First series taken with my new camera, the Panasonic G1. I was doing a shoot in my home and we had her sillhouetted against the window when we realized there was a fire truck in the lonely subdivision on the other side of the park. I asked her to go outside and look at the truck through the top of a broken picket in the back fence. She was a trooper and did so, even though it was windy and cold! I love the pose and the reverse voyeur feeling of the nude looking over the fence at the fire truck.
Today you get a double treat of tattoos at the fair!
I noticed the black straps surrounding the tattoo and was intrigued by the writing that was only partially showing. I asked her if I could take a photo and she was very happy to allow it.
‘Wings at the Fair’
I gave her my card and told her if she needed any other photography to give me a call. Her friend piped up and they were from out of town, working one of the booths in the expo building selling shammies I think.
But she said she gets around so she would keep my card, just in case.
I was eating my required fair meal of italian sausage and notice this couple talking at the table in front of me.
The guy was clingy, wrapping his arms around her again and again, kissing her cheek and generally seeming to want to possess her. She on the other hand simply sat there eating and talking, never once turning to him.
The wind blew her hair and I notice the star tattoo. I went up and asked her if I could take a photo of it and the guy butted in and answered quickly and authoritatively, ‘sure you can’. I looked to her and she said ‘yes’.
I later saw them walking towards the parking lot and he still had her wrapped up in his arms. It didn’t seem to be a good type of wrapping.
This collage combines two photos from a shoot I did with a fellow co-worker at the Restaurant where I worked. The color images in the background of the framed image are of the SF bay on one side and of the Nevada desert on the other.
‘A Woman Looking at Herself’, photo-collage
There had been a photo of a nude male on the wall in that location and I originally posed her to be looking at it. But it seemed tacky and I didn’t really like the photo of the guy so I decided to put an image of my own in its place.
Last in the series of Color Compositions taken in June, 2008 at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market in Tulsa, OK. Next week it’s all about the USA!
I like this one a lot due to the bag being right down the middle of the image. I have been working on a REALLY old laptop since January 08 and I have been doing the color based on that monitor. Now I am on my new computer and I realize how many of my images are oversaturated. But in this case I think I like it!
Another Color Composition in my week+ long series. This one was taken mostly because her blue strap was so beautiful running across her purple shirt. The black shirt with the orange stripes in the distance is the perfect counterpoint to balance it out. I tried a version with the orange stripes cropped out and it was not nearly as interesting.
Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, 6/14/08, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Second in a week long series showing drawings I have done in church over the years. By the way, if you like my blog, the art, drawings, photos, etc. Then feel free to comment.
This page was filled with questions that I answered by using letter press letters (the old fashion way, before digital, of graphic designing text with fonts). The model and I were at the beach in Santa Cruz, California and I took close ups of her against a cliff to collage. These were from the proof sheet that was made of the shots.
