Upcoming Show

The Watson Studio Gallery is having their "Plastic Fantastic" show starting on July 25th in Johnson City, Texas. This show is all from "plastic" or toy camera's like the Holga, Diana, or even the venerable Lens Baby! These lo-res photos are really fantastically fun and the look is just so cool and interesting--you never really know what you are gonna get--as opposed to the clinical perfection of supersharp lenses and many megapixels and 3" viewing screens.

My Holga's have 2 exposure settings--cloudy or sunny and 4 guess focusing settings-- 1 person, 3 people, 7 people, or mountain. I don't know that I have ever consciously changed that setting, just leaving it to blind luck for something cool to happen with the film. So I was pretty excited when a photo of a church in Northern New Mexico a little while ago was selected for the show!

This photo, Desert Cathedral, is currently drying in the Bucher Photophotographs World Headquarters awaiting framing and then off it goes to Texas for the show. If you are anywhere near, you should stop by as it really looks to be an awesome gathering of images!

New Website coming

In May, I found out that one of my images from the Boxing project will be seen in the Communication Arts 2009 Photo Annual. This is great news for me and the project. For those that don't know, Communication Arts is one of the premier photography and graphic arts showcase magazines. Getting in the Photo Annual is very prestigious and the people who receive it are the people that you want your work in front of...both for my commercial and my art work.

In that we are working hard to update the website so that is plenty of new fun work that is much more directed at the type of work that I really have the passion to do, at the same time I want to make sure I continue with to serve all my current awesome clients and friends as well as I have been. So look for those updates on the website very soon.

More Art News

A series of 3 of my images is currently on display the Watson Studio Gallery in Johnson City, Texas. This exhibition is entitled Manage a Trois and has 20 photographers all showing a series of 3 related images. The three images that I submitted were from my "Little Kings" series of young boxers. The 3 images were all of Denzel, one a portrait, one actually sparing, and one an environmental study of him in the ring. This series also won the Jurors Selection award at this show. Needless to say, I am thrilled to win the award and excited that something that I put so much into has been so well recieved.

You can learn more about the gallery and see a video of the opening reception at Carol Watson's website--

http://www.lostcanuck.com/studio/

In search of...

The ever elusive shot from inside the dishwasher!

So today we were working on photographs for appliance delivery and installation, when I got the brilliant idea to actually put the camera and lights into the dishwasher while it was being installed. I knew there was a reason that I always pack that 14mm lens.

Here is one of the outtakes.

Fall Art Show News

My boxing photographs project is coming along very well. In November a portrait of Denzel was selected to a show at the Leslie Powell Gallery in Lawton, OK. It received the Juror's Selection award and has received a lot of great feedback. A couple weeks later, a series of images of Tevin was selected for a show at the gallery of the London Photographic Association. This series also won the Bronze in Documentary Photography.
It has been great to work with both of these galleries, and get to learn more about the "fine art world". Thanks to Kevin O'Connor at the London Photographic Association, and Nancy Anderson from the Leslie Powell Gallery for the photos of the openings! A very special thanks to Robin Damm of Fedex and awesome neighbor for helping to deal with the shipping--a 62 pound photograph is really a pain to deal with.