What a week

Another week has gone by and I am another year older (but, rest assured, no wiser). I’ve spent most of the time since the last post chained to my nasty, old desk however said desk now resides comfortably ensconced within the confines of a newly painted and air conditioned office. This is a big change for me as the old office (what will be our new guest room) had no air conditioning, unless you count century old windows.

So now my office is, rather than the center from which all pains emanates, now it’s a pleasure palace that is, at the touch of a button, seventy-two lovely degrees.

Aaaaahhhh.

As I mentioned above, it’s been a week of mostly office work. In that time I’ve completed a number of lingering and a handful of new projects that had built up. It’s always nice to finish off office work (which is usually design and layout work but sometimes veers off in interesting directions) and get back out shooting.

I went out yesterday morning at dawn just to get out. I walked down to the Convention Center and then walked around it to get some shots in the morning light. I was hoping for good clouds and sadly, there were hardly any (who complains about there not being clouds?).

Below are a few shots from that walk. Here’s the complete gallery.

And here are two videos. Both are montages of images I’ve shot. I love putting these together. It’s a lot of fun and a completely different way to work with my photographs. I also get to have some fun with music. Fans of my favorite television show, Deadliest Catch, will recognize the riffs I ripped from them in the Sertoma Video.

2008 Sertoma BBQ…

Here are the galleries that contain all the Sertoma images from this year (and when I say all I mean there are more than 800 images in all of the galleries).
Friday morning
Friday afternoon
Friday from midnight to Saturday morning at three a.m.
Saturday from three a.m. to 6:30 a.m.
Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

All of which leads to this…

Video for Building Character, a local retailer (which is a gross understatement, they do a lot of really cool things)…

Here is the gallery that most of the Building Character images came from.

Here are a few of the shots by themselves…

July 31, 2008 | Filed Under new work | Leave a Comment

Different work

It’s interesting how my work seems to run in cycles. There will be weeks when I’ll do nothing but photography and then times when I’m dying to get out and shoot because I’ve been chained to the computer to design work. And for the record, I’m always dying to shoot. As much as I love the marketing and design end of the business, I’m happiest with camera in hand. Nonetheless, the last two weeks has had me deep into half a dozen design projects. I can’t mention them or show them here, yet, but I will once they are closer to completion.

For now, let’s get caught up on the photography end of things.

I’m doing some design work for JSID part of which had me shooting images of their new office. Here is a photoshopped version of one shot of that building I did just for fun.

Lydia Brubaker from the Seventh Sister Theater Company is holding a summer acting camp and F&M and I’ll be stopping there to shoot the progress of the class. It’s wonderful to watch as I have some small and indirect connection with some of the theater games she’s employed in the course. Her students all seem very enthusiastic and have been quite nice. Here are a few shots from the first installment of that project.

And finally, F&M hired me to shoot portraits of one of their professors, geology and Earth Sciences Professor Carol De Wet. Being a Geologist she’s a rock star in my world (since i was kid I’ve had this obsession with geology). She was an utter delight to chat with and I’m really proud of the shots. I think F&M is happy as well which is the best possible result. Here are a couple of my faves from that session.

July 23, 2008 | Filed Under company news, new in the Flickr Gallery, personal | Leave a Comment

New things to do

Right now, before you even scroll down, click on this link and buy tickets to the Ghostlight Theater Company’s production of “City of Angels”. I’ve been lucky enough to sneak into a few of the rhersals and catch some quick snaps and the show is great. Lancaster could use an alternative theater and this first Tony Award winning musical from Ghostlight portends great things.

For now, enjoy a few images (click here and here to see my complete rehearsal shot galleries) from the rehearsals but do pick up some tickets for “City of Angel’s” running all this month and early August.