Sunrise

Come at me bro.

Patriotic Bench

w00t

Tomorrow is my first day as Adjunct Professor of Photography at UNL. Yikes!

One of the assignments will be urban photography:

Grasslands

I sure do love native grasslands!

Larger Photos!

I think it's time for a slight redesign. Enjoy the new, larger photo format!

It's been a long December

It's been a long, tiring, and difficult year. 

I poured my soul in to a project that was warmly received and rather successful. I created some of the best images of my life and then let them go, permanently, as a way to find some sort of catharsis.

I know the hip thing is to shun resolutions, but I have one, and I don't think it will be too hard to maintain. You'll see the fruits of it here.

Cheers to a good year for all.

Presale!

I spoke with Anne Burkholder and got the OK to do a pre-sale for my November show at the Burkholder Project!

So, if you've been following my posts and photos that I've been doing lately for the show, and you've been interested in getting one for yourself please let me know! Any sales I make will go to paying for the rest of the frames I still need to make the show a reality!

Everything else you see is for sale! First come, first serve.
SOLD: Leaf, Chair, Grass, Magnolia, and Vines

Remember, this is going to be a super low print run, making the prints very rare. We're talking one print each, signed as such! I'll be selling them at the show for $75 each, but for the pre-sale I'll do $50 as a thank-you to those of you helping me out and taking some ownership over the show with me!

The only catch is that you have to let me display the photo for the entire month of November. It'll be marked as sold, so no one will be able to buy it out from underneath you!

Thanks in advance!

Another Project Update!

Went out with a new Duaflex today, different dust, same cool effect!

Simple

Loving this at the moment.

Movie

I have some photos making an appearance in a movie that's being filmed in Lincoln. It's called: "Vino Veritas" (http://vinoveritasmovie.com/synopsis/). I know the set decorator, and she contacted me to see if I'd be interested. The director of the movie is from Lincoln originally, and wanted to use local artists that had pictures taken elsewhere in the world (as one of the main characters is a photographer that travels the world).

The only regret is that I had a VERY small notice, so I had to go with what I already had printed to get them there on time. Note to self, keep tons of prints around! Both prints are from Prague, Czech Republic.

She sent me a couple of photos via her cell phone:

Capitol

Update III

Here's a shot of me taking the leaf picture, courtesy of Lanette! The contraption gets a lot of attention, and you can see why! Usually people are like what the heck is that thing?!?!?

Here's the leaf:

And here's one I took today of St. Mary's next to the Capitol building.

Update

I'm now over 10 edited photos with my new project, with quite a few sitting squarely on the fence that can go either way. I'm shooting (lol pun) for around 50 total photos for the show, so this is quite a nice start. Here are a couple of photos as an update. I wanted to keep most of the shots a secret to entice you all to come to the show, but I'm so excited with what I've been getting I can't help but to keep sharing images!

The best part of the project? Constantly wanting to be out shooting!

11 | 11

I have finalized what I'm going to do for my full show at the Burkholder Project in November, and here's a sneak peak!

I bought a device off of a gentleman who does a lot of DIY photography projects. The objective is simple: It connects an old TLR, in this case a Kodak Duaflex II, to my camera, and I shoot through one of its lenses. You can get some neat effects doing this, including original dust build up and the frayed frame edges. The effect can be similar to those iPhone and Android apps that you can buy, but in this case I'm using actual hardware to get the core image.

I'm going to do a lot of shooting over the next few months for the show using this set up. Ultimately I'm going to print 5 x 5 prints matted and framed to 10 x 10. But the really cool thing about the show originates from an idea given to me by Lydia. Each photo will only be printed once. Anyone that buys one of the photos gets the satisfaction of knowing that they are the only person in the world that will have it. Each print will be signed, and marked 1/1 for authenticity. I'll retain a digital copy for portfolio/promotional purposes only.

I'm hoping to shoot at least 50 new, worthy images for the project, which should drive the price down in regards to my costs, thus making it so that I can offer the prints at a price point people can afford.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts on the project!

Sandhill Cranes

With a severe snow storm moving into the Burwell area tomorrow morning, Lanette and I have decided to forgo the prairie chickens this year. No one wants to spend 3 hours on the highway with ice and 5 inches of snow.

Instead, we'll hang around and hit up some more cranes!

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