hiking with mary

two hundred two through two hundred eight

gallery night

one hundred ninety three through two hundred one

I had the pleasure of meeting Ken Kornacki and Moxie of Moxie Loves MKE. I was a nervous wreck, coaching myself that they were normal people, too. I usually start smiling way too much and rambling a lot in these types of situations. A similar thing happened when I met Junot Diaz at a book signing. Any author, actually. At the Gallery Night, though, Ken brought up something very interesting about shooting something in a moment that has significance to you. You may be visiting a place in which millions have been before you, but capturing one particular moment makes it yours. Period. It has changed the way I look at photography.

morning of record store day

eighty-one & eighty-two

engagement: rob & morgan

forty five through fifty three

experimental phase

taken October 2008; Nikon D40

I transferred a bunch of old photos from my PC to my MAC. With it came a lot of experiments I did while on a cross-country road trip in 2008, such as the photograph above. I've been so focused on my 365 and am almost done with it, but now I'm starting to experiment outside of things I normally do. Writing with light? Oh, there will be more of that. I'm getting friends to do shoots with me in exchange for food and/or booze. I also found a small mirror that I'd like to find ways to include in shoots in a surreal way. My photography teacher in high school would get frustrated that I had pages in my research notebook on Magritte and Dali. "They don't relate to what you're doing!" Well, it may have taken me six years, but I'm going to use their influence to have fun experimenting with my photograph. They take surrealism to the next level with painting, I'm going to paint with light.

three hundred seventeen through three hundred nineteen

roll of film one

early dinner

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traveling camera

The point of the 365 is to get me to use my DSLR more often, but today I cheated. Yes, I cheated. Since I was running errands, I thought I would lighten my purse by removing my DSLR. I ended up shooting with my iphone, but once again, I'm only editing in black and white for the rest of this month.

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