston. Of course this differential may be a lot [...]
B&O AND THE YARDS
My off days this week were not especially entertaining. I was originally planning on catching a game at Camden Yards here in Baltimore (since I’m only living a few blocks away) on Tuesday, but the weather was bad so I ended up going yesterday. I headed out early enough to coincidentally catch co-worker Justin Condor [...]
THE BACKYARD
These images are from a small group of photos i took this afternoon at my aunt’s house in Ohio. All of them shot with a 5D and a 50mm 2.5 macro lens. Nothing was touched or moved, I simply explored my surroundings in search of interesting patterns, colors, and shapes. This little mini photo essay [...]
A FEW ODDS AND ENDS
Not much going on tonite so I decided to mess around with a few new items. First off, I have been intrigued by the Lensbaby products for some time and since the paper has a few of the newest generation model 3G’s, I thought I’d test one out. Since the paper uses Nikon cameras exclusively I was forced [...]
