Coolest Rest Stop EVER!!

About 30 miles into Texas, we saw a sign for a rest stop. Nothing out of the ordinary there. We'd seen tons of signs for rest stops along the way. The thing that made this one different was that it advertised wireless internet. So Ray and I got all excited and stopped. The rest stop turned out to be the coolest ever. That's counting that fact that the internet was broken.

America from a truck, part 3

America from a truck, part 2

America from a truck, part 2

America from a truck, part 1

America from a truck, part 1

I had a lot of time to take photos out the window on this trip. At first I started trying to clean up the frame and keep the mirrors and the door out of the frame. Then I said, "screw that". These pictures are from a moving truck and that should show.

Captured by Robots at Kings

Captured by Robots at Kings

Here are a couple from the Captured by Robot show I went to with Arielle. It was an awesome show like the previous one I went to. One last concert before I left town.

Bottled Light

Bottled Light

I had my first assignment for them on Friday. I was making portraits of a lanscape architect at her house. It was an awesome house. She was putting bottles on the fence around the pool equipment. Definitely a very cool idea, along with everything else in the yard and house.

Black Eyed PPPP

Black Eyed PPPP

It was my first concert in a while. Pussy Cat Dolls sucks but looked good. The PPPP sounded much better but the crowd was pretty lame. Shooting a big concert is aways more fun than it should be for the time invested.

Cup a Joe's Bathroom

Cup a Joe's Bathroom

I was over there for coffee and stepped into the bathroom. The one light was almost completely out. What did I do? I pulled out my camera and started making dark as hell bathroom photos.

Easter Fire

Easter Fire

Saturday night we had an impromptu easter party. We finally got to light out burn pile which had been building up all winter.  After the fire started going full strength, the flames were easily 20 feet high. It turned out to be a really good night and the rope swing was the highlight.

CRG bout 1

CRG bout 1

Had the first CRG bout of the season. Light was horrible at the skate ranch, but I did my best. I can't wait until they play at Dorton Area. I'll actually be able to light it. That should make things interesting. I did get a break of nice light between periods 1 and 2.

Soccer Fans

Soccer Fans

I shot the US/Jamaica national team at SAS last night. Grant and Chris were there also. That freed me up so I didn't need to shoot any action, which I didn't. I just looked for cool features all game.

New Lens

New Lens

A while back I got a Nikon F3 and put a 50 on it to play. This was a much differenent way of shooting for me and I wanted to carry that over to digital so I sold my problematic 50mm f/1.4 lens. With the money I got, I bought a 35mm f/2.

Southern Short Course

Southern Short Course

Driving with Light

Driving with Light

I was heading over to Cary Academy to shoot a tempo and the light was kickin'. Several times I was driving looking though the viewfinder.

Faces

Faces

These are a couple photos I liked from the two rolls of black and white film I shot. My theme was "faces". I wanted to try to capture an aspect of the person in one tight shot of their face. Shooting with film was a lot of fun and was the catalyst for me to get a 35mm f/2. I want to shoot with this for a while so I'm forced to think diffferently about how I approach situations.

Cary Daily

Cary Daily