keep it cloche

street value

so it glows

Piedmont, CA: Summer 2011



plucked

A found pheasant not plundered, but made to live in beauty beyond.

at the edge of the world

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe.  We are enfolded in the universe.
~David Bohm



loom love

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action.  They must be woven together.
~Anais Nin

quick queue

a sunday reflection

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

~T. S. Eliot

through the looking glass

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

~Lewis Carroll

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