Its been a while... VMR Studio

Have'nt posted in a while. So, I wanted to get these pics up. My brother is trying to complete another album and I tagged along to get some pics.
I'm pretty excited about a few of them, I think I'm finding a post process nitche. They look cross processed without having to loose a lot of the detail which you typically do when cross processing film. We'll see. Im far too critical of my own work.  I miss my days of classroom critique.
For some reason it is incredibly difficult for me to shoot him. He's always far too aware of my presence with the camera. I need to come up with a different trick to make him feel comfortable and less focused on 'oh shit!, he's taking my picture let me try to look kool'.

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How to Photograph sound

To whom it may concern:Through many hours of research and seconds spent racking my brain and testing hypotheses, I had finally come to a conclusion.
I discovered that I was actually able to photograph... well, sound.
I know, I know, you say it can't be done. But, through my research I have discovered that indeed it can be done.
And, Im going to tell you how...

Step 1- Get film camera and film.
Step 2- Load film into camera.
Step 3- Point camera at sound.
Step 4- Pull camera away from sound and check to make sure lens cap is in place.
Step 5- Point camera back at sound (dont bother looking through the viewfinder, you can't see sound) and click shutter.
Step 6- This one is tricky!!! Get film developed (negatives only of course).
Step 7- Put film on scanner and scan.

And Sha-BAM!!! You got a picture of sound! Congratulations!!!

This is what sound should look like. If it doesn't look like this repeat steps 3-7.

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An ongoing project

I have been working on a project tentatively titled 'Neighborhoods'. These are actually some of the first images I made at night for this project.
I have been searching for grants to help me to fund a gallery showing. I came across the Aaron Siskind grant which is due towards the end of April and I think I want to submit this project.
Its going to take a lot of work... and I've always been too lazy to actually put the effort in. But, now is the time...
Anyway, I think this is the direction I want to head with it.

Not sure these will be included in the series, but I did capture at our local park the other night when we had that really dense fog.
Sam and I went there we had a good time.

On another note, I want to create an etsy store to begin selling prints. I would appreciate any pointers anyone may have.

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Textures

Little bit o' texture. Little bit o' fun.
I just thought these images worked together really well. Let me know what you think.

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BAC Street Journal Submissions

I just finished submitting my selection of black and white images for the Beverly Art Center Street Journal.
It's pretty exciting to be able to reconnect with the Beverly Art Center since it was there that I took my first b/w darkroom printing class in 1994. It was a night class and I remember feeling pretty awkward because everyone else in the class was probably 25+ years older than me.
I shot with my mothers Olympus automatic camera (the kind with that real beautiful shutter sound that film cameras make) which she just found and gave back to me.







This image was the sixth that didn't get submitted because I originally thought it was 6 images max and found out that it was only 5.

On this day last year... 2/20/09

Late...

Graces birthday party last year. Selected favorites.


Waiting patiently for cake...








Ah, Jack loves his beer bottles. If you're not careful he'll steal it right out from under you.


Our dog sam in a winter stocking hat.

On this day last year... 2/11/09

I messed up again. These should have been put up yesterday. Wah wah.

This is a farmhouse that I pass everyday. Sometimes it looks like there are people working on it, then it has a bunch of busted windows. Windows get fixed, then get busted again. After many years of seeing these changes to the house and noticing that the windows were broke, I figured that I could slip in and out unnoticed.

I was too scared to go into the basement. It was pitch black down there.