dustin perkins :: portraits :: promo

I recently had the honor of working with Oklahoma musician Dustin Perkins on his up and coming album "Words".  Not only was I in charge of the layout but I was also able to draw all of the artwork for the album's cover material. As if that wasn't cool enough they let me go even further and asked me to come up with a conceptual photo shoot that would have the same aesthetic as the album's cover. 

Working with Dustin is always great.  He's easy going, charming, and you can tell he really has a passion for his, what I'm sure is often difficult-career choice.  But it seems like he would never want to live a minute doing anything else.  His music and song writing is superb and I invite everyone to get a copy of his album.  It will be available on August 17th.  If you want to see more of Dustin click---->here.  But make sure you check his pictures out below first. 

Words album artwork, a collaboration of Dustin Perkins, my wife Ashley, and myself.

Polaroid taken during the promo shoot.  Literally only found here on this blog.

Official Dustin Perkins promotional photo.

 

 

 

what's new is old again

Recently the boss's daughter got married.  I happened to be there, and while there, I got to take a few pictures with my gorgeous Polaroid 100 Land camera, shot on Impossible Project Film, negatives air dried and later scanned with imperfections.  Love the look.  Reminds me of the old tintypes of yore.  

impossible louisiana

It's another wedding weekend down in South Louisiana, but before I left I wanted to share a shot taken on The Impossible Project's latest film.  I'll see you all after I get back into town!

horses, horses, horses...

This is one of those driving-down-the-road-pull-over-and-take-a-picture moments.  It is a practice I usually don't practice enough of.  This day, I was glad I did.  Taken with expired Impossible Project sepia 100 film.

roots :: an underground study II

"I think that I shall never see/ A poem as lovely as a tree." -Joyce Kilmer

off interstate 20

It is starting to become some sort of tradition:  When scheduled for pictures at Millsap-bring along an extra camera or two for some great photo ops along the route.  Here is one of them found on the outside of Millsap, right off of interstate 20.  Shot with my Polaroid land camera and Impossible sepia film. 

instant beauty

Ewan with hobbit hair: taken with my Fuji Instax 210 with instax wide format film.

Aidan and bike: taken with my Polaroid 100 land camera with Impossible Polaroid film.

The beauty of instant film.

he-man woman haters club

I think every all-American boy should been able to grow up having a tree house in the backyard.  I every all-American boys' father should be able to have a hammock underneath it.  Perfect.
Taken with my Polaroid Land Camera on Impossible Sepia film. 

the living room

In South Louisiana when the weather is right, and even often when it isn't, this is the place that gets more living than the room with the TV in it; and in about 18 hours from right now, that's where I will be-sitting on those Adirondack chairs, drinking on a cup of coffee. Here's a nice shot of that holy place I speak of...the front porch.

farm antiques

On the farm tractors are essential, and when you got a good one you use it 'til its dead. This one is still alive and kickin', though (with most farm equipment) probably needs a little help to get going. The scan of the print is pretty lo-fi, which I don't like, because the vague detail in the shadows of this photo is what gives it its true quality; but hopefully you get the idea.

found art :: paint cans and cabinets

My first foray into the Impossible Project's sepia film made for the 100 Land camera was impressive. I used my first pack, my test pack, on my mom and dad's place out in Greensburg, Louisiana. The house is newly built, but not without it's own history. I stumbled upon this little scene in my dad's work storage room where one can also find several tool boxes, cow show tools, ropes, gas cans, and plenty of bugs.

polaroid series IV

Continuing my love of instant prints (you can't say instant photography anymore because with digital, everything is instant). Taken on some old Polaroid 600 film I managed to get my hands on before they left the shelves forever.

polaroid series III

Another series of Polaroids. I did it This American Life Style, choosing a theme then bringing you a variety of photographs based on that theme. This theme: childhood.

snow dayz II

Another shot from the recent frigid storm that passed through Fort Worth. One day, antsy and slowly succumbing to cabin fever, I packed up the kids and we just went on a drive/slide down the road to see the snowy sights. I took my camera along and brought this back.

polaroid series II

Another initial shot taken with the ol' Land Camera. The film expired in the eighties, but sometimes things like that work for a photograph and not against it.

christ chapel

An old photograph of a new church. This is one of my very first polaroids taken with a vintage polaroid 100 land camera. Scanned, photoshopped the contrast, gave it the sepia tone, posted it on my blog. Wa-la.

polaroid series I

Who doesn't love Polaroids? I began a series of Polaroid themed photos when Polaroid announced they'd stop making instant film to give my last few packs of film actual purpose and meaning (that's before I found out about The Impossible Project, but anyway). So here's the first theme: Night Clubs.

twenty five cents

Old news: Last year Polaroid stopped making instant film. Gone are the land cameras and square images, and instant memories archived on what once was a genius medium: instant photographs, that only minutes after capture are processed and ready to fit right into an album, onto a dashboard, into a pocket, a picture frame, a scrapbook. Digital can't even say that. The announcement of the end of instant film prompted me to buy some 600 Polaroid film and keep it for a rainy day. I am currently working on a gallery of images and themes and concepts all shot with my remaining Polaroid film. The image below is not one of those shots, but let's call it a homage to the land camera, Polaroid film, instant memories, and a time when not everyone craved the HD experience.

vintage greatness

I don't know why, but there's just something about streamline trailers. They. Are. Awesome! Here's one I stole a photo of on the interstate home. Ha, ha! How cool?!

martinis

Originally taken with a Polaroid sx-70 film camera, I scanned the Polaroid into photo shop and applied a diffusion type filter just to make the overall feeling more ethereal. The blue tone though was not photo shopped at all. It was shot late in the evening using window light only. Again, just an old favorite photo I took as the result of sheer boredom.