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Add comment | February 6th, 2010
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Happy New Year!!!
Just got back from my trip to the far east. I got a lot of negatives I still have to scan, but I should have them up soon. Meanwhile I wanted to post some pics of the last few days of 2009.
明けましておめでとう！今年もよろしく！
Add comment | January 17th, 2010
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Famous #11
Got a little love from this zine called Famous Magazine out from Capricious publishing. Its issue #11 the “Desert and Plants” issue. You can pick one up from Tsunami Addiction if you fancy.
1 comment | December 20th, 2009
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It never rains in LA
Rain in LA is a bigger deal than snow on the eastcoast. Roofs start to leak, traffic slows down, and expensive houses start rolling off of cliffs. It may be hard to believe, but rain is a pretty big deal in this desert city. We have about 350 days of cloudless sunny skies, about 13 days of overcast, and like 2 days of rain. Its like we get 2 weeks of fall, winter, and spring, and the rest is just summer.
It rained here a few days ago, so I took this rare opportunity to go on a rainy day drive and shoot some pictures. I had to work that afternoon so I left pretty early. With the sound of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on the radio combined with the pitter patter of rain on my canvas convertible top, I headed into the mountains. It was the best thing I did out here in a while.
Add comment | December 10th, 2009
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Leonids
The Leonid meteor showers took place about a week ago. I had never seen a meteor shower before, so I googled it to find a picture to see what it looked like. What I saw was quite amazing. A night sky full of dots and rays of light showering from the sky. The second I saw this image I knew I had to see this natural phenomenon.
So me and my friend Mark drove about an hour and a half out into the high desert to escape the glow of the city where the meteors would be more prominent. We were pretty “gung ho” about this, two guys leaving in the middle of the night on a weekday driving into the middle of nowhere to see some shooting stars.
We finally found a good spot and lied on the ground staring at the sky waiting for the show to happen. We sat there for a while and saw hardly anything. Maybe four meteors each all night. Although the sight was beautiful it was nothing like what I was expecting from looking at the photograph. I was expecting beam after beam, rays shooting like we were in a middle of a war. We tried to remain optimistic as long as we could, but the cold got to us and finally we said that the eight total we saw between the two of us was enough.
Later on I had to keep wondering why what I saw was so different from the image that had excited me so much. I figured it out. It was a long exposure. The photo I had seen was an accumulation of all the meteors that had been visible throughout the night. It was an image of a few hours worth of meteors, and if I counted the rays on the image, there weren’t that many more than eight. So we saw exactly what we were supposed to. I was a photographer taken by photography, fooled…
Another example of photography walking the fine line between truth and fiction. It perceives the world differently from human perception, due to its unique relationship to time. It converts the four dimensional universe into two dimensional images, whereas we convert it into one called a memory. So I guess it would be unfair to call the image deceiving, because it is just a different perception from our perception. As a matter of fact the photograph may be a more accurate depiction of the truth due to its utilization of dimensions in this universe than we can not preserve as memories.
Add comment | November 28th, 2009
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63 Galaxie
I shot for the first time in the studio for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when the last time was.
If you’ve been following my work at all, you’ll know that this type of stuff is not really my forte, but it felt really good to shoot. Using all this gear, and trying a lot of new things. Its been a while since I’ve gotten so physical with photography. It was a nice work out, and was great to just to feel challenged again, to not really know how it was going to come out was a bit scary but, an exciting feeling as well.
Dave just got his car back from a long session in the operation room. The opportunity was there so I jumped on it. Dave was super stoked on the photo sesh. He even asked me if he had to pay me. No Dave, it’s a hook up.
It was nice to have someone appreciate the work I was putting in though. Believe it or not, a lot of people think this stuff is really easy and don’t express much gratitude for what your doing.
Add comment | November 10th, 2009
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