New Work

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17 February 2002: Back to the street

Really, it's not like I've only been shooting digitally for the last month. The Canon G2 doesn't really work too well for street photography. For that, it's real film and an all-manual camera. I make the decisions and I make the mistakes.

Whiny luddite babbling aside, I've just uploaded a bunch of new street images, shot over the last month or so.

27 January 2002: A few more digital images

A few more images with no content relationship to each other. Take a look!

13 January 2002: Some digital images

Well, I finally bought a digital camera. I've posted some of the more successful images from the first 5 days I've had it, plus some rambling musings about what it all means.

3 November 2001: Some street and other work

Look, only two months later and I'm showing new work. A record! Today I'm posting a smattering of street and other work from October, including a portrait of Edgar, "Mr. Not The Smartest Looking Cat In The World." Check it out.

9 September 2001: Excuses and new street work in Seattle

See, I'm actually shooting new stuff all the time, but I don't post it here because it takes work to add it to the site in my stylish template. But I do post it on my site, just in hidden places, using Photoshop's web photo gallery feature, which doesn't look that great, but does have the benefit of low cost of entry.

Anyway, the point is, I'm going to start posting new work that way here... like today's new street work. It won't be as stylishly formatted, but at least people will be able to see it.

3 February 2001: New street work, Seattle

Good golly, actual new work -- six images I shot in January, in the sort of dark street photography style I seem to be sticking to these days.

You'd think from these photos that I wear a lot of black all the time and moon around moaning "la mort... la mort...".

The truth is, I just wear black t-shirts and mumble "f/4... f/4..." (hah hah, I make ze leetle photography joke)

What do you think of these? Drop me a line...

30 September 2000: Volunteer Park Conservatory, Seattle

This is actually not particularly new work -- shot in January of 1999 -- but I scanned them 18 months ago meaning for them to make it up here, and never got around to it. So... it's new to you.

If you'd like to visit the Volunteer Park Conservatory, here's a map.

10 June 2000: Parking Garages

... is in its own gallery.

1 September 1999: Big Dark Town

Since this is really a new body of work, I've put it in its own gallery.

10 February 1999: Ritual de mis locos amigos

The direct inspiration or direction for this set of photos is an assignment from my Portraiture class this term. The assignment was to do "invented portraiture", in the manner of someone like Cindy Sherman or Joel Peter-Witkin.

This assignment (predictably) merged in my mind with my dark past as an anthropology major, my interest in folk ritual, and the sick minds of a couple of friends who I pressed into service as co-conspirators and models. The result: Rituals from a folk religion that hasn't been invented yet. Like it? Hate it? Let me know...

Thanks to Jacqueline and Vince for their help and patience.

(as always, click on an image below to see the full-sized photograph)

21 December 1998: Ninja Kitty

WARNING: Cute cat photos ahead.

OK, here's the deal. Our cat, Rusty, has been demonstrating the normal cat fixation with the tub for some time now. She'll sneak into the tub, lap up some of the water around the drain, hang out, stuff like that.

One night last month, I decided that she needed some fresh water to drink in the tub, so I turned the faucet on briefly. Rusty was less interested in the fresh water than I expected -- instead, she was transfixed by the last drops of water dripping from the faucet.

"Ha ha," I thought, "look at the silly cat, watching the water drip." I called Miz Becky over and she and I stood there for a few minutes watching Rusty first watch the faucet, then paw at the opening to play with the water. More laughter ensued. Then Rusty repositioned herself under the faucet, watched carefully for a few more drips, and quick as -- well, quick as a cat, she lashed out with a paw and caught a drop of water on it in mid-fall. We sat in stunned silence as Rusty casually licked the drop of water off of her paw... and did it again. And again. And again.

A couple of weeks later, I managed to provoke the same behavior again (no easy task with a cat) and caught it on film.

No, this isn't great art. It's funny, though.

10 December 1998: Fall leaves and Hiroshige

This set of photos is a combination of three things:

1. In early November, we went to see a display of prints by Ando Hiroshige, a famous Ukiyoe artist.
2. All this fall, I had been walking to my bus stop past these beautiful japanese maples, which had been showing fall colors more spectacular than I had ever seen there before.
3. The weekend after we went to see the Hiroshige show, it was actually sunny in Seattle.

What else could I do? I went out to shoot some Hiroshige-inspired autumn leaves photos.

20 August 1998: Indie Film in Seattle

Wow, has it been that long since I posted new stuff up here? It's been a busy summer. Anyway... Back in June I spent three days shooting on the set of an indie movie my friend Stacy wrote and directed. I was there under two guises: one, for Stacy, was to shoot stills for publicity and whatnot; and two, for myself, was to document the production. As an old theater kid, I love hanging out on the set of a production like this. It's an exciting place to be, especially when your only responsibility is to wander around and take pictures of people getting stressed out.

It's been such a busy summer, I've only gotten through printing work prints from the first third of my rolls of film. Hopefully more prints will make it up here before it's really fall.

27 May 1998: The Word Project

You're sitting there in a little cafe in Seattle, minding your own business, and this guy appears. He's a little bit scary looking, maybe not all there, but what's really odd is what he asks you to do. He wants to take your picture, but there's a twist. He wants you to pick any word, write it on a steno pad, and then he wants you to hold that up while he takes your picture. What do you do?

Here's how eleven people reacted.

6 May 1998: The Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo

While we were in Tokyo in September of 1997, we visited the Tsukiji fish market. It turns out this is the biggest fish market in the world, and I'd believe it. We got there about 6:30 in the morning and were too late to see the Main Event, the fish auction. The fish had already been purchased by individual fish vendors, who were busy packing it up and sending it out to restaurants and markets across Tokyo. Have you ever looked at an ant hill and had trouble focusing because there was nowhere you could look where nothing was moving? That's what Tsukiji was like.

On a technical level, these pictures represent my current experiments with sacrificing shutter speed for deep depth of field. All of these images were shot at 1/30th of a second or slower, to keep the aperture around f/8 or higher.

10 March 1998: New work from Memories of Dreams

Hi folks, after a long delay I've finally gotten around to putting some new work up. Here are five new photos from the Memories of Dreams series. If you'd like to see more of this kind of work, you should go look at that gallery.

12 December 1997: Jake and Wonder

See, Becky's sister and her husband had this great cat named Wonder for the longest time... and a few months ago they decided to get a kitten. Jake is a great cat, but he and Wonder don't exactly get along. We were down at their house a month ago or so and this little tableau unfolded in front of me. (Jake is the one on the inside.)

21 November 1997: On the road. -- Moved to the Friends and Family page.

7 November 1997: Polaroid Transfers of Japan. -- Moved to the Polaroid Transfers page.