Barnesville, GA - cold and rainy Halloween 2009
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Hampton Roads Editor
Sometimes I just ramble on IM, while waiting for servers to reboot or whatever. It passes the time. This is a conversation with Justin D - notice that he never responded (he was marked away) and how it’s three different times I rambled.
(10:52:06 PM) Joe Sleeper: four seasons only [...]
It’s been a while, I’m still alive and well.
This is cool:
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.
[...]This is something that I rarely do, shoot people in a studio setting. A couple of weeks ago while in Washington, NC taking a few days off we did a photo shoot of Carrie, who had never modeled before. This session was the first of probably many for another project. [...]
I carry bunches of these pills everywhere that I go, I have to take a couple every time I eat. They help my body digest food, something it cannot do by itself. Without them, painful [...]
Seen at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco while I was there for a conference last week. Somehow I think that this is my favorite image from the trip - I didn’t take many as I was really [...]
Today I went to Ocean Salvage junk yard with some other members of the Virginia Beach Photo Club. We met up at 8 in the morning, complete with models for shooting, and had a blast. [...]
I woke up with stomach problems (better now) so I ended up working from home today. This is what it looks like, warts and all.
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In case anybody didn’t see this in my Flickr from last weekend, I really like this image I took. I only wish that the shoe was red.
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Not only has Justin released the Men of Letters album this summer but he’s also been gigging more with local musicians. I saw him play in Williamsburg last week with Billy Thompson. What a [...]
My pals Justin Dohrmann and Brett Miller, who went to college together, have been working on what Justin calls an “unusual project”. I’ll just go ahead and quote Justin here:
Men of Letters is an unusual project I’ve been working on with my friend Brett Miller. [...]
Everybody’s work seems to have one. Some good, some bad. Some cool and inviting, some hot and sweaty. Some just plain weird.
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I’m reading Scott Kelby’s book “The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers” that Aunt Gwyn and Uncle Phillip gave me for my birthday. I switched from using Apple [...]
Citizens for Sound played at Scotty Quixx, which should be renamed to Scotty Candlelights - it was one of the darkest places I’ve shot. I took a bunch of pictures of [...]
For those of you who really know me you know that for most of my life I didn’t think I’d make it to 30. Most of the stupid things I’ve done is because of this [...]
Came down to Washington to hang out with my Mom today - good weather, good times!
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I almost forgot - it’s that time of year again. Moustache May is a month-long celebration of the moustache. It’s a rather silly thing, but it’s fun - I’ve met a lot of cool [...]
Last night I was finally able to scan the slides from Justin and Kim’s wedding with the film I used in the YashicaMat 124G camera. While they didn’t come out exactly as I envisioned I think that they have a certain quality to them that you don’t see too often [...]
It was the second day of second grade a little over twenty years ago. At the bus-stop waiting for the bus to take us to Ocean View Elementary School I saw someone familiar. A redheaded kid who [...]
Yesterday Slumdog Millionaire was released on DVD. The great service Netflix delivered it to me today. I somehow missed this in theaters, didn’t hear much about it until everyone was hearing everything about it. Here’s a short review by a non-movie critic.
The movie started off kind of slow. I wasn’t [...]
Since I didn’t catch a first dance at the small wedding, or even remember if they had one, I’ll post this one. Drew and Crystal had a reception in Kinston, NC where Crystal is from - this happened a week ago. [...]
Here’s a TED talk on some wearable technology that excites me a whole lot. Ever since seeing Minority Report I dreamed of seeing this kind of thing made a reality. I must have said “sick” at least a dozen times while watching this.
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While I was in Roanoke I bought a Sharan 35mm pinhole camera, which needs to be put together - that takes about two hours. I took some photos with it there, none of them were impressive.
Today I took it [...]
This is how I would visually describe how my stomach feels right now, torn up near the top and a bunch of crap at the bottom.
[...]For quite some time I’ve had my eye on these little houses just north of Washington, NC - I just haven’t had the chance to photograph them at the right time. Yesterday afternoon as I was driving home to Virginia I had my chance. I was very tired and wanted [...]
Washington, NC - GREAT Mexican food. Try it out. On Highway 17 right near the Highway 264 intersection.
[...]I’ve been wanting to get better at my post processing of photos lately. I do think I’ve gotten better, but haven’t grown as quickly in that area as I have with taking the photograph initially. Maybe I’m developing my eye, I dunno. I haven’t been shooting much lately, too much [...]
I came to Roanoke for work this week, was supposed to leave yesterday. Turns out I’m staying another week so that gives me this (cold) weekend to kill some time. I’d say it was a full day, from getting up at 5:45am to the incredible nap in the afternoon. What [...]
From a small series of bad photographs I took for a friend that I sent to another friend to use for something or other.
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My cousin Jen (cousin-in-law if you wanna be technical about it) turned 30 yesterday - the first of many (myself included) folks that I know that are hitting this milestone this year. I was in a filmy [...]
In order for my top post on this site not to be sad (the Harvey post), wish everyone a new year, and to post some cool images I took last weekend, I thought I’d put this.
Last weekend it was very foggy in Washington, NC. Anyone with a camera should never [...]
You’ll be missed. The whole time I was at my parents’ house over Christmas break Harvey was sick, urinary track problems. This morning they took him to the vet to see if they can help. They said that they could, but [...]
This is my Mom’s van that they got earlier this year to cart all her pottery to shows and events. I think that it needs to be glazed and fired.
Took this on my Holga with the first [...]
There’s a name for when people place photos/pictures side by side as one - this almost looks as if I had done that with the two adjoining buildings with the evenly placed barrels. What is that called? Anybody?
This is [...]
I joined Flickr in May of 2007, took this long to upload 1,000 photos. I must say it’s a great site - so many inspiring photos and photographers. I have learned so much from that site and the folks in certain groups. Here is my 1,000th image:
This morning as I was waiting in line at the local 7-11 with my bottle of water and trail mix to snack on during morning work hours, something made me giggle - and giggle a lot.
The woman in front of me in line was getting a money order printed. To [...]
Last night I went to the 3rd Annual One Love Festival, presented by the Hampton Roads Network for Non-Violence to take photos of the event. One of my friends in the local photo club got an [...]
You’d think that with the many years on this earth, he’d be wise enough not to make a funny face with his son sitting next to him with a big camera in his lap. But alas, he [...]
One benefit I’ve found of going to the gym directly from work is I can go home afterward, do nothing, and not feel guilty about it.
I’ve lightened my workload at work, mainly because I haven’t been giving myself time to take care of myself. Exercise and eating like I should [...]
I’m on kind of a tour of campus locations for my company - have been out of town since last Wednesday and will return home [...]
I forgot where I got the idea, but I wanted to do a collaboration with somebody where I take a roll of film on my Holga, wind it back as if it has not been exposed and send the roll to somebody to take the [...]
I wore glasses for many years, from the time I was 15 or so until 2005 - the year I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer all the time. For the past year or so I’ve been needing to get some again, my eyes get very fatigued and most [...]
Ars Technica published an interesting article yesterday talking about how the internet works, how is in how your computer connected to your ISP is able to connect to machines (websites) anywhere else in the world connected to the internet.
Interesting read, not too technical.
On Saturday I went to Portsmouth with a couple folks from the VB Photoclub for a photowalk. What fun! I had my Holga 120N and my EOS 3 35mm cameras in tow. I tried out Fuji Astia 100F slide [...]
I finally got of of my arse and updated the software that runs this site. I also changed the sidebar to give me more width to be able to place larger images on the posts. I’m seriously thinking of doing away with the site as it is and setting it [...]
A quick snapshot of some crap I got at Goodwill can satisfy my photo craving for a day! Cool. Although I’m going to Portsmouth in a few to meet some other local photographers to just be out taking pictures.
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This is my first try at overlaying a texture on an image in Photoshop - might be some future possibilities there. Also - this is one of the first photos I’ve taken of a bunch of crap (three bagfuls, [...]
I really love my Holga. Got some Ilford FP4+ black and white, needed to run some of that through it.
[...]Now that I have a scanner that can scan negatives I’ll be rescanning a few of my older Holga shots - not a lot and mostly redoing if I want to use them elsewhere or get some of them printed.
Here’s what I did this morning:
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At the beginning of the year I joined The Virginia Beach Photo Club, a great group of folks and a club with an active schedule and a lot to offer. This month I’m fortunate enough to be the member who is written about in the monthly newsletter - something [...]
Another one jumped out at me. I have one more roll to scan, then choose which shots out of a certain series need to be scanned (which I’m going to take to camera shop to use their light table since there [...]
I’m still working on scanning film from my trip - this image jumped out at me. I was in Union Park, with fading light and trees blocking that little bit of light. On top of this I had ISO [...]
This is very cool to me. I’ve been acquiring quite a few old cameras, and every time I do I daydream about where it’s been, who owned it, and what it saw.
A couple weeks ago [...]
Me in China Town
Checking out slides I just got back on the light table at Duggal Visual Solutions, [...]
JPG Magazine is a great publication which I’ve gotten into. They have a great website where folks upload photos, stories and photo essays which get voted on and that’s how things make it into the magazine. [...]
Drew took this photo.
Drew and I left the ‘hood around 1 in the afternoon to hit the J then the Q headed to Coney Island. What a crazy place! I’ll have photos soon I [...]
Your E-6 processing is in.
That’s all I needed to hear. Today I went to the photo lab where I dropped off my first roll of slide film to get processed last week. [...]
yo fam i was about to go out with my homeys and i was looking tight! gonna go to tha club and pick up some sweeties.
look yall:
yo my outfit wuz bangin.
but yo check this out - my moms said i can’t impress the ladies without [...]
I’m down in Washington, NC this weekend. They weren’t going to have fireworks here, because of the dryness and all the wildfires already happening in the area, but they figured it was [...]
Sometimes film does funny things that you cannot explain or duplicate. Most of the time those things are awesome.
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Citizens for Sound are really sounding good, they’ve got enough original material now that they are playing on Thursday nights at Ocean View Fishing Pier. If you are there, don’t get in the way of the [...]
Piss
Several weeks ago I was leaving work for lunch and saw this bottle of piss in the parking lot. I had one of my polaroid cameras on me so I had to get a photo. I was cleaning house [...]
(35mm photo since my Minolta Hi-Matic 9 was the only camera with film in it that I had with me)
I’ve kept up with The Handwritten Word so far. Today I finished Genesis! I actually [...]
A really good friend of mine had graduation yesterday - it also happened that his daughter was graduating right along with him! As a gift I offered to do a portrait session. Using a borrowed backdrop kit (Thanks Tom!) and two strobes firing into white umbrellas I got to [...]
I kind of enjoyed making this photo for Moustache May.
I might go as far as doing some impressionistic painting-style portraits in the coming days…
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