Last of the Lake Hefner pictures for a while, but the lake does figure a lot into my day-to-day life. One of the best parts of my day is my cool off from the ride into work. This is the view I get to enjoy as I get ready to get down to work . . .
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The martian landscape of Lake Hefner continues to provide photographic opportunities. Today, I caught the world’s largest zeppelin, The Farmers Airship, taking a lap around the lake. The airship is on a cross-country tour with a day stop off here in the city before heading off to Texas. You can get more details here.
The scissor-tailed flycatcher ground art in the foreground is a project of the architecture firm upstairs from us, Rees Associates.
[Read More]So I am so far behind on my photos it hurts, but it is a hobby I am interested in getting back into in a major way, so expect to see more soon. In any case, below are some shots from the Walkmen/Fleet Foxes show from last night and from a trip to the grocery store today.
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So today is my 35th birthday and it’s on one’s birthday that you start seeking new projects. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with this site for quite some time. I’m still thoroughly bored with politics and I’m not really any the mood to rant about much else these days. The only thing I’ve missed lately is photography so I’ve decided to take on my own personal Project 365 and figured this site is the best place to host it. So for those looking for rants and ravings, sorry, you will instead get photos and more photos.
OK, I have to admit it, for a long time, Hipstamatic really annoyed me. I think it was because I first learned photography several years before digital photography came into its own and as such, I learned how to do things the hard way. The effects that Hipstamatic and similar pieces of software produce used to take hours in the darkroom and as such, I felt it was cheating. I remember working for hours on creating and painting custom emulsions, doing large-scale negative to negative enlargements for special contact print effects and dozens of other labor intensive processes to achieve effects that can now be done in minutes. Of course, all of that is really silly. Art must, in the end, be judged by the final product not the process. I know this may start an unrelated argument, but if I have to know how a piece of art was made in order to appreciate it, then the work is not complete. In any case, I’ve been using Photoshop for years to fine tune contrast, perform burn-and-dodge processing and the like with no similar feelings of guilt even though even those changes would take several tries and a lot of darkroom time. As I’ve seen more and more excellent photos coming out of Hipstamatic, I’m starting to get over my old fogey feelings about it.
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Office Light, originally uploaded by RadicalWacko.
Grace and I along with Gwen and Mercedes attended the Flaming Lips New Year’s Eve Freakout last night. I only had my camera phone which isn’t the best of cameras, but here are a few snapshots plus a video from a pretty amazing show:
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So, with the help of my wonderful girlfriend Grace, I’ve been setting up makeshift photo booths at a variety of social events with friends and family. The picture quality isn’t usually great, but the captures are often fantastic. From the first shot which is usually a little stiff to the fourth shot when people have really loosened up, it’s a fun portrait exercise.
In any case, here are the results of these booth experiments:
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