The results were..interesting...to be sure, but in general a positive experience...for me, anyway.
These are taken on all sorts of cameras, in all sorts of places, at all sorts of times of year and stages in my life. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all taken by me, and I guess I like most of them. They arent necessarily good, but that, of course, is rarely the point.
I'll probably write a little snippet about the photo, etc, because this is a blog where I talk about myself, and I like to do that.
This one was taken on the side of the road at a gas station in Utah, maybe, on the way down from Portland to Arizona in January of hmm...2006? It was taken, I believe, with my really really old Kodak that was still film based... Man, I wonder what happened to that thing?
That camera was so cool..it had this flip up thing that went over the 'lens', no settings at all, always used flash, and took decent photos.
Anyway, this has not been edited at all, and I really like it even though it was totally by chance..
The next three shots are all of slot canyons in Escalante National Monument in Utah, during my Epic Road Trip of 2007. Again, old Kodak, I think, and not retouched at all...
I love this next picture because it cracks me up. It depicts my friends Kira and Callie in a van during the road trip, and Callie, the Motherly One, is using tweezers to extract a cactus prickle from the roof of Kira's mouth, because Kira (the Adventurous One) decided to eat Prickly Pear pears somewhere on a dirt road outside of Strawberry Arizona...
I love the overzealous textural editing here...done just for fun. Ok, this one isn't taken by me, but it was with my camera. My friend Dan and I are reenacting "half of Abbey Road", or at least, that was Dan's intention. It doesn't look anything like Abbey Road to me, but I've never really been a Beatles person, so I'm not offended.
This one is Callie (from above), enjoying a lovely, stormy day on the Oregon Coast. This is when I did editing in Illustrator. "lol".
It makes me smile because Callie hikes with an umbrella more often than is normal...
A terrible blown out photo of the Colombia River Gorge, from almost the top of Hamilton Mountain. How I miss you, Oregon.
These are taken in Madurai, India in 2008 (I think). This was my first rickshaw ride in India, and I feel like this picture sums up the experience perfectly. It was wild and fast and very intense...Riding around at breakneck speed in this little open air cab thing on the back of a moped driven by a crazy Indian man with no traffic laws...
Also in Madurai, in some old palace. I love the colorful girls at the base. This isn't retouched at all, and I still like it...
Sometime a few years ago, a late night trip to the grocery store. This is a friend of mine holding "twenty bananas" after I had told him that if you eat twenty bananas, you'll apparently die from a potassium overdose. I have no idea if its true, or if he really has twenty bananas in his arms. All I know is, I really hate bananas and this pictures cracks me up.
Back on the Epic Road Trip. This is a terrible picture of me, and I love it, because this is taken 30 seconds after I made it to the rim of the Grand Canyon after hiking in and out in two days.
And I am triumphant.
I am also wearing my Explorer Shorts, which is most likely the only reason I made it out alive.
Early August, 2007.
Taken in early December of 2008. I borrowed the Architecture School's DSLR and took it out for a spin. I wasn't overly impressed at first but with a little work, came to really love the thing.
Now if only I could afford my own...
The same camera, several months later. Taken on top of an abandoned McDonald's restaurant in Sandusky Ohio. I was tired of sitting in a hotel room and set out to explore instead.
Taken with a Canon EOS30D.
Also Sandusky Ohio, also an abandoned building, but this one is a farmhouse on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie.
A parking structure, empty.
Back in Ann Arbor, a building in passing.
Bicycles on the front porch of Valhalla, my house several years ago.
That appears to be all I've set aside for now.
I'm working on some pictures from the end of October, gearing up for the cold season and generally cooking too many things with pumpkin. Seriously...too much pumpkin.
It might snow tomorrow. eeeek! I'm not ready!
Really, though, I'm never ready.
