May 2012
6 posts
White Sand Dunes, Plate VII
First of all, let me apologize for not posting my remaining photographs from White Sands National Monument as regularly as promised, but I’ve been busy with college graduation and finding a place to live in southeast Connecticut and moving back to Texas for a couple weeks. In any case, here ya go.
See the other photographs I made of White Sands National Monument and other destinations on...
White Sand Dunes, Plate VI
See the other photographs I made of White Sands National Monument and other destinations on my road trip across the Southwest United States last June here.
Nikon D40 52mm, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, ISO 200
White Sand Dunes, Plate IX
See the other photographs I’ve made of White Sands National Monument here.
Nikon D40 32mm, f/8, 1/400 sec, ISO 200
Free at Last, Free at Last
At approximately 3:22pm on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, I finished my undergraduate studies. I left my last exam and felt pretty much exactly how the man in the photo did when this photograph was made.
You’ll have to excuse the quality of the image; I’ve recently set up a bellows and rail system to “scan” my film negatives by photographing the negatives using a dSLR and I...
White Sand Dunes, Plate V
As I’ve mentioned before, the true highlight of my road trip through the Southwest United States last June was White Sands National Monument in New Mexico. While I only had the one sunset to photograph the park, I’d like to think I made the most of it and walked away with a good number of strong photographs that I will post over the next couple days. I truly hope I was able to...
Redemption
As some of y’all may be aware, my experience with film photography began in April 2010 with a Holga 120N, a simple camera with no “real” controls. Over the past two years, my interest in analog photography has increased dramatically and my collection of film cameras have grown to include a Bronica ETRSi, a Mamiya C220, a Nikon F, and a Zorki-4.
While each of these cameras are...
April 2012
6 posts
Through the Window to Hell
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Big Bend National Park, a “Texas-sized” national park that lies in the Southwest Texas. The park encompasses over 800,000 acres and borders on approximately 244 miles of the 1000-miles of the USA-Mexico made by the Rio Grande. Big Bend...
Looking to a Yesterday Not Yet Come
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Monument Valley, a Navajo indian reservation just north of the Arizona/Utah border. The drive through the park is surprisingly rough and, personally, I wouldn’t recommend taking a Dodge Grand Caravan through it. It should not, however, be ignored...
The Passing of One and A Second Coming
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
As I mentioned in my last post, my D40 will not be coming back to me as the repair facility was not able to replace the rear LCD due to an 18-month-old crack (that I’ve never once cared about). Incidentally, from what I was told, they were able to fix the red channel issue. In any case, because they weren’t...
A Final Farewell
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
So as some of you may remember from about a month ago, my D40’s red channel stopped functioning. Luckily, it was still covered, but unfortunately, they were not able to fully repair it. All is not lost, however, as there’s always a silver lining…
Nikon D40 85mm, f/4, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
Deliverance From Fate
Bronica ETRSi, 75mm, f/8, 1/125 sec Ilford HP5+ 400, D-76 (stock), 8min Epson 4490
The Scarlet Touch
Bronica ETRSi, 75mm, f/11, 1/60 sec Ilford FP4+ 125 @ 200, D-76 (1+1), 15min Epson 4490
March 2012
9 posts
This One Dream I Had, Plate IV
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
I’m a huge fan of the impressionism movement in the painting realm of the art world and have been searching for a way to incorporate its particular aesthetic into photography.
About a year ago, I decided to pick up a concept project that I thought about starting years ago. Dreamweaver is a series of photographs...
Brisket, Cornbread, and Sweet Tater Pie
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Sometimes all you need to be at home is some brisket and cornbread. TH and I stopped by here for dinner after finding every other BBQ place closed or out of beef.
Nikon D40 85mm, f/3.5, 1/100 sec, ISO 800
To Have You Once More and Never Again
To Have You Never Again
Nikon D40 85mm, f/11, 1/800 sec, ISO 400
That’s right. Flower macros. Taken during a meetup with Thomas Hawk in Houston last summer.
To Have You Once More
Nikon D40 85mm, f/8, 1/2000 sec, ISO 200
Faeries and Grimoires
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Thomas Hawk and I stopped by for lunch in Niko Niko’s, a fantastic little Greek restaurant in the Neartown district of Houston. Afterwards, we stopped by The Magick Cauldron, Houston’s self-proclaimed “premier Pagan religious supplier”. We didn’t stay long as “these kind of places...
Reflections of Joy
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Thomas Hawk and I found this gentleman waiting for a bus in downtown Houston. (Yes there is some amount of public transportation in Houston.) He took an interest in what we were doing and gladly allowed us to take a couple portraits of him.
Nikon D40 35mm, f/8, 1/60 sec, ISO 400
When the Light Leaves My Eyes
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Featured in the photograph above is an installation called “Red” that is part of an installation by University of Texas at Austin art professor Margo Sawyer. The four-piece ensemble is called “Synchronicity of Color” and features many boxes of color. The two largest pieces of the ensemble...
A Quick Escape
I’m going to try to churn out the photographs I made during the weekend photowalk around Houston with Thomas Hawk last summer while my D40 is out for repairs.
This particular photograph was made from the roof of a quirky dollar store in the center of downtown Houston.
Nikon D40 32mm, f/5, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200
To Walk Amongst the Living Once More
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
As I mentioned in my last post, the red channel of my beloved Nikon D40 died out. Fortunately, however, my extended warranty covered it and I should have Dominique back in my hands in a couple weeks.
Nikon D40 85mm, f/4, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
With Death Comes Glory
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
I was out and about making photographs with my beloved Nikon D40 yesterday when suddenly the red channel decided to call it quits and stopped working altogether.
Rest in Peace, Dominique. You truly were far too young, but you served masterfully in your nearly four years of honorable service. While you have left this...
February 2012
8 posts
A Rant About Photography
Intersection of Knowledge and Experience Nikon D40 18mm, f/8, 3 sec, ISO 200
I love photography. And everything about it.
I love picking up one of my cameras and popping a fresh roll of refrigerated film (or a memory card) into it and going out. The weight, the heft. My hand wrapped around the electro/mechanical tool.
I love exploring alleys around my home and my city and finding something...
A Ghost and a Mirage
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Nikon D40 18mm, f/16, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
The Darkness in You
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Nikon D40 18mm, f/16, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200
Frigid as the Day She Left
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Arches National Park just outside of Moab, Utah. The drive around the park truly is amazing; the National Park Service should consider using it as another advertisement point for Arches.
Nikon D40 55mm, f/8, 1/250 sec, ISO 200
A Path Gone Down Twice
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Carlsbad Caverns just outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. It’s a wonderful walk around the cave with natural structures that are just completely unreal.
Nikon D40 18mm, f/8, 26.2 sec, ISO 400
The Parting of Souls Gone Black
This photograph was made when I went roadtripping across the Southwestern United States back in the summer of 2011.
This photograph was taken at Carlsbad Caverns just outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico. It’s a wonderful walk around the cave with natural structures that are just completely unreal.
Nikon D40 18mm, f/8, 30 sec, ISO 400
The Man He Used To Be
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Nikon D40 50mm, f/2, 1/40 sec, ISO 400
The Ghoul I Won't Remember
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Nikon D40 50mm, f/2, 1/160 sec, ISO 400
January 2012
16 posts
The Ghoul I Don't Remember
Taken during a weekend meetup with Thomas Hawk in my hometown of Houston.
Nikon D40 50mm, f/2, 1/50 sec, ISO 400
Fall, Plate III
Nikon D40 35mm, f/1.8, 1/40 sec, ISO 400
Guarded by Thermopylae
Plate I Nikon D40 35mm, f/2.8, 1/400 sec, ISO 200
Back in March of last year, I was in the Government Center area looking to shoot some street scenes in the college-visiting-tourist high season. I noticed the light on the JFK Building and went over to shoot it. At the time, I’d forgotten that it was a federal building and taking images of the building would likely be frowned upon....
Whispers of White
Nikon D40 35mm, f/11, 1/640 sec, ISO 200
How the Times Have Changed
Nikon D40 50mm, f/2.8, 1/640 sec, ISO 200
Tracking Dirt and Shame
Nikon D40 50mm, f/5.6, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200
For a Tomorrow Worth Naught At All
Nikon D40 50mm, f/5.6, 1/500 sec, ISO 200
Pant Dance
I was walking around the Boston University student union way back in February 2011 and I loved how the woman in the photography was standing in the best lit part of The Link. She was originally standing in tableaux with an expression of longing on her face, but by the time I had the Bronica focussed and ready to shoot, she’d begun to perform the unmistakable Pant Dance.
Bronica ETRSi,...
Keys for Tomorrow
Nikon D40 35mm, f/2.8, 1/80 sec, ISO 200
Earth, Water, Air, and Steel
Nikon D40 35mm, f/8, 30 sec, ISO 200
Chihuly's Colorful Crystal Coppice
“I’d seen a chandelier in a restaurant in Barcelona when I was traveling. The chandelier was hanging at eye level. It was really beautiful. When you sat down to eat you looked underneath it, and it acted as a centerpiece for the table. I loved this idea of hanging a chandelier at eye level. And it triggered something that said, I now can make a chandelier, because it doesn’t have to be...
Hung Out to Dry
Georgia O’Keeffe - “Deer’s Skull with Pedernal” (1936)
Your Name in Lights
The DMUBoston Meetup was 441 days ago today (that’s 63 weeks!) and I’m FINALLY posting my last photograph from the weekend.
The weekend of October 22nd to October 25th, 2010 was by long and far the most amazing weekend of my life (photographically speaking, that is). A massive group of photographers from across the US and Canada came to Boston for the sole intent of photographing...
Blink Once for Yes
For the first time since October 2010, I have no photos left to process. The DMUBoston Meetup photos are done. The NYC with Mo photos are done. The Houston with TH photos are done. The Southwest USA Road Trip photos are done. The vacation photos and all the other things are done. All this really means is that I need to start posting these photos and that I need to start shooting again.
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Open Doors
The DMUBoston Meetup was over a year ago and I’m still posting photos from it.
Simmons Hall, designed by Steven Holl and dedicated in 2002, is one of the dormitories at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the cost of $78.5 million, it is MIT’s most expensive dorm. There are a total of 5500 2’ x 2’ windows like those shown here on the facade of the building...
Remains at the End of the Century
Three Greenway Plaza is one of the ten buildings in Greenway Plaza, a 50-acre campus alond the Southwest Freeway. Greenway Plaza is Houston’s first master-planned business-commercial-residential complex developed by the late Kenneth Schnitzer. In the days following the grand opening in 1973, Bill Schadewald of the Houston Press said that Greenway Plaza- with its office towers, retail...
December 2011
2 posts
The Shame in Your Defeat
I made this photograph when I met up with Garry Nixon back in early November. This tyrannosaurus rex stands guard outside of the Boston Museum of Science.
Mamiya C220, 80mm, f/2.8, 1/60 sec Kodak Tri-X 400 pushed to 800, Sprint Standard (1:9), 15min Epson 4490
An Education in Chinese Culture
Meet Garry Nixon, also known as Pig Sty Avenue. Garry is a DMU regular and opened the local watering hole there a couple years ago. I had the pleasure of meeting up with him for a couple hours back in early November when he was in town for a business trip (all the way from Shanghai). We didn’t shoot much, but we did have plenty of excellent conversation about China and Chinese culture,...
November 2011
2 posts
If Only You Weren't My Friend (Never Claimed to be...
The DMUBoston Meetup was over a year ago and I’m still posting photos from it.
I’ve been in a strange place photographically for the past couple months. For a while, between the Houston shoot with Thomas Hawk in May and the Road Trip through the Southwestern United States in June and various other trips over the rest of the summer, I fell really far behind in processing. Then I shot...
This One Dream I Had, Plate III
A couple months ago, I decided to pick up a concept project that I thought about starting <i>years</i> ago. The concept is fairly straightforward: a series of photographs depicting characters you may encounter in a dream- or a nightmare, as the case may be.
I’m also a huge fan of the impressionism movement and have been searching for a way to incorporate that into...
October 2011
3 posts
Slightly Vacuous
Taken at the NYC with Mo Meetup
Meet Paul, a.k.a. tapper22, a professor in the greater New York City area. He’s slightly insane, but a wonderful person to meet.
Bronica ETRSi, 75mm, f/8, 1/250 sec Ilford FP4+125 pushed to 200, D-76 1+1, 15min Epson 4490