KeepItLight Week6

The group is back in action after a few weeks of holiday hiatus. This week's Keep It Light assignment was to take us all out of our portrait realms. I love shooting other things besides people but its obvious almost all of us in the group favor portraits. I decided to take a photo walk and instantly was drawn to this 1960's Comet.

POTD & NPR

Here is a photo for today on this lovely ending winter days of 2009. My lovely Katie sporting my Christmas gift to her haha her new haircut and color =)

Also a link to my buddys The Maldives featured on NPR Today with my photo. Thanks to Abbey and Ben for letting me know about this today. Nice seeing more of a candid preparation shot of them all posted instead of our Final Shot that was used on their album

Christmas Time

Merry Christmas and all that good stuff!
Mine was nice..quiet, relaxing, nice to catch up with my brother who was in from LA and eating lots of good home cooked food.

Here is a picture of my funniest gift and nice crisp winter day portrait of Michael Lerner Of Telekenesis.

The Morrison Holiday Portraits

I volunteered to help Katie's Mom with a special Xmas gift for the residents of The Morrison. They offer apartments for around 200 chronically home-less people suffering to overcome addiction, mental disease and financial troubles keeping them on the streets. These people were so excited to have their portraits taken for Xmas gifts to their friends/family.

That first photo is Skip. Although he normally is extremely quiet and doesn't talk much with other residents/volunteers he was soo excited to talk shop about photography. He shot sports for a living years ago. We talked about lens's, films, strobes and everything else. He didnt want a Christmas tree portrait but offered to let me snap a few against this wall.

It felt great knowing how grateful these people were for such a simple Christmas photo. Looking forward to spending more time @ The Morrison and doing more photo projects with the residents.

Thanks to Nas for helping out and assisting all day!
A few of my favorites from the afternoon:

SX70

Polaroid SX-70 Promotional Film from Ekim on Vimeo.

Stole this video from my buddy Strath's blog but its definitely a required viewing for any polaroid fan. Made by non other than Charles & Ray Eames.

Photo & Poster

Got some 35mm film back with a bunch of random stuff on it from my Nikon FM.. Forgot how amazing this bathroom was in color. The black and whites fit the whole concept much better but this image is close to my heart as well.

Also-Wanted to post a lovely poster from my friend Naomi She is a 2nd quarter Graphic Design student at Seattle Central and has really been doing some great work, especially for so early in her program. This Lou Dorfsman poster captures the essence of the legendary CBS designers style and look while also implementing a touch of her own. Looking forward to seeing her progress and post more work.

Ghosts of Shopping Past (Inspiration)

I am still fascinated with shooting abandoned things of all types. This series from Brian Ulrich is top notch. I felt it was fitting for this month of "Necessary Shopping". These were a couple of my favorites. check the article HERE for more