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.

help me obi-wan kenobi

What's better than playing Monopoly with good friends? Playing the Star Wars Trilogy version with good friends. Unfortunately the Force was apparently not with me as I was the first to go bankrupt. My opponents must have been Sith Lords in disguise and clouded my vision. Friggin' dark side.

cotton pickin'

Before I grow old and die I have one thing I really want to see happen as it pertains to my photos:  I want to have a gallery show featuring all the images I've taken of Louisiana.  If you know me at all then you know that I've been hunting for a publisher of a book I've been working on for the past seven or eight years based solely on my growing up in Livingston Parish.  Yeah, I'm sure I've mentioned it a time or two here.  The images I've captured over the years of that region also have their share of "outtakes" on the roll of film that accompany the ones set aside specifically for Livingston, these are just random shots of the state that I've taken over the years.  In fact, the Livingston project began with a much broader theme in mind-the entire state of Louisiana herself-and so in the beginning I was stopping on the side of the road all the time.  Early on I realized that it was much to massive of a project to get done in any sort of timely (I'm using the word rather loosely) manner and that if I ever intended on actually finishing a project I should narrow my scope.  Which I did, focusing on just one parish.  As an afterthought though the "big picture" of capturing the state at large isn't such a bad idea.  In fact, I'm still pretty sure it is one I intend on tackling.  The only difference is now I have the knowledge and the patience to understand that like a woman, it will take years to truly capture all the beauty and secrets and intrigue and history that the state embodies.  I'm okay with that now as I realize that I've still many years ahead of me and rest in the simple fact that getting out there and taking pictures five, ten, twenty, thirty years from now is still exciting. All of this is to introduce this photograph, what may be the beginning of truly lifelong ambition. 

presenting : the Reyes family : portraits

 The Reyes Family.  Trinity Park, Fort Worth, Tx.  Shot with my D200 and Mamiya RZ Pro II on  120 Kodak Portra 400 speed film.  The results: beautiful.

 

 

roots :: an underground study II

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

reyes family portraits :: teaser

Last weekend I got to photograph Aidan and his parents.  I'll be honest, he kept me on the move, but it's photographs like this one where he really believes that he can fly, that make what I do so awesome.

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. 

these boots were made for bankin'

While standing in line at my bank, the bank of Texas, this guy walks in.  Figures.

welcome to beautiful greensburg!

Greensburg, Louisiana; town hall...enough said.

the underground world of groundhogs

There is a park down the street from my home with a creek that literally cuts the park in half.  Bone dry most of the year, when it does rain here in North Texas it doesn't play, and the creek fills up with water fast.  The creek bed is rock and fine sand and the flash flood currents that have happened again and again and again over the years has ripped away the grounds around the trees that have grown up beside the twisting, turning path of the creek.  The result is a sneak peak at the root system of trees half a century old-give or take.  Another result is my interest in these tree roots.  For some reason I find them so completely interesting.