Thursday, Adam offered his front yard to the “goofy shoot”, last minute, not knowing much about it. We started the shoot not sure if it would be a strong regret physically. The concern was forgot about as everybody relaxed and goofed around on the little trampoline, landing on the old mattress. Interesting action shots were the target.  

Adam

Brooke

Blake

Gary

Akil

Clint

Joe

One of adam’s pics

Some of Gary’s pics he sent me.

A handful of photographers met up at Catalina’s (a local awesome coffee shop) to enjoy some coffee before getting started with the camera. Not much was planned for the day, but that was the major plus. We only intended to lounge around and take random shots while strolling in interesting area (lots of photo ops), and enjoy the lack of pressure. Many liked staying behind the camera.

One of Brooke Schwab’s 

I make a nasty facial expression when I take a pic. I’m sorry. (from  Clint’s) 

We walked by a nice furniture store.

The past couple of weekends, the Foundry had me come into the morning service and take some pictures of their church. They have two campuses, one is their church they were blessed with, the second one is at a local theatre where they are in the process of expanding. Both locations are beautiful.

I like black and white.

This is the main chuch.

My good friend Ryan Terry swung by my place Tuesday. We goofed with our cameras and had fun on the trampoline.

This how I created the about page image. Didn’t look as cool this time.


Here’s a couple of random shots. Ryan caught a cute shot of my puppies playing around. I’m just kidding about the cuteness, they look viscous.

Me playing with the macro lens.

ryan shot this from under the trampoline. It looks like I’m falling off a building.

My brother recently ask me to come over and shoot a couple of random photos of flowers and what-not for decoration of the house.  We shot a bunch of those flower shots but these pics were much more fascinating to me. After we had shot several dozen of those flowers, we started to play the macro lens.  The first shot is my brother’s eye and the second one is mine.  It was a pain to focus so stinking close.   The iris is pretty funky close up.   

I just this lens as a present to myself for my birthday, which is this Saturday the 26th.  It gives an insanely wide angle for some pretty unique shots.I was about 8 inches away from Sophie’s face in these shots. I do have another dog but she’s kinda camera shy. This image was shot at f/2.8, 1/20s @ 8000 ISO.  That’s right, 8000 ISO!! The next image shows the actual pixels.   This is, if not better than, what the image would look like on the D200 (my old camera) at 800 ISO.

Me and good friend of mine, Chris Aram, went and shot a few yesterday.   There is a little farm not too far from my house that I’ve always wanted to stop by and shoot around.  They have a bunch of old stuff just sitting around rusting, which make for some interesting subjects.  I’m glad we got to shoot some.  We weren’t able shoot all that we wanted because of the rain that was predicted kicked in when we stopped for lunch.       

Chris, Adam, Tom and I went to the Zoo this past weekend.  We were hoping to get some interesting images of some exotic animals.  I wish I could say I just back from Africa this past weekend but the Zoo is a little more convenient.     
     Not too exotic, but still very pretty. 

It’s nice to go goof off with the camera every now and then.  This past weekend I was able to go play around with the macro lens with Chris Aram, Adam Nyholt and Clint.  We met up at Adam’s place downtown.  Just walking around the block there gave a wide variety different texture shots.     One of Adam’s dogs(miniature pincher)         

Last week I was viewing another photographers work and was impressed with his polaroid images. This gave me the idea to put together my own little polaroid. I bought a cheep Holga medium format camera, which are $35, I already had the polaroid back that was collecting dust next to the other vintage cameras. With a little epoxy and duct tape, I got myself a pretty sweet camera. It’s something to play with and create some pretty artisic images.