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
In a recent post I shared a photo created using a Photoshop technique I learned from a now forgotten YouTube user. I’ve made a short video explaining the technique I’m using and refining to get that older metallic print look. Here are a few of the photos I’ve created using the technique – you’ll find the video after those…
I just today was told that five of my images will be a part of the Northern Spark Art Festival in Minneapolis….and I didn’t even submit any – well, that’s not completely true. I did submit the photos to the Minneapolis Photo Center’s call for entries for their Early Morning, After Dark exhibit. I didn’t make the juried cut for the show, considering the pics didn’t really fit into the theme all that well, but the MPC did like the photos enough for Northern Spark, which is cool.
The Minneapolis Photo Center will have an exhibit located under the Central Bridge Overpass – crazy, right? Images from many local photographers will be shown in a slide show on the concrete wall of the overpass for festival goers to view. My photos were all shot using the iPhone 3GS for a grainy unfinished look and were meant to portray a sort of grogginess associated with early morning or late night… Continue reading
A common spring time scene in the Midwest – at least in Minnesota – are muddy neighborhood ice rinks. A sign the season is over…lets hope it doesn’t snow again.
Added to my Anthroscapes gallery.
