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Announcing 365^2 (365 Squared)

2010-01-13T07:20:12Z

I haven't posted anything in quite a while so it's fitting that this one is announcing a new project.

Taking a photo a day is an ambitious project for me to say the least. Keeping creative, sharpening my skills, and working towards a defined goal all seem good reasons to start such a project. I'm using my iPhone to make the taking and uploading as painless as possible. Plus using a camera like the iPhone has it's own challenges as well as niceities. The format being square almost makes for a level playing field photographically speaking. The ShakeItPhoto app adds a bit of style as well so the series will look uniform and stylistically similar. I'm looking forward to this project and after having completed a little over a month of it already I feel confident that I can take it to it's completion.

The project can be viewed on my website at or on Flickr. I'm looking forward to a full years worth of images and perhaps a possible book at the end in December.

Lapsed Posting…But a New Series!

2008-10-02T23:27:00Z

Well its been a few weeks since my last post but I've come out of the gate with a new series. I call it Dust. It's a series started after a trip to my wife's grand parents home in Prescott, Arizona. We took a side trip one day to a restored ghost town nearby called Jerome. The place had quite a checkered past, full of old west shootouts, claim jumping and gold prospecting, but has now settled into a charming hippie town with, bikers, booze and boutiques. In town there's an old mine “museum”, which is something of a junk yard, that is in a state of permanent decay. It's filled with old cars, farm and mining equipment and dusty shacks with perhaps some nefarious histories. The place was captured in time and a perfect subject for me to explore the process of industrial desiccation. Warm tones, a ruddy palette and a subject steeped in history and dust.

School Room Tableaux

2008-09-16T06:07:53Z

This one was photographed at the same time as Dunce Cap in the same room. With this photo, the relics of the old west really stand out and give it a feeling of dust and grime. Suspended decay in the school room.

Boar’s Head

2008-09-15T06:07:16Z

The site of a taxidermy animal is always a bit unnerving. Seeing it in this tool shed in an old ghost town in Arizona is more so. I did like the light in the room. It cast a heavenly glow on the head. I like to think of this image as a sort of purgatory for the earthly remains of a once living beast.

Dunce Cap

2008-09-12T06:38:41Z

A junk yard museum in an old ghost town in Arizona provided me this photo. It was taken in a classroom that was in a state of permanent decay, a classroom in the days of gold mining and claim staking.

Mountain Near Our Hotel

2008-09-10T06:55:01Z

Early morning while waiting outside our hotel in the Anza Borrego desert, the clouds appeared over a nearby mountain. The rich tone of the sky contrasted nicely with the puffy clouds.

Yellow Gingko with Stone

2008-09-09T06:50:13Z

Sometimes you are in the mood for pure color.

Twin Spires in Monotone

2008-09-08T06:11:49Z

This is a late night experiment in bringing out the darker side of a particulary ominous scene on my recent Mt. Whitney hike. It reminded me of sinister landscape, vaguely reminiscent of the land of Mordor in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".

The Mt. Whitney Hike

2008-09-05T16:38:05Z

This was one of my most memorable accomplishments. Hiking the largest mountain in the lower 48. I've created a gallery of my photographic interpretation of this amazing peak.

If you'd like to see the photo documentary of the entire trip I've posted it on Flickr.

Study for a Double Arch

2008-08-29T06:12:52Z

This is actually a study in simple photographic formalism. It's all texture, tone, composition and light. I loved how it all came together in one picture. It was taken in the city of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, while walking down a narrow corridor. I loved the double arches and the shadows they threw on the wall. Seeing it in black and white accentuated the texture in such a way that would not have been as apparent had it been in color.

Hillside Mountainside Further

2008-08-28T07:05:31Z

As we came over the ridge a great expanse of distance opened up. Mountains receding in the distance for miles. A cloud bank listlessly drifting at the edge of the horizon. The air was warm with anticipation. The summit could be very near or we could have miles still to go. Trees pointed the way to the deep valley below.

Portrait of Avery as a Young Child

2008-08-26T07:43:16Z

I shot this portrait of my young niece in the style of the WPA (Works Progress Adminstration) of the 1920's. She is a very beautiful girl with these piercing blue eyes that I hoped to capture as a monochrome image. Sometimes a portrait says more about the photographer then the subject, and I think in this case it's true, as I was intending to depict a child of a different era. She is very quiet, very content and inquisitive, as I suppose all children usually are at this age.

Tarantula Spotted

2008-08-25T18:45:38Z

This was kind of unexpected. A tarantula on the trail while I was hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Tyler Stands Waiting Underneath the Arch of a Passageway

2008-08-23T07:11:57Z

We were walking around the city of Utrecht late in the afternoon. The sun was at an angle, shining through the bottom half of the archway near the old church in the center of town. I asked Tyler to stand in the archway as the lighting was spectacular and dramatic. He struck a pose or rather looked down the passageway and I snapped the photo. I love the details in the upper half of the photo. Making a photo monochrome really helps to bring out the texture. I sent the photo to Tyler and he loved it. It captured his wanderlust at the beginning of his journey around Europe.