Meditation At 5,000 Feet

I went to visit my parents in Washington at the beginning of this month. It was a lovely time that involved a lot of naps on the couch while watching the Olympics.

When I did leave the house, it was usually with Kirsten to go run/hike/bike or canoe in the surrounding area. Most of the mountain pictures are on Larch Mountain and the water stuff is the Willamette, one of the rivers that runs through Portland. I had the best run of my short career at Forest Park in Portland, but I was too busy navigating cut backs to take any pictures.

These were all taken on my cheap Fuji digital. It was the day on Larch Mountain that convinced me to buy some old cameras from eBay. I had been thinking about it for quite a while, but trying to take pictures of the spiked leaves and the tree bridges with no focus control was that final moment. A few of these turned out good.


Kirsten In A Cloud


Mike In A Tree


August "Crazy Talk" Snow, Undisputed Snow Champion


Tree Bridge To Somewhere

Tree Bridge To Nowhere

Spiked Leaves



Veni, Vidi, Vici

These were houseboats that were floated on the water.

This one was my favorite. Sushi Roll House.

Feel The Love

I've been taking pictures of Kirsten all week, annoying her every few minutes by asking her to lean one way or the other. Well, Rachel came to town, so now I get to annoy both of them.

Our friends Mac & Brenda came with Kirsten & I to pick up Rachel from Penn Station. It's not far from my place, so we all took a lovely NYC evening walk about and I got to play with my new toy.

I finished the roll this morning at the Farmer's Market in Union Square, the first stop on our raw food adventure today.

Shot on the Vivitar, deep focus lens.

Brenda Is Fucking Awesome


Chelsea At Night

Midtown At Night

Rachel With Flowers

Kirsten had just made her first comment about my annoying her, a nano-second after I asked Rachel to stand by the flowers.




Diner 1 & 2

Rachel In Diner

Sisters


Let There Be Graff

Yum

The Best Thing I've Ever Smelled

Went to another xmas tree farm on Friday, this one the actual location for the commercial shoot. We were humping trees and going on water runs for most of the day, but I managed to sneak off and shoot the two produce trucks that apparently were used to take fruits and vegetables to local farmer's markets. They're just symbols now, signs of the productivity of this piece of Earth and the people who have walked on it. They looked cool.

I made a mistake Friday, absentmindedly popping the back cover of the camera open before I had spooled the film back into the canister. I thought maybe I could save part of the roll, but I couldn't get the crank to engage the roll again after I'd pulled it. Dumb mistake. I lost the first set of pictures of the blue truck, when it was early morning, the sun was at a much sharper angle and there was still dew on the windows. I was able to reproduce the photos, with different conditions.

I also lost shots of the sunflowers. I was able to reproduce them too, except that there was a bee on the foreground flower when I shot it the first time, but not the second. Uncooperative models...

The best moment of the entire day, though, was getting in a cube truck filled with 30 xmas trees at 6 am. It was The Best Smell In The History Of Noses.

Shot on the Vivitar with the regular lens, no filter.





No I Did Not

Check out that awesome PHone #






Light 1, 2 & 3



Going up...

Christmas in July

Is it July? I don't think it's July. Whatever.

I went to a Christmas tree farm today to pick up 30 xmas trees for a commercial I'm working on. Couldn't begin to guess what they're for, but that's because I don't care that much about these types of jobs anymore. C'est la vie.

POINT IS, I took some pictures, because that's what I'm obsessed with right now. I could have taken 100 shots at this place easy, but Anton was antsy after 1 roll. He's not as obsessed with my photos as I am, if you can imagine that.

So, here's today's roll. Shot on the 1975 Vivitar with the regular lens, filter off, and with the wide angle.


Remember To Look Both Ways

Wood

Sign


Red Cage #1 & 2

Sliver

Thresh Metal

Lighter Than Air




Anton #1 & 2