Lucas T. Digman

Mayo Clinic Jacobson Building Update: Week 26

Luke — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:16:06 +0000

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…

Mayo Clinic Jacobson Building: Week 20 Update

Luke — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:13:47 +0000

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…

Check out the slideshow with progress up through week 20 (January 26, 2012):

Off the Cuff – Minneapolis Photo Center Exhibit

Luke — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:12:33 +0000

Come check out my picture “Vicarious Mustache”, which won an Honorable Mention at the Minneapolis Photo Center’s Exhibit: Off the Cuff!!

Thanksgiving In San Francisco

Luke — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:15:33 +0000

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.

My favorite photos were captured on the Alcatraz night tour. Though I’ve visited the area a number of times I hadn’t yet been to Alcatraz. If you have the chance I really do recommend hitting the night tour; you get some spectacular views of San Francisco and the surrounding area plus the boat takes you around the entire island before docking, whereas the normal day tour just goes straight to the pier.

These images are available for sale in my Anthroscapes portfolio.

Here is a slideshow of pictures from the rest of the trip – if you are interested…

Vicarious Mustache

Luke — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:11:20 +0000

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.

According to the MPC, Madeline Yale:

…is an independent curator and photography specialist based in Dubai and London. She has produced over 30 exhibitions on photography and related media in the UAE, UK, and USA, where she served as Executive Director and Adjunct Curator for the Houston Center for Photography (HCP) from 2006-2010. She is a consultant to auction houses in the Middle East and London, contributes to several publications on art and photography including Contemporary Practices, Art Dubai Journal, and is on the Editorial Board for HCP’s spot magazine. Yale holds a MA in Photographic Studies and is a PhD candidate at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.

This shot is of Kirsten and features Dusten’s mustache. The whole thing was very spur of the moment and “off the cuff”. It was taken at Jake’s Dive Bar in Breckenridge CO during Stache Bang 2011 – I’m looking forward to more shenanigans at SB 2012.

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Playing with Polaroids

Luke — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:27:51 +0000

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.