Category Archives: with Photos
Saguaro Cacti
I’ve always seen images of Saguaro cacti but never really knew much about them but during my trip out to Scottsdale, I found out that they only flower for a few weeks each year and was lucky enough to be here during that time. These are the iconic cacti that you see in Southwestern imagery and it’s actually on the newly minted Arizona quarter.
Birthday
A few from my birthday when we went out to the beach…
Darla
Here’s the first test shot from our shoot. I’ve decided to create a “First Shots” category since I find I often like my random first test shots which often aren’t composed or even taken from the angle/location I mean to for the actual shoot. This was taken to make sure the PocketWizard was firing, but I kinda like how it turned out…
Music: Amiina
I’ve been doing a good job of keepin my personal resolution to try and see more live music and enjoy more arts related experiences this year. Last night I went and checked out Amiina who had previously opened for Sigur Ros. The show was at the Swedish American Music Hall and was my first at that venue which is pretty neat (right above Cafe Du Nord).
Before we went to Lucky 13 for a few drinks and afterwards hit up The Page and then Molotovs before a preventative slice at Mythic Pizza…
The Japanese Internment
I found out about this old Dr. Suess cartoon from World War II while reading a book about photographer Dorothea Lange and her work during the internment of Japanese Americans. I have always been fascinated by that part of American history being an Asian American of partial Japanese heritage. I was surprised though that even Dr. Suess was on the bandwagon of paranoia about the Japanese during that time. Ansel Adams and Lange also were at odds with Lange being one of the few on the side of the Japanese Americans and seeing the civil liberties of Americans being taken away. The book is called Impounded.
x-ray photography
My teeth:
Bowling
Here’s me bowling…
Collin Fischer
I had the fortune of running into Collin Fischer at the Arnold this year and we shot during the weekend. She had pretty much disappeared from the scene after she turned pro, but looks tremendous still. We’re looking to set up more time to do another shoot so I am definitely looking forward to that.
Driving across Florida
I was stuck on the I-4 Westbound today crawling at about 15 mph and looked up and saw this in the sky:
I’m not sure what it was for or if it had something to do with why the traffic was so ridiculously slow but I had to whip out my camera and grab a shot of it…