Ben came over for a little myspace shoot yesterday because I got my alien bee, and here's my favorite shot from it. to me it's got kind of a sarcastic funnyness to it. today i've got a shoot with a band called meridene out of eau claire wisconsin, so it'll be a good ol' drive out to wisconsin.

i haven't been to wisconsin since I moved back, so it'll be interesting to go back there. at least it's just to eau claire and not milwaukee.

so i got an alien bee yesterday, and i'm pretty excited to start using it. tomorrow i have a senior shoot, and hopefully i'll be able to use it. otherwise, I've got a shoot on sunday that I'll use it for. I've got to interview/do a portrait shoot with a teacher at ARCC in the next two weeks, some guy emailed me about shooting at his restaurant, aaaaaand yeah. hopefully all this pulls through.

This is the guitar player of Sky Eats Airplane, thought it was a pretty good laugh.

Now I'm watching something about the chupucabra on discovery channel, pretty crazy stuff.

off to a senior shoot now, photos will be up later hopefully.

haha

i don't know if you can read this but this is Portia de Rossi's IMDB page, and her "STARmeter" went up 19,333% last week after her and Ellen DeGeneres got married. Sadly, it is down 98% this week. Much love to www.imdb.com

oh and a disclaimer, in my iChat window, someone was saying "i didn't know she was gay," not saying it in a negative sense!

photography 1

this is what happens when you know about aperture and take photography 1

class is starting to speed up a little bit. we got our first photo assignment, and it's to go shoot a building that looks very ordinary, but shoot in in a very unordinary way. not sure where i'm going to shoot this yet but i'm excited about it.

i'm pretty sure there are two people who have touched cameras in my photography 1 course. it was pretty ridiculous, but our teacher seems to be very thorough and hopefully i'll learn a thing or two.

tomorrow i'm going downtown to the RNC to catch some photos of the protesters there and hopefully not get maced, wish me luck!

Day 3.
This is my dad's old saw that is collecting dust in our back room. It's probably been around just as long as I have, if not longer. Still works great, and gets used every now and then, but for the most part just sits in the back closet, building it's character.



Day 4.
I was in the target parking lot, driving my mom's car, waiting to trade guitars with a friend. This was the day my mom had her surgery, and I would have taken a picture in the hospital, but it just didn't feel right bringing my camera in and taking photos when everyone is so distressed. everything went fine, and now she's doing great.



Day 5.
first apple computer. second workspace. the end



Day 6.
took some pictures up in clearwater, and there was a chair in this tree. where i shot was a total little fishing community, and it was amazing. i love the rural lifestyle almost as much as i love the urban lifestyle, if not more.

Day 1

Day 2


I decided that I wanted to challenge myself and do a 365 day project. I don't want to have 365 pictures of myself, so I'm going to do different themes every week. My first week is black and white, and I've got a few other ideas for down the line.

Day 1.
At my friend Ben's. His mom runs a day care, so they have tons of toys and kid's books sitting in their basement, and this was in the closet there.

Day 2.
The Ramsey Municipal Parking lot. I was driving home from my good friend Mike's after we did an NFL fantasy draft, when I saw the amazing parking garage to my right. At first I was a little hesitant because I've heard horror stories of people walking around with tripods, someone calling the cops, getting yelled to get on the ground at gunpoint, but I thought it could be an adventure. To be honest, it wasn't exciting at all. Probably 10 cars passed me in 45 minutes of walking/shooting, and the one police officer I saw noticed I had a camera so he kept moving.

Today I work at Levi's again, and I'm enjoying my job. It's fun to finally be around more people that are relatively my age. Plus there are a bunch of awesome pants!

Tomorrow my mom is getting some pretty serious surgery done to her neck, and it's a little nerve racking. The surgery has an amazing success rate, but you can't help but sit uneasy. I'm sure everything will be fine.