Lensbaby

I have an original $99 Lensbaby. They have been around 6 years and have gone through a lot of changes. The first model has a single element plastic lens with 3 aperture rings that must be changed manually. The lens has a small in focus area and the rest is blurred. It is mounted on a bellows so that you can move the focus area around. It's a very fun lens but not accurate and not easy to use on a long exposure. Here are a few shots I took at my parents house on a very foggy night. The backlighting is provided by sodium vapor lights and is very orange. I converted them to gray scale in Photoshop. There are nine in this series that I call, quite cleverly, "The Foggy Night Series." I would like to have all nine printed on stretched canvas for a gallery show. Sponsors?

Oscar Meyer

Here are a couple of photos that fall into the right time at the right place category. I was driving by LP Field looking for something to shoot along the riverfront. The weather wasn't that great so I just shot a few frames of downtown to use for practice with the panoramic stitch tool. As I was waiting at a red light to turn on to Shelby, I spotted two Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles getting gas at the Daily's. They pulled out and got on the interstate. I was still waiting on the light. I thought they were going to get away. Finally the light turned green and I chased them up I-65 North. I got a few shots as I was driving. (Operating a camera while driving is not recommended)

This is an out take from a magazine assignment. I shot this on June 1st in 2007. This is a link to the article. And here's the uncropped version of the photo of McNary Dam on the Columbia River that they used on the opening spread on the article. The online version they use doesn't do it or the print layout justice.














The assignment was really interesting. I got to shoot a salmon recovery operation at the Three Mile Falls Dam on the Umatilla River run by members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in the morning and in the afternoon, Madison Farms which grows vast amounts of crops to feed the growing need for bio diesel. Two completely different but necessary uses of the limited supply of water from the Columbia River. Both sides feeling that they are the doing the best in the name of environmental issues. Water is definitely the issue that defines the American West. Here are a couple more shots I did that were not used.

New Blog

So this is the new blog. I've been thinking about doing one for a while now. The more I learn about social networking, the more attractive it becomes as a marketing tool. I don't think that there is a cheaper way to reach the biggest number of people possible than with the internet.

I don't really know what direction the blog will take just yet. I don't have a lot of photo work going on right now so I will probably start by looking at some old photos I have taken and talk about them, where they were shot, what for, and how. I'll probably throw some personal work in also as I shoot new things. The layout is going to change very soon. I am in the process of creating a completely new logo and I want to integrate my website into the blog as well. For example, I want you to be able to navigate through my website using buttons on the blog just like it is part of the website. Of course the whole purpose is to drive more traffic to my website so that the right photo buyers see my photos and hire me and fly me to awesome locations to shoot the photos I was meant to shoot. So if you have a blog, link to mine and I will do the same. Tell all your friends and anyone that you think would be interested in this stuff. Thanks.