Shooting John Keatley

I was recently hired to shoot a portrait of Photographer John Keatley for City Arts Magazine. I was honestly more stressed at first for this shoot than any hip band or pretty girl haha Shooting someone who has been hired to shoot Annie Liebowitz was a little nerve racking.

I had a few ideas for doing a Keatley "Esque" studio shot but i'm glad I decided on something more up my alley instead. I'm extremely happy with the results. John was a really rad dude. and his work speaks for himself. Props to him for bringing it from Seattle. And getting paidddd =P As I'm sure he did for the new cover of Sarah Palins Book:

Popular Noise Foscil Release

My buddy Byron over at The Journal of Popular Noise has done it again. I first worked with Byron on Truckasaurus's Relase then again on The Flexions-Leasure Time LP

His new layout for Foscil-Residential looks gorgeous. Order This limited letter pressed beauty today. Its so refreshing to see such thought and design going into an analog musical release.

Whats so Great about Grey?

Saw this on Jay's Blog.. Enjoyed it for both the obvious Grey graffiti cover-up paint reason..and also.. on these days when i get really tired of the dark/gray seattle days. I need a quick 2 day California Re-Vamping of my vitamin D

Look at a book

I had seen these images online.. but seeing them in the actual MoonMilk book was AMAZING.. Ryan McGinley has done it again

Photos of the day

Few random shots for today..
Got an old roll back from September's PDX trip for MFNW. I love my Hasselblad!

Photo Group Week 2

This week our photo group assignments were to each write a one sentence storyline and add them to a pile. We each picked randomly out of the pile. My storyline was "He knows he's being followed..."

I wanted to put a twist on the most likely way of interpreting it. Instead of doing a stalker/cinemtatic/following idea I used followed how its more commonly heard these days. Twitter. I documented a day in the life of "being followed" from my friend Phil Reed. who Tweets for himself as well as the more popular Poor Life Choices

Our Photo Group will be posting all entries and info on our new blog..Add it to your blog list and keep track of some great photos from some cool peeps (should be up sooon!)

Keepitlight Blog

Built to Spill!!

Dream come true yesterday shooting a band I've loved so much and whose music has been there for me over the years. Ended up being really great dudes as well. These two portraits were taken at a really high iso due to almost o light and time. but I really dig the rough, grainy feel though. reminds me of old built to spill tunes