Monday, November 30, 2009

Willamette Valley



Beautiful Oregon wine country in the fall... Found some grapes still clinging to the vine. Such a lovely day!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Show your bones


First off, I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and their album "Show Your Bones". You all should run right out and listen to it if you have not yet done so.
I also have a fascination with actual bones and animal skins and such and am always looking for a way to photographically capture the beauty and intensity of these objects in a compelling way. Here are two recent experiments using the same skull as the central object.

New Studio Work


Playing around with some new ideas and stylistic devices... I've been working with different ways to get an old-timey, sort of antiqued look that isn't blatantly Photo-chopped. Here is one of the more successful attempts...

Monday, September 21, 2009

Cool tones/ Warm tones



Two versions: one image that goes toward the cooler end of the light spectrum and another image that is warmer... I love color casts and using them to enhance the mood of an image.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Kung Fu Fight!





Following along in the action and movement vein, I've got some cool shots of the Portland Shao-lin Center...
Sorry for the long delay in posts-- I've been distracted by the gorgeous Portland summer... I can guarantee that I will more than make up for it when our 9 months or so of rain arrive in the near future....

Friday, July 31, 2009

ze film noir


It's fun to comb through the old photo archives from time to time and look at older work with fresh eyes. I found this photo of the lovely Sarah Head today... I love the film noir kind of thing that's going on.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Sideshow








So here are some images from an ongoing sideshow-themed project of mine... I seem to constantly be coming up with grand personal project ideas, though I don't have the grand amounts of time to work on them... Bearded Lady, Knife-thrower, Tattooed Man pictured here.

Coming Soon(ish): Sad clown on a tiny bicycle. And a contortionist loosely based on that fantastic series of images from the Bombay Circus by Mary Ellen Mark http://www.maryellenmark.com/frames/icircus.html