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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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.
[Read More]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:
[Read More]Yeah, I know I only seem to be posting photos these days, but hey, at least I’m posting something . . . Here are some pictures from the 2010 State Fair of Oklahoma:
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So this year for my birthday, I got an awesome present. My girlfriend got us tickets to the Pixies at the Brady Theater, not to mention a room at historic Mayo Hotel and a little yellow sports car to drive up Route 66 for the show. Here is my gallery from the concert:
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Now that 12x12 is over, here are my favorite pictures from my Fred Jones Building photo shoot:
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It’s been about two years since I had been in Chicago and it was great to see the old town again. This time there was no specific event to attend, so Grace and I lived it up as a couple of true tourists doing all those things I never really did when I lived there, such as the boat tours, Navy Pier and Second City. It was a wonderful trip with wonderful company . . .
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