As much as I enjoyed shooting last night and editing photos until late in the evening, I was exhausted today but still wanted to run amok in historic Longview and see some of the arts! I ended up mainly chatting up artists, briefly reuniting with friends, oogling other photographers work, and looking down back alleys […]
Longview Poet’s Society (October 6th, 2021)
Everything I know about poetry pretty much comes from Redd Foxx and Andrew Dice Clay, which isn’t to say I can’t appreciate poetry… I’m just not inclined to be able to do more than listen and know what I like. Regardless! I do like Brendon, I’ve known him for quite some time, longer than anyone […]
Coming Home
This was the last photo I took from our vacation, watching the sunrise in Walsenburg Colorado.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
The second trail we hit in Colorado was absolutely gorgeous, but a lot more challenging (well for me who has never really “hiked” before. I’ve been on flatland trails in quite a few states but never on the sides of mountains or in valleys, it’s stunningly gorgeous and I can’t wait to go back!
Ouray Colorado
We did our first hike in Ouray at Box Canyon Park, Perimeter Trail was short but stunningly gorgeous but a bit scary for anyone that’s terrified of heights, which my wife is. But after that we spent the rest of the afternoon walking through up and down Main Street and looking at the same Poop […]
Silverton Colorado
We took Red Mountain Pass into Silverton and it’s a gorgeous drive!
Big Bend National Park
Zoe and I went on our first vacation, our first camping trip, and our first long-distance road trip with friends who invited us to go camping with them and their family! I got to try my hand at astrophotography for the first time!
Assassination City Roller Derby
First bout of 2020, things have been super weird with folks getting sick at work, but we moved to work at home (which is how I’ve worked for the past ten years until working at a brick and mortar at Assurant) and I probably moved 40 computers for people that needed help getting their stuff […]
Assassination City Roller Derby (Conspiracy vs North Texas Fighting Unicorns) Bout 2
I was invited back officially as a ACRD photographer! Which really what that means is that I’m actually just welcome to come and shoot any time rather than asking/being asked. ^.^ Which is great!
Assassination City Roller Derby (Conspiracy vs North Texas Fighting Unicorns) Bout 1
I was invited back officially as a ACRD photographer! Which really what that means is that I’m actually just welcome to come and shoot any time rather than asking/being asked. ^.^ Which is great!
Gloriana Rodriguez – PDNB
Glory agreed to a shoot with me to test out my new Canon EOS R5! It’s hard to take bad photos of her, she’s just professional through and through, and well, a legitimate honest-to-goodness professional model.
Graduation Shoot!
Zoe is getting her masters, and we wanted to do a graduation photoshoot at UTD!
Gloriana Rodriguez – The Fabrication Yard
Glory was available to shoot at The Fabrication Yard and I wasn’t going to pass up on the chance!
Assassination City Roller Derby
My second time shooting with ACRD, and I have to give big huge thanks to Wicked for inviting me and reminding me that I’m more than welcome! There are some amazing photographers here too, I seem to roll in right as things are starting and they’re all set up with c-stands and remote flash units, […]
Assassination City Roller Derby – May the 4th (be with you)
Feels super awkward shooting a new league, the handful of times I’ve shot Dallas Derby Devils it was closed practices and this feels official, well… because it’s actual “We’re selling tickets!” games. I met Wicked through Jayne (Hexa Dessie Maul) Ochoa who skated for ACRD and then for DDD, and I met Jayne in Photography […]
Studio Assignment – Carla Ferrell
I’m always intimidated by using the studio by myself because I always have so many questions. But then I find setting up the Dynalite and strobes by myself feels easier than when I have help. Carla is in my Studio Lighting class here at Richland College and was kind enough to sit for portraits!
Richland College Studio Lighting Class
Spent the night in Studio Lighting preparing for finals. Anaïs was kind enough to model for us and did an absolutely amazing job!
Anaïs Julia Jaquez
We have a Rembrandt Lighting assignment coming up and Louis brought her to help all of us out! She did an absolutely amazing job putting up with an entire classroom full of Studio Lighting students that don’t know what in the actual fuck we’re doing.
Richland College Studio Lighting Class
Spent the night up at the college working with strobes, beauty lights, the soft box, and working the Dynalite Power Pack and the Sekonic light meter. It’s a lot to go through, but we have a lot of good people in our Studio Lighting class and a really awesome professor!
Assignment – Correlation of Form
One of the few assignments that I thoroughly loved the concept of, finding two objects that were either similar or conveyed the same message.
St. Patricks Day Parade
We got extra credit for shooting this, honestly I feel like most of the shots were super, super annoyingly pedestrian except for the very last one. Spending a good three hours walking around my old neighborhood (we used to live a block away from Half Priced Books, where this all started) taking photos of drunken […]
White Rock Lake Dog Park
Just a day in the life! As hard as my wife is working on her masters, about the only thing that is as close to zen for her as humanly possible is time with her (and strangers’) puppers!
College Assignment – Sensuality
Sometimes for assignments I go through the thrift shops here in Dallas to see if anything “fits” or “clicks” with what I need, a perfect synchronicity is getting this assignment for sensuality then finding a perfume bottle in the shape of a woman’s body that has iridescent flowers inside. The piece isn’t really about bodies […]
Richland College – Studio Lighting
Second time actually able to dink around in the studio by myself, was working on some of the principles that Gary McCoy was teaching us about light modifiers. There are things I’d change that I didn’t even see or visualize until I was at home during post, but for a single-light setup and one of […]
Assignment – Colors
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