bent tree house

This house exists in a little run down neighborhood behind my local bank.  Either on the way to the bank or driving to work from it, I pass this house and always want to pull over get out and photograph it.  But, the neighborhood doesn't look too friendly and I never really know if it is occupied or not.  I finally got the opportunity with the holga 110.  I brought the car to a stop on a bright summer day, rolled down the window, took a quick small photograph, and then drove off.  Hardly noticed.  Even the house itself has already forgotten I was even there I was such a ninja.

 

crossroads

I'm just a little obsessed with the huge concrete structures that make up the design of our modern ways of travel.  Underneath them, looking up, I get a real feeling of scope and magnitude of how each one of us are ant-like among a thousand other ants and yet still have a pivotal part to play in the grand scheme of all things.  I don't know, it just helps me keep things in perspective.

cowtown :: a view

I recently bought some 110 film from the lomography store online.  Lomography is awesome and if you don't know what lomography is, google it and thank me later, because it is awesome.  But it is only awesome if you like old school photography and are a little bit nostalgic.  Okay, a lotta' bit nostalgic.  If you want to talk pixel size and megabytes and eff one four...you might not like what you see here.  But I digress.  So, I bought this 110 film and loaded it into a pocket sized holga spy camera which came all the way from Hong Kong and took it everywhere with me, and everywhere I went I took a picture.  What follows is the things I see on a daily basis.  My days in.  My days out.  My five day a week commute to the studio.  My mundane, boring, routine way 'round this good ol' West Texas life I lead-at least that's what I thought before I shot pictures of it with 110 film.  What do I think now?  I think life is beautiful.

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.  

two words: grape. fruit.

If my lunch has anything to say about it, seems like summer at the studio is almost upon us. From my point of view it looks delicious.

my two geniuses

Okay, let me set this up for you: My wife and I had to take care of some business at our bank. To keep our kids occupied during our little meeting I gave my youngest my phone, mainly to play Angry Birds or Temple Run or whatever. As long as he stayed still and quiet, which is always the name of the game when in public. About half way through the meeting I ducked my head out to make sure they weren't destroying the place and they both were still quietly sitting in the lobby-engaged, though now they both seemed to be "playing" on my phone. That was this past Monday. Today, while scrolling through my phone's images I came upon some photos I never took, but more mysterious than that was that the images were little abstract works of art that I don't even know how they were taken. They are several images layered one atop the other-multiple multiple exposures of ill composed photos they have a sort of beauty after you look at them for a while. They remind me of the Beatles' White Album whose layered sounds can be discovered and rediscovered again and again upon each listen. I edited the pictures on Snapseed to enhance the layered images so one can actually see the subjects they photographed and to bring to the surface the texture and color in each photo. The results are absolutely stunning. I'd hang these on my wall any time.

 

a tree in greensburg

I sorta' became obsessed with this tree and photographed probably one time too many...with two separate cameras.  Its branches just stretched out so far away from itself, like it had been grasping at something just beyond its reach for a hundred years, never tiring, never giving up.  It's pretty awesome.  Shot with Canon AE-1, lomo lady grey film. 

city. view.

Downtown skyline of Fort Worth, Tx; circa Winter, 2013.  Shot with a Canon AE-1 and Lomography Lady Grey 35mm film.  Processed at Baron's Photografix, increased the contrast with Adobe Photoshop CS3.  Posted this morning on Blogger.com.  Taken from the North side view of downtown, more specifically, Yucca St. 

happy ever after :: polaroid

Shot on FB 3000b peel apart instant film and shot with a Polaroid 100 land camera.  Bride and her Groom, right before the ceremony.

iphoneography :: before the bride arrives

Shot this quickly at St. Aloysius Catholic Church before the wedding party arrived.  Edited on the back end using snapseed app.  Love it.