A photo blog?

This blog has always been about photography and images that I have created. I have came to a stand still with creatively seeing and shooting things it seems like. Plus it's not like anyone reads this anyhow.
There is a lot that goes into my head when shooting a photograph. They say that an artists hardest critic is him/her self. I know this to be true. I have not had the desire for a long time to get out there and shoot for some reason. However as the season has changed to Spring, I have felt the desire to get out there and shoot more. This will all start for me next week when I take a little vacation.
My job has kept me rather busy. We are toying with new things and concepts that I have been involved with as well as my normal daily tasks. This is not overwhelming me by any means, it is simply making my brain work double duty, logically and creatively. I expect this to be a good year for these things and I hope too not be let down by them. Patients is not something I am good at. I always say that 'Patients are sick people in a hospital and this hospital does not have any more beds.' I am trying to learn how to improve on this, and I hope it pays off like my mom and dad always say it does. Time will tell I suppose.
I have been playing around with video shooting and production. I guess it is eating up more of my time than photography has been, and that might explain the photographic drought. Who knows. So if you care to watch, please check out the videos I have up on YouTube. There is nothing groundbreaking in there at all, just things that are random, silly, or interesting too me. I am not going to be winning an Academy Award anytime soon, that is for sure.
Thanks for reading this. If you are still reading, here is that link to my YouTube channel.

chandelier city

Piles if hot lights.

lamp

For work I have been shooting all of the props that one of our clients has in house. It is pretty boring for the most part, but once in a while something steps out from the rest and screams at me. This hanging lamp is one of those things. I hope you think it is as beautiful as I do.

enjoy.

Here is a mask. (4 of 4)

Here is a mask. (3 of 4)

Here is a mask. (2 of 4)

Here is a mask. (1 of 4)

Driftwood

Objects are one thing I enjoy shooting. Objects stay where you put them and are patient with you when lighting them. People never stay where you put them, and get distracted easily. This is the reason why there are no images of people on my blog. One of my instructors told me that I needed to look at people the same way that I do objects and simply objectify people. I understood what he was saying, but I simply am not capable of doing that at this point.

So I present to you an object, a piece of driftwood. This is something I found in the prop room at work so it is not directly from a beach. I wish it were something that I found but I simply have no luck at finding things on the beach.

Christmas Snow

Canon dslr
Canon 24mm T/S

Eclipse Fail.

Tonight was a cloudy night blocking all possibilities to see the epic lunar eclipse. I was out in the cold hoping for a brief moment to take a few photographs. That never happened.
While waiting I became bored. Looking around me I snapped off five images of some of the things surrounded me.

This pine tree was suffocating the sky as it stood in my way.

This was taken with my dslr at a focal length of 70mm. The shutter speed was 25 seconds with an aperture rating at f/2.8 with an ISO of 400.

enjoy.

St Louis, Missouri Part 2

On the late night adventure in St. Louis that was mentioned in my previous post I took a few photos. Here is one.
Canon Dslr
Sigma Glass @ 10mm
ISO 6400
f/4 @ 0.4 second

St Louis, Missouri

On the way home from Kansas I stopped in St Louis to show my friend Lauren the Arch. She was impressed and wanted to get out and shoot some photographs. Our first try at doing this did not work out as the Park Ranger told us we were not able to go on the grounds. I forgot to mention that it was 3:00 in the morning and about 15 degrees out. The Ranger was kind enough to tell us where we could go. So we drove down to Sullivan BLVD and walked around for a while.
Here is a candid shot of my friend Lauren working her magic.
Exposures were long and ISO was high.
enjoy

I'm going home.

I am going home to Kansas for Thanksgiving next week, and I cannot wait. I have been cleaning off some old hard drives and found an image that screams "Kansas" too me. This image is pretty old. It was shot with my first DSLR about four or five years ago probably with the kit lens. There is nothing fancy here, nothing of a creative masterpiece or anything close to the sort.
Just an image of home.
Enjoy.

Veterans Day

My mom made an awesome blog post about my father.

He is a veteran of the Vietnam war.

You can read it here.

Wasp video

I was sitting at my desk today and this wasp fell from the ceiling. I trapped him with the nearest thing within my reach, a lupe. Somehow this inspired me to make a video about him.
The wasp was not harmed during the making of this video and was set free once the filming had completed. I released him back into the wild outside of the paint shop at Alderman.


Click here to watch the video.

They're coming for you Barbara!

This is the Saint Anthony Cemetery in Chase County, KS. This was taken in late May of this year on a drive through the blooming Flint Hills. The Flint hills are in my opinion one of the must see travel destinations of Kansas.
This image was shot with 'Rosebud' on Ilford SFX IR film.

Indiana bricks

This summer I drove through southern Indiana. It was a nice drive with rolling hills and farms. I stopped at an abandoned farm. These bricks are the grain silo. The silo is pretty much the only thing left standing.
This was shot with 'Rosebud' on whatever black and white film was in there, probably tmax 100.
enjoy.

Welcome to Greensboro, NC. The city that I live in.

Last week my friend Lauren and I walked around downtown Greensboro with our cameras.
This is a photograph I took with my dslr from one of the parking garages. Edited in post to look like a black and white image and then solarized. Some lighting magic was used during the exposure as well.
Enjoy.

Straight down the Khyber part 2

Here is another straight down image of a thistle that I shot in western Kansas.
Shot with my Canon dslr, Sigma 50mm lens.

Straight down the Khyber

Sometimes I like looking straight down onto things. This probably started in my subconscious when I first saw the movie called Candyman. There are a lot of camera views looking directly down on a city in that movie and it caught my attention. It is a pretty common thing in movies now, but that is the first one that I can remember sticking out in my memory.
Anyhow back to the point... This is a plant in the Nevada desert.
Shot with 'Rosebud' on Ilford SFX 200.

any colour you like (so long as it's yellow)

Life is everywhere, even in Death Valley.

I was reviewing my blog posts and it seems color is lacking from most of my images, so here is some color!

This image was taken with my Canon DSLR in April of this year.

I really miss my friends out west.

desolate landscape

Today several of my friends from college drove across my home state of Kansas on their journey back to North Carolina. They of course drove I-70 across the whole state. I have been speaking with one of them via text messages and they stopped in Victoria at the Cathedral of the Plains at my suggestion. I am not sure where else they stopped or if they even stopped anywhere else. I wish they could have stopped to visit my friend Renee in Concordia but it didn't work out.
Driving the interstate through Kansas doesn't allow you to see the good parts. I guess that is where the idea for this blog post comes from. I have been to a lot of the good places in Kansas and want to share them.
The following image was taken in Rooks County Kansas near Sugar Loaf mound, and about three miles from where my dad grew up. One of his friends lived on the homestead that this barn was apart of when they were younger.
I shot it with 'Rosebud', my Mamiya 645 Medium Format camera on Kodak chrome. Edited in post to add more feeling of desolation to the image.

Milo

Here is a milo field in the Flint Hills in east central KS. I shot this back in May with my Mamiya 645 with Illford SFX 200 IR film.

Blueridge Parkway

Canon AE-1
35mm film
ISO 25