Santosha Yoga, Asheboro, NC

Emily Miller and I worked on a project together for our multimedia class. Here is the end result.

Enjoy.

Black and White is awesome

When I was back home in Kansas for Thanksgiving I took some sunset images. There is one further back on this blog if you dig deep enough. Anyhow, I have been enjoying black and white photos again and thought i would revisit some of these. Here is an image I created while printing some other images.

enjoy.

Here is a video I made for my brother. It is of "the shortcut" he taught me years ago.
Enjoy.

Sunday evening I assisted Kelly Hawkins in a photo shoot. Here is a video of her and I getting everything set up. The time on it has been increased by 310%.
Enjoy the show.

Disappearer live at The Orange Peel

No flashes were allowed which is what I prefer to use when shooting bands. So this is not that great in my opinion.
enjoy.

Quaker Haven Road.

Here is another video for you.

1957 Imperial (reprise)

So I was showing dad some nerdy camera stuff and how much the aperture settings can change the final image. He was telling me that he could not remember what this part was for or where it even went on the car. I am thinking this might be a fuel line filter but I do not know anything about cars.

Kansas Road

1957 Chrystler Imperial

My dad has been rebuilding this car for a little over ten years now. It was in a pasture in north central Kansas for a few decades before he bought it to rebuild. Needless to say, it has been quite the project. Paint is being done now and this car sure is going to be pretty once it is finished. A lot of the body panels are off still so photographing the car is hard to do at this point simply because it is not a car, it is a lot of car parts...
So I found some of the cars sexy curves and wanted to show them to you. I hope you enjoy them.

Kansas Sunset

My brothers, Travis and Chris and I took a little road trip to 'the end of the road' of all places while I was home for Thanksgiving Break. We were there at sunset and I ran off into a wheat field to get some photos while they threw rocks into the river.
The end of the road is a real place. The road just stops at the river. If you did not know it was there you would take your car for a little swim.
Here is the sunset.
enjoy.

I am flying right now using cosmic wifi or something.

Light Painting.

I tried some light painting. I tried to keep it simple and organic looking. I don't know. Some old guy came up and started talking about how he tried to keep thing the old way by shooting double exposures on film instead of using photoshop. I thought to my self, 'if you only know half of the assignments I printed in the darkroom'. It was funny, he thought I was some digital kid who didn't know anything about traditional photography.
It was funny. I guess you had to be there...

Here is another sad attempt at making an album cover for a mixtape.

When I was in Pennsylvania last month I took a series of photos with my point and shoot so I could make a panoramic out of them. Here is that panoramic.

Mom and Dad

My mom and dad have been here all week visiting from Kansas. They are staying at some RV park on Lake Norman. My boss, Brian Gomsak, gave me an assignment to take their portraits while they are here. Needless to say with the tropical weather system that moved through here this week I was thinking I would have to shoot these indoors. However on my way to the shoot today the weather cleared out and made for some very nice light!
These were shot in the shade cast by their RV using my Alien Bee B800. Many of you know that shooting people is not my cup of tea and that I struggle with it. However today I have to say that everything fell into place. Of course I love the photos because they are of my parents, but I actually think they are good! Most of you also know that I am never satisfied with my own work, so this is a great accomplishment for me.
Mom and Dad were talking about the last time they had their photo taken and trying to figure out when it was. They decided it was one I took of them way back when I was in high school for their wedding anniversary. I remember shooting that in the basement of their house with my Canon AE1 and a regular lamp and aluminum foil as a reflector.

Anyhow, here they are. I hope you enjoy them. I like the Black and White one the best.

I love making mixtapes. I always try so hard to make a "real" album cover.

The story of the Weddington Estate.

This home has been deemed as being "unsafe" by the powers that be.



Go ahead and come on inside and take a look around.



We were doing a little remodeling a while back and we never got around to finishing, watch your step!



Perhaps we should start a fire to warm up the place.



If I had known you were stopping by I would have cleaned up, sorry about the mess.



Here is where I have been sleeping.



Part of the remodel we were doing was the addition of a wing on the west end of the estate.



We never got around to putting the handrail back onto the stairs.



Please be extra careful as you go up the stairs!



As you might have guessed, the banister has been removed as well.



So please do not fall down, it is a long drop!



The lawn needs to be mowed as well. Watch your step out there on your way out!



Thanks for stopping by, you are welcome to come back at anytime!


Urban Exploring has always been something that interests me.
There are so many empty buildings that have stories to tell.

Earlier this week I was in PA in the middle of nowhere. I decided to take advantage of this and shoot some stars. This image is a 35 minute exposure taken with my DSLR at 10:30 at night.

Panoramic Assignment

Here is a panoramic composite of over 26 images all stitched together.

Promo 4

I wanted to shoot this piece of pottery for my fourth promo. Pottery by its self looked kind of odd so I put some Sushi from the grocery on it. The image is not for the food, its for the pottery.

Enjoy!

Self Promo 3

I had a request from Justin Mower to see the final shot from my previous post.

Self Promo 3 Lighting Set-Up

Here is the lighting set up for my next self-promo shot. This is in black and white, but the final image will be in color.

Rick Smith Assignment

Today Rick Smith visited us at school and gave us an assignment at 10:45 that was due at 3:00pm.
The challenge here was not the time but the specifics and lack thereof. We had to incorporate three elements, paper, glass, and metal and have an image that projects the strength, longevity, confidence, security of a company that is celebrating its 125th year of business. The image should be dynamic, memorable, thought provoking, original, and creative.
Here is what I came up with.

Panoramic revisit

For one of our assignments right now we are taking a series of photos that will be stitched together to for a panoramic image. I started toying with this idea back in 2004 when I lived in Kansas. With all of the wide open space out there options were limitless. I thought I would share an old panoramic. This image was made of six vertical images. The camera I was using at the time was a Nikon 990.