Busy Summer...

The summer is coming to an end - it has just flown by so quick! I have been so busy I can't believe that it is over... wow! 

So much I have wanted to do but just no time - some shoots, some art, underwater photography... But it has been a good and very productive summer!  -- I spent most of it working with another artist, Fatemeh Burnes -- And recently I have started working for both the Pedersen Projects and Mt. San Antonio Art Gallery. Working on prepping the galleries for the upcoming shows - moving walls, painting, ect. They look amazing and can't wait to start to hang the artwork! I also have been working on recreating my logo. I'm in the process of a total revamp of my public image. So it is pretty exciting but busy! 

Today was one of the first real days that I had time to work on artwork. I have been finding it difficult to bring together all my concepts and ideas of the processes I want to mix into a piece. but on the up side.... I realized an idea for creating textures - A problem that I haven't been able to figure out how to paint them the way that I want.... So today I got a chance to do some test painting techniques. I'm already excited about the way it has turned out so far... I am going to have to try it some more to see about if it will really work out the way that I am hoping... 

I think that I have one more super busy week of summer ahead of me and then I think that my time to do more artwork and shoots will open up...  ... hopefully! hahaha

Love the Ocean!

Took another break while working in Laguna -- Just checking out if I could go in the water to do some of that underwater photography... BUT.... the waves were a LITTLE more then what I wanted to deal with - with an underwater camera! HAHAHA

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New Abstract Photography

I always love shooting things that reminds me of abstract paintings - I was working for a friend of mine and had to take out the camera for a few minutes!!  Here are two of my favorites from that lil camera play. I like that they have a kinda painterly feel to them... 

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Shooting Deer

I had a shoot yesterday - Went out in nature and was walking with the model thru the hills and suddenly heard a bunch of noise...  I looked up and there was deer racing across the hilside. One stopped and just started to watch us. I quietly grabbed my camera and started getting a few shots. I had seen different wild life there - even a huge owl, but this was my first time to see deer - it was very cool! 

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Underwater Test Shots

I decided to finally do the test shots -- VERY EXCITING! -- buttttt the only thing is when I got out of the pool (the second test) I noticed that there was a few drops of water that had leaked... =/

When I read about the return policy it said that it was covered UNTIL you put it in water!!! - What the heck?! hahaha Anyway I think that it will be ok - at least for a while... I want to do some modeled shots... But at this rate... I just have no time!  But keep an eye out for them... Hopefully before the end of summer! 

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Just For Today...

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My Interest in old film/ cameras

Today I was thinking about my early photographic experiences...

I remember being around maybe at the oldest 6 yrs old and my parents helped me load a polaroid and then I got to shoot ONE shot... but then after begging I got to shoot a second... and then waiting and watching as the image came to life... it was so exciting!!! I wanted to shoot some more but then they said no - and I think that my grandma let me then shoot a few shots of her camera that took 110 film! It wasn't as cool... but that was better then not shooting at all! She tried to tell me how to look thru it and i just loved clicking the big square button. I think that later they took out the film and let me "shoot" alllll I wanted! A few years later it was the same kinda camera that became my first camera I'd own. 

When I was young my mom use to go and get film developed... She would drive up to a lil booth that was in the middle of the parking lot - I use to think that they had an underground building that had secret stairs that lead below the small booth! hahaha -- It might have been just from something that the lady that took the film said... maybe something like "I'll take it down there today" - or something like that that made me think BELOW the booth. I can remember the multiple boxes of film that sat in the windows for people to buy- and the large colorful Polaroid boxes...  --There was just an excitement that I got from seeing the pics. And maybe just how weird it seemed - like magic... you take this thing - this role in and a few days later WHAM you have a bunch of pictures.

So now that I am older... I think that part of me just has that connection to playing with them as a kid. In the past the film was too expensive for me... limited me from getting to shoot that often.... and now as an adult the film is either discontinued or kinda expensive - so I think that it still holds that limitation/ a feeling of being LUCKY to shoot with it... Besides that it is more of an Artist tool now which appeals to that creative experimental childlike side of me.

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