window light in the morning

Long awaited return...

I've been enormously busy as my first semester has sped by.  Busy but happy, and leaving some things, like updating my blog, last on the list.  But alas, I'll pull out a couple of the prints I made during my photography class last spring.  First, my gorgeous model and dear friend, Lindsey, in the bathtub.  Then a photogram of zippers that I think turned out pretty rad.  Last, lichen that was growing on a fountain at the Mountain View cemetary here in Oakland.  Enjoy!

on grand avenue

take two: prints

I've been spending every last free moment I have in the darkroom printing.  Here are some new prints, shot on 35mm Kodak Plus-X with my Pentax K1000.

print me

New shots with the Holga using 120 Kodak Plus-X: photographed, developed and printed by me.

home

“There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.”

~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Perhaps I'm getting a bit sentimental as I look forward to my upcoming visit back to Iowa.  I love where I live now, but I still consider Iowa to be one of the most beautiful places.  I've come to miss some of its beauty, as well as the wide open space which has become less prominent in my day to day life.  These are some 12+ year old photos I took (on disposable 35mm cameras) that I dug out of storage and scanned.  I like how you can see the dust and scratches and regular damage of a photo that's been through years of admiration, love and memory.

I swear I can almost smell that sweet air!  Dear Iowa, a piece of my heart will always lie with you.

circles and time

“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.”

~Albert Einstein

mimosa please

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

~Jack Kerouac

umbrella failure in oakland, ca

“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”

~Rabindranath Tagore

griffin gaurds the gateway

Welcome to the Chapel of Chimes.  See more photos here.

Inspiration

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

~Vincent van Gogh

passport to another blog

With some expired film, a borrowed Passport Polaroid camera and a few random props, you can make some interesting things.  See the resulting photos here and here, and be sure to open the images in a separate window so you can view them in 3-D (think Magic Eye).  Check out the rest of the blog as well, cause it's amazing!

double exposed on telegraph

"Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.  And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss."
~Banksy

muir beach

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
~Paulo Coelho

Chinatown

February 26th 2011 ~ San Francisco, Ca

optical distortion

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

~Dr. Seuss

sun on the water

cast

“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

veneer

“It was that fatal and perfidious bark / Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark.”

~John Milton