robert seth

recent image

2011-11-15T20:01:00.001-05:00

just a recent image

urban fog

2011-10-13T13:36:00.001-04:00

A couple of images from an early morning coffee run.

mean kitteh

2011-10-12T22:03:00.000-04:00

Here are a some images of the family cat, Possum. We picked up the little fur ball about four years ago. He was a birthday present for my son. He was so cute and fun, but then he turned into a cat. He is not much of a lap cat either, he is too much of a butt head for that. He likes to bite if he is feeling ignored. He bites hard too.

This cat has also managed to kill almost every type of wild animal we have living in the neighborhood. Things like mice, rats, moles, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, snakes, birds and even bats... so yeah I guess you could consider him to be a good hunter (he's still a butt head though).

The top left image gives you a small glimpse of his personality.

He looks cute, but he's a mean kitteh.

test post

2011-10-11T10:59:00.000-04:00

I made few layout changes to the blog.

The images had to be formatted really small using the previous template.
So far, I like what I'm seeing with the new tweaks.

race fest

2011-05-12T00:01:00.000-04:00

My wife recently ran a half marathon.
Check out the gallery of images I snagged while palling around with my son. -->kinetic-images.com

(random guy)

a real man's razor

2011-05-01T11:00:00.000-04:00

This is just awesome.

a year later - white shades

2011-03-28T21:48:00.009-04:00

I was digging through some old images and I came across this one. I shot this almost a year ago, but for some reason I overlooked it. This time around, it caught my attention and I ended up processing it for my white shades series.

strange brew

2011-03-25T18:02:00.003-04:00

Images that happen late at night are usually ones that come out a little strange.

clemson DH

2011-03-24T23:02:00.010-04:00

I went to my first bike race of the season a couple of weekends ago. It was a very wet and muddy race in the Experimental Forest at Clemson. The morning of the race, it started to drizzle as I walked from the hotel to my truck. By the time I made it out of the parking lot it was a steady rain. It prettymuch poured aaall daaay long. It was my first trip down for one of the Clemson Freeride races and I was a little eeyored by the weather. I took very few photos throughout the day. It was just too wet to get out the camera gear, but it was still an enjoyable trip.

flash mod (stoked!)

2011-02-17T23:23:00.011-05:00

I hard wired 1/8" mono plugs to three Vivitar 285 HV flashes.
Now I'm able to plug my vivitar flashes directly to my pocket wizards. I was having connection issues with the cables typically used. In short, this mod rocks.

I now have three, very solid, remote flashes (stoked!).

This was a quick test shot with the three flashes... It was hastily put together and the resulting image is whatever, but I was stoked to use the three modded remote flashes.

Ha ha, stoked!

the resurrection

2011-01-31T22:22:00.003-05:00

I need to get back to posting about photos and whatnot...

day 6 of 7

2010-12-17T14:40:00.001-05:00

getting things back on track...

nikkor 50mm f/1.8D: 6 of 7

day 5 of 7 (um yeah)

2010-12-17T11:05:00.003-05:00

Well, so much for shooting an image a day for seven consecutive days. Getting sick put a bit of a kink in my plan. I feel a lot better today, so I'm going to pick up where I left off. I guess now I'll have to say it was seven images over the course of nine days. I'll post up today's image a little later.

day 4 of 7

2010-12-16T11:07:00.003-05:00

Bummed. I'm fighting a cold and didn't get around to shooting anything for day four. I should of embraced the misery and shot something appropriately themed for my day of being out of sorts. Oh well.

to be continued...

day 3 of 7

2010-12-15T12:12:00.005-05:00

It's very cold outside and I'm feeling a little under the weather.

nikkor 50mm f/1.8D: 3 of 7

7 days with a 50 gallery

day 2 of 7

2010-12-14T00:07:00.005-05:00

An abstract macro shot with the 50 and an extension tube.

nikkor 50mm f/1.8D: 2 of 7
7 days with a 50 gallery

day 1 of 7

2010-12-13T22:09:00.006-05:00

So starting yesterday, I'm creating an image a day for 7 consecutive days with a single lens.

nikkor 50mm f/1.8D: 1 of 7

7 days with a 50 gallery

aiad reflection

2010-12-02T07:12:00.026-05:00

Here it is, the second day of December, two days after a month long "an image a day" project and I have to say it. It felt weird not taking a photo yesterday. It was also a bit of a relief though. Finding time to create an idea, set up a shot and execute it during my already busy schedule was difficult sometimes. Some of the images came easily and some not so much. The quick ones took thirty minutes or so to shoot, process and make a blog post about them. Then there were some that ended up taking closer to two hours to get through the whole process. That's a lot of time spent chasing an image, but I really enjoyed doing it.

I learned a few things along the way too, which was part of the reason I wanted to do the project. I had a couple eureka moments with lighting and delved further into post-processing software/methods. I also spent a lot of time thinking about photography. I had several photo ideas come to mind that would take much more effort than what I could cram into two hours. Soooo I have almost convinced myself to do a 52 week project for 2011, which would mean shooting one image a week for the year. I think I could produce a "better" image given a week's time to stroll through the creative process.

I'm pretty stoked on every image from the series, but
here are some of my favorites from the month:

11/08/10 - strummin'
(It's my boy doing what he does... I like that.)

11/10/10 - it's getting dark too early
(I never shoot landscapes.)

11/19/10 mike and das boot
(Mike just looks pimp!)

11/24/10 headed to mellow(Maybe I played too much in high school... I don't know.)

Here's another for the outtake gallery.
I'm pretty sure there are a few more that will end up there.

11/28/10 - CT Kitteh

see the rest from the month long project at and a others at kinetic-images.com/projects

aiad 11/30/10

2010-11-30T23:58:00.006-05:00

The last one of the project... number 30

11/30/10 late night weirdness

see all thirty images form the month
long exercise at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/29/10

2010-11-30T09:12:00.004-05:00

Project photo number 29.
I was pretty tired when this image came about.
I pretty much had a get a shot and get to bed mentality.

11/29/10 - 11:21 pm

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/28/10

2010-11-29T10:03:00.004-05:00

Project photograph number 28.
I set up a flash to shoot something else, but ended up with a self portrait as my photo for the day.

11/28/10 - self portrait
see more form the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/27/10

2010-11-28T13:33:00.005-05:00

This is what happens when it's late, I'm tired and have a headache.
project photo no. 27

11/27/10 - hanging feet

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/26/10

2010-11-28T13:27:00.004-05:00

Project photo number 26. This was a quick test shot using a chinese lantern as a light modifier. The quality of light was pretty sick. I'll use it again, fer sure.

11/26/10 - soft light

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/25/10

2010-11-26T12:40:00.004-05:00

Project photo number 25... I was setting up for a shoot I had the next morning and popped a few test exposures. I decided to use one of the tests as my image of the day. I ended up going a little strange with the processing too.

11/25/10 - test shot

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/24/10

2010-11-25T10:42:00.005-05:00

An image a day project photo number 24. This one was shot on my way to the mellow mushroom. I wasn't feeling too serious about photos at the moment.

11/24/10 - on the way to mellow

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/23/10

2010-11-24T11:19:00.003-05:00

Project photo number 23. When I first started shooting, I used four different film bodies before going to digital. One of those four was a Zeiss Ikon Super B. I enjoyed using it, but I was stoked to move on to a camera that had a functioning light meter.

11/23/10 - super b

check out the rest of the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/22/10

2010-11-22T22:24:00.005-05:00

Project photo number 22... I was tired and parked in front of the tv when this one came to mind.

11/22/10 - idiot box

check out more form the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/21/10

2010-11-22T11:54:00.005-05:00

Project photo number 21. This was another one of those I needed a photo and didn't have much time to make it happen. My buddy in the photo was on a schedule, so we spent about 10 minutes grabbing the kid's bike from the basement and setting up the shot. A few frames later I was putting the lights away.

11/21/10 - big kid

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/20/10

2010-11-22T11:46:00.005-05:00

Project photo number 20. This photo sort of just happened. It was late and we were hanging out and I needed a photo for the day.

11/20/10 - mike and das boot

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/19/10

2010-11-22T11:36:00.009-05:00

Project photo number 19. This shot was set up and executed pretty quickly. We were getting ready to eat dinner and needed the table. I spent a little bit of extra time processing this one. I was trying to create a cool/blue gray sort of look and it took some time playing to find the end result I was after. I'm digging what I came up with.

11/19/10 - photo of a photographer

check out more from the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/18/10 (plus an outtake)

2010-11-19T07:01:00.005-05:00

Project photo number 18. I'm pretty stoked that I've managed to make it this far into the month long project. There has definitely been a few days/nights I really wasn't into shooting anything. But for each of those not so feeling it moments, I managed to push through and ended up enjoying the time spent chasing an image.

11/18/10 - raaaaarrrrrrr

Here is an outtake from the same setup. It will probably end up being my new face book profile photo.

11/18/10 - chillin'

check out more from this months project at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/17/10

2010-11-17T23:12:00.004-05:00

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale, enough said.

11/17/10 - celebration ale
check out my currently on going project at kinetic-images.com

aiad outtakes 11/14/10

2010-11-17T12:36:00.007-05:00

Here are a couple of outtakes from my current project.

11/14/10 - street light moon

11/14/10 - slice of light

aiad 11/16/10

2010-11-17T08:10:00.006-05:00

Project photo number 16. I have lots of odd stuff in my basement that was left by the previous home owners. The old guy that used to lived here had a small wood working area down there. When he and his wife moved out, I inherited most of the more useless tidbits. The majority of the items are pretty old and possibly worthless, but they can be interesting to look at. For example check out this old container of Boraxo powdered hand soap. After a quick Google search, it appears this tin container and the soap in it could be 60 years old. Kind of neat, I thought.

11/16/10 phs

I also want to mention the lighting in this shot. I used the same lighting set up for this shot, but scaled it down and controlled it a little better. Which is very cool to me. Part of my reasoning for doing this project was to learn new things and develop better techniques. To me this images is an example of accomplishing both. Stoked!

check out the rest of the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/15/10

2010-11-16T10:06:00.005-05:00

I had a tough time getting an image idea for my most recent project photo. I wandered around in my head for a while trying to come up with a shot idea. Eventually I sort of caved in and decided to just get some random object and shoot it with a simple one light setup... So I grabbed a potato. It's not the most exciting photo, but it kept me from missing the 15th day of my month long project.

11/15/10 - red tater

check out more from the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/14/10

2010-11-15T18:40:00.003-05:00

Sometimes it's fun just to walk around with the camera way out of focus and see what you come up with. I spent about 10 minutes walking around a friends house photographing shadows and light sources and came up with this image of the day.

11/14/10 - soft glow

see more images from this project at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/13/10

2010-11-15T18:31:00.005-05:00

It was late in the evening before I managed to grab an image for this day.

11/13/10 - bourbon by the campfire
see more images from the project at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/12/10 (plus outtakes)

2010-11-13T10:28:00.008-05:00

Project photo number 12.

11/12/10 - just dande
During the ten minutes I was laying on the ground shooting this lone dandelion, I ended up with a few different images happening . I played with a few angles and tried to accomplish a few different affects with the existing light and a small bounce card. In doing so I ended up with a few different images that I liked. The last image I shot was the one I put the most effort into, so it was chosen as my image of the day. But I had several others that worked and that I liked also. I've had this happen a couple of times so far, so I decided to make an aiad-outtake gallery. I'll try and update this gallery a little as I go.

11/12/10 - happy accident

11/12/10 - dande lens flair

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/11/10

2010-11-11T21:20:00.003-05:00

I had a very lazy day behind the lens. Today's project photo (No. 11) was just a quick snapshot utilizing some nice window light.

11/11/10 - crazy face

check out more photos at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/10/10

2010-11-11T10:05:00.004-05:00

10 days in...

check out the whole series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/09/10

2010-11-09T21:38:00.004-05:00

An image a day number nine. I'm pretty pumped on this one. There is a little photoshop trickery going on, but I'm way stoked on the lighting.

check out more from the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/08/10

2010-11-09T08:06:00.005-05:00

An image a day project photo number eight. I had a pretty big grin on my face during the capture of this image. As I was composing the shot, my son started playing the theme song to the Super Mario Brothers video game. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit.

11/08/10 - strummin'

check out more at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/07/10

2010-11-08T08:22:00.003-05:00

The 7th image of the project is just a quick snapshot from Sunday morning.

11/07/10 - kids snapshot

you can see more at: kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/06/07

2010-11-07T08:51:00.007-05:00

It was about 11:00 am when I checked my phone and saw a pic message of the subject for my image of the day. It wasn't until about 11:00 pm that I started setting up the shot though. My buddy Merritt, owner of Re:Cycles Bike Shop, brought his new hotness over to my place for a late night shoot. He has a polished black market killswitch, freshly built with all kinds of shinny polished bits. I was stoked to get a photograph of it in it's still virgin state.
This bike is sick!

11/06/10 - killswitch

(click for a larger image)

check out more from the aiad project: kinetic-images.com

Dylan - Senior Portraits

2010-11-06T08:42:00.003-04:00

I mentioned my nephew's senior portraits in an earlier blog post, so I figured I should post some other images from the shoot. It wasn't anything real serious. We were just having fun and trying to make some rad photos. We broke it into two sessions. The first being more of the typical senior portrait style shoot. My nephew's friend John was a great help acting as my lighting assistant. I think several shots from the first session worked out very well.

The second session was shot focusing on Dylan's interest in mixed martial arts. This was a first for me. I have a background in martial arts, but never had the opportunity to shoot anything that was related. We shot a few fight scenes and they were mostly a trial and error sort of event. We had an idea of what we were looking for, but getting that moment captured was a challenge. I think we did well, but I see room for improvement.

more images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/05/10

2010-11-06T08:02:00.007-04:00

Project photo number 5. This one was a bit of an experiment. I created the rim light using a technique I had not seen before. It was something I saw applied in a product shot and I wanted to try using it for a portrait. Since it was a first attempt, I think it worked out pretty well. I saw a few things to try differently next time, but I also saw some things that definitely worked.

11/05/10 white shades head shot

more images from the series can be seen here: kinetic-images.com

******
This is sort of a project photo within a photo project. I've had a white shades thing going for a bit and this one belongs in that series as well.

aiad 11/04/10

2010-11-04T21:15:00.007-04:00

Here is the 4th photo of the project. I don't have much to say about it, it's just my truck.

11/04/10 - it still has the factory tape deck

Check out a larger version of this image and others in the series at kinetic-images.com

aiad 11/03/10

2010-11-04T11:06:00.007-04:00

So I've now completed three days of this project and I'm still at it. Yesterday's shot idea came about on the way home form work. I had a dried flower hanging out at the house to use as a subject. The flower was clipped for another photo I had in mind that never happened, so the flower ended up getting tossed on a table and forgotten about. The image I came up with is nothing like the first idea the flower was intended for, but I like the results.

11/03/10 - dried flower

a larger image can be seen here: kinetic-images.com

an image a day

2010-11-03T12:12:00.006-04:00

I've been feeling a little unfulfilled with my photography habits here lately. I mess around with photography in some form almost everyday, but I usually end up with very little to show for it or showing very little of it. I'm starting to think I have a "flaw" in how I approach my photography.

So in an effort to help my creative process flourish, I have decided to commit myself to a month long photo project. My plan is to shoot something, then process and post an image every day for the month of November. I hope by focusing on completing these multiple "short term" photo assignments, I'll learn a little more about my process of creating images and develop better habits. So far I'm two for two...

11/01/10 - suki

11/02/10 - abstract leaves

larger images can be seen here : kinetic-images.com

white-shades-backflip

2010-09-06T21:44:00.005-04:00

It's been a while since I've shot a white shades image, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten about them. I shot my nephew's senior portraits this past weekend and slipped in a white shades photo during the session. I'm pretty stoked on this one!

dirty bird

2010-08-20T00:28:00.006-04:00

DIRTY BIRD

photo booth

2010-06-29T23:11:00.017-04:00

So a while ago, I started playing around with a "photo booth" idea. My wife and I spend a good bit of time hanging out around the house with friends. So I thought it would be cool/fun to have a "photo booth" set up sometime when we had company over. So I tried it out one night and we had a ton of fun, so we did it on two other occasions.

The Idea:
Set up the Booth
Instruct the guest on how to use the equipment

Create fun, silly no pressure photos

The Booth:
Camera on a tripod, with a remote, set on a 5 second delay
Some reference points for depth of field ("x" on the floor)
Simple solid background
Simple lighting set up
Simple instructions: Have fun!

The Photo:
After capture, I cropped the images and made most of them black and white. Nothing fancy, just a quick and dirty edit.

I really like how many of the images turned out.
Check out about 40 more images
from the this photo exercise here ---> kinetic-images.com

cullen's 1st

2010-06-24T23:21:00.009-04:00

A friend had their first birthday party this past weekend.

(mmmm cake)

I posted about this little guy a year ago.
Check it out ---> Cullen

more d200 stokage

2010-06-18T21:33:00.004-04:00

It was crazy! I set up a flash with a green gel and a friend walked in my front door wearing a green shirt. Stokage!

d200 stokage

2010-06-17T07:55:00.005-04:00

I picked up a new to me slr. Unfortunately my other camera decided to crap out on me, so I had to get something to replace it. I found a reasonably priced, low mileage d200 to use for the time being. Here's a couple of quick test shots...

There are a few other shots from the quick little test session here ----> kinetic-images.com

recent images with the WHITE SHADES

2010-03-22T23:22:00.010-04:00

Here are a couple of images with those silly looking white sunglasses.

Check out more images from
the ongoing series here: ---> kinetic-images.com

the basement...

2010-03-19T00:47:00.006-04:00

A self portrait using a single incandescent light and a bounce card.

(I thought it worked out well)

lucas

2010-03-18T23:33:00.010-04:00

A recent shoot with a recent arrival. Little Lucas...

and his brother.

more images can be seen at ---> kinetic-images.com

snowskate

2010-02-16T21:02:00.005-05:00

Late night snowskate photo.

Check out more here ---> kinetic-images.com

bread & milk

2010-01-28T20:54:00.010-05:00

Oh no! There is snow in the forecast!

We must stock up on bread and milk!
Quick, to the store before they run out!

I took the point and shoot to the store for the weekly grocery trip. I strapped it to the grocery cart and pushed it around. It made shopping a little more fun and only a few people looked at me kinda funny.

Anyway, I was lucky. I beat the rush and
there was still plenty of milk and bread.

abc project

2010-01-27T12:45:00.006-05:00

Quite some time ago I thought about doing an ABCs photo project... So yesterday morning I was standing in my kitchen and decided I would spend a few hours doing one. I wanted to do it a little differently than what I've seen before. Maybe I was being lazy, but I did not go out and about looking for letters. Instead all the letters I wanted to photograph had to come from one of the cabinets in my kitchen.

said cabinet

So, I put a small lightiing kit together and started pulling things out of the cabinet looking for the letters of the alphabet. Here are some of the results of my quirky little exercise.
(check the link at the bottom for the whole series)

view the whole gallery at kinetic-images.com

after a rainy day

2010-01-22T18:50:00.007-05:00

Early evening photos after a day of cold rain...

I needed to get out and shoot something that was sort of loose and free. I have recently been feeling a little too up-tight about the images i was trying to create and need to get out and get a little loose and free with what I was chasing. With this little series I was more or less riding down the road and decided to do some two to four second exposures. This is what i came up with...

Larger images can be seen --> here

white shades - continued

2010-01-22T18:30:00.004-05:00

A few more images from the white shades project...

more... here

white shades - mike

2009-12-03T22:15:00.008-05:00

My white shades project is growing and headed in a pretty fun direction. People seem to be digging the results of my little photo exercise and wanting to get involved. I'm pretty stoked on what has come together so far and I hope to reach my goal of 35-40 different people sporting these shades in the not so distant future.

Mike chill'n chill'n in the white shades...

If anyone is interested in being a subject in my white shades project hit me up.
I've got a lot of ideas, but I'm open to others as well.

More images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

Kennedy

2009-12-02T08:20:00.006-05:00

A few images from a recent shoot with little Kennedy.

More can be seen at kinetic-images.com

merritt and jayme

2009-11-18T00:58:00.020-05:00

Here are a few shots from an engagement shoot with a couple of good friends that ride bikes and just pretty much have a good time where ever they go.

More images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

more white shades

2009-11-17T23:08:00.023-05:00

A couple more images with the white shades theme.

my brother

his wife

I'm planing on doing about 35-40 portraits with these white shades so stay tuned.

ella

2009-11-10T20:43:00.005-05:00

I recently had the pleasure of photographing little Ella.

I really like this next series of three

she's just so dang cute

So far she has been easy one too shoot. Here is the latest gallery of little Ella --> kinetic images

white shades

2009-11-10T20:04:00.010-05:00

I picked up these cheap, terribly silly looking, white shades from a gas station somewhere near Smith Mtn Lake VA. I've taken a few photos of different people sporting them (Including myself) and achieved some pretty fun results. Expect to see more shots with the white shades.

so i made a movie

2009-09-30T23:36:00.006-04:00

I put together a quick video for the purpose of trying to figure out a work flow to creating video. I had never tried shooting video for the purpose of creating one... I set out wanting to capture some footage, edit it down to usable clips, piece them together, add some tunes and export it to a format for the web... sounds simple. Right?

head shots

2009-08-03T21:57:00.010-04:00

So for what ever reason 6 months ago or so, I started taking head shots of my friends and family whenever I got the chance. It has worked out to be a good photo exercise, because it’s been all about being loose, quick and creative. Some have been pretty standard stuff, but others have been a little less, um well… standard. A few examples of what I'm getting at.

I'll probably do anther post similar to this in the near future. I've had a lot of fun doing these and they are starting to head in an interesting direction.

The High Country

2009-07-23T19:41:00.037-04:00

A few weekends ago I went to the high country to check out a down hill race at Beech Mountain. It was the first DH race held at Beech in 10 years, from what I understand. This was the first in a three race series the resort is hosting this summer. More info can be found at the series web site. I went up for the weekend to check out the new track and more or less just hang out. I took some photos but I did more talking and dorking around than anything else. So here are a few shots I was stoked on from my weekend.

race day

Austin Perkins

Andrew Mueller

Geritt Begtah

chill'n chill'n

motomike

sort of close to the couch i crashed on

A few more images can be seen at kinetic-images.com

America

2009-07-01T22:38:00.018-04:00

This past Friday I attended a benefit concert for the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. It was a good time, fer sure. I made it there just in time for the band America to take the stage. I snapped a few pics, they played a few tunes and then a rather significant thunderstorm rolled through. The music stopped, the umbrellas came out and we stood around and watched the heavy rain and the wicked lightning strikes for the next little bit. Eventually the clouds broke and the clean up began. There was standing water on the stage and tarps over most of the gear, but a crew armed with brooms cleaned things up quickly. Most of the crowd stuck it out through the storm. So when the band returned to the stage there was a wet, but stoked, crowed waiting to listen to the rest of their set. Here are a few images I came up with.

(click image to view larger version)

It was cool listening to these guys. I have childhood memories of my parents putting their albums on the turntable from time to time. So yeah, I enjoyed my self. More images of the show can be seen here --> kinetic-images.com

Self portraits

2009-06-25T23:35:00.003-04:00

Self portraits: the only willing model I could find.

So there was this contest on strobist.com and... well I missed out. So in the spirit of the contest theme (headshots) I put together a couple of self portraits tonight. (i was bored, more or less)

(click to view larger image)

my son

2009-06-25T20:50:00.005-04:00

Simple post… Here are a couple of recent images of my son. I may have a bit of a biased opinion due to the subject matter being something I’m so fond of, but I really like theses images.

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Focus

2009-06-18T21:28:00.010-04:00

Throughout my adventures of trying to understand my vision of photography, I’ve always been very caught up in the technical side of making images. You know, the things that make an image “correct”. Well, I decided I needed to forget about making images with this… this need for them to be technically “correct”. At least that’s the best way I can describe it.

So over the last couple/few weeks, I started looking for different elements in my images. I started looking more for colors, shapes or what ever and not being so worried about sharpness or the ideal exposure, etc. I’ve played with inducing lens flare, which I always tried to avoid in the past. Also, recently I’ve taken very wide open (f1.8-2.8) and out of focus shots, just looking for some rough abstract vibe. You know real loose and wacky, but still sort of calculated stuff.

Well I feel like I’ve had success with looking at things a little differently and I plan on continuing to see where this idea leads... Anyway, here are some examples of what I’m getting at.

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flared flowers

cool studio

flared hammock

boat rope

late night lake bokeh

Cullen

2009-06-18T20:46:00.014-04:00

So, my friends Erin and Sharon added a new member to the family this morning. At 2:45 am the hefty little Cullen, weighing in at 9 lbs 8oz, was born. My family went to pay them a visit this evening and I grabbed a couple photos while we were hanging out.

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Little Cullen @ about 15 hours old

Big thanks to my son! He acted as my lighting assistant by holding the fill card (a pillow with a very white pillow case). The very nice window light was coming from camera left and the fill card is about a foot to the right of the little bugger.

Congrats to the happy family!

First Post!

2009-06-18T00:54:00.027-04:00

Well I guess it’s about time I post something on this here blog. I mean, I signed up for it like 11 months ago or something... Anyway, I plan on updating this thing as often as I get time to do so. I might be a little too optimistic by saying this, but i would like to update it several times a week. But who knows? I’ve been pretty inspired here lately and I hope to make this blog one of my outlets for my creative fix, photography.

I’ll start with the subject “bikes”. I like to ride them and I have many, many… many photos of people riding them. So here are some of my fav's from the last couple of years.

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my first published image

Mountain Bike Action Magazine - March 2008

Showdown at Sugar 2007 - Banner Elk, NC

US Open of Mountain Biking 2008 - Vernon, NJ

Merritt White, somewhere in western NC

Power Aid series 2008 - Snow Shoe, WV

6 Hours of Warrior Creek 2009- Wilkesboro, NC

Red Bull Rampage The Evolution 2008 - Virgin, UT

Thomas Vanderham - suicide no hander over a 59' canyon gap (siiiiiiiiiiick!)

well this is a start anyway...