We have real progress! The crane has been up for the past two week and they have begun the foundation work. Here is the slide show – it begins with the newest images…
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting weekly images of the Jacobson Building construction project. Don’t worry! I have been taking pictures (almost) every week but decided not to do a weekly post.
They are 20 weeks into the project and still in the dirt (rock) stage… Continue reading
Come check out my picture “Vicarious Mustache”, which won an Honorable Mention at the Minneapolis Photo Center’s Exhibit: Off the Cuff!!
This year we spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with the usual crowd plus an additional eight (yes, that’s 14 total!). The Bay Area is a fantastic place and we definitely had a good time- save for having to take the following Tuesday off of work due to a nasty cold that I’m still trying to get over.
While in San Francisco we mostly ate fantastic food and sampled a number of beverages (as was the norm in Chicago) but did manage to get out and about enough to snap some pictures. We even made it out to Lafayette to visit the Windhurst clan; but I didn’t have my camera with. Continue reading
My image “Vicarious Mustache” has been selected out of over 1100 submitted images as an Honorable Mention in the Minneapolis Photo Center’s exhibit “Off the Cuff: The Spontaneous and Unrehearsed”. The selected images will be on exhibit at the MPC from January 20th to February 26th, 2011.
The juror for this exhibit is Madeline Yale. Continue reading
I have a couple Polaroid cameras, including the legendary folding SX-70 Land camera and the much less spectacular The Button Land camera (they are both technically sx-70 series but you get the point). I get film for both from the Impossible Project: Silver Shade for The Button, and Color Shade for the SX-70. I keep them separated because the Silver Shade doesn’t eject properly from the SX-70 but works great in The Button; so I figured I might as well just keep The Button for B&W and the SX-70 for color.
I haven’t yet gotten used to either film but especially not the Silver Shade; it’s all very finicky stuff but does lend itself well for “artistic” shots. I quotified artistic because it seems that anytime a vintage filter is applied to a photo these days it automatically becomes “artistic”. These are just normal pictures using a vintage camera.
Here are the test shots using the Color Shade film that I scanned in for the digital world. I won’t post any Silver Shade until I get something useful. Continue reading
