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26.12.11

More motivated at night

Last year I made a set of goals for my photography. I think I threw them out in August because they were way unreasonable. I'm trying to think up a new set of more reasonable goals for 2012, and I think I've got a couple good ideas lined up.

One thing I want to do is carry my point and shoot more often - like all the time. I took maybe a few thousand shots with it this past year, and it was the greatest for documenting random events. Actually, I used this camera more than my film camera and my dslr combined.

I want to continue shooting film, but be more sparing with the scenes I shoot. I love shooting film, but it's expensive. I think it would be amazing if at some point I could get into medium format, but that's wishful thinking.

I want to see the mountains! So many of my favorite photographs from other people are of mountains, and I've never been there. I can't even imagine how big they are. As a slightly more extended goal, I would like to visit Glacier National Park, before the glacier is completely gone.

Lastly, I want to try to build up some kind of portfolio. I would like to do this for personal use, to give my photos some sort of direction, and for me to use as a base standard for my work. I want to work on different Great Lakes related projects, so this would be a good way for me to put it all together.

This is a pretty basic list, but it seems like a good list for me. Now, since this is a post about photography, it would be wrong for me not to include a few photographs. So here are five point and shoot snaps that I really like from this past year:




A bird flew in front of me while I was taking this picture, which is what that nasty looking poo smudge is.










Spent a couple afternoons kayaking until sundown. I took a bunch of shots of the sunset with the front of the kayak in the foreground, but I like this one because it shows movement, it keeps the colors of the sunset, and I like the different perspective.





This shot is from my last trip downstate in June. These trails lead south from the sand bowl. I like the shot by itself, but it reminds me of good adventures with good companions.








This was taken during an evening ride that wound through back roads north of Marquette, through town and then south towards Harvey.






This reservoir wall is so much fun, and the fact that you have to take all these back roads to get to it makes it so much better. I could ride this spot a hundred times and not get sick of it, and the potential for photos here is incredible. I will definitely be back next summer.

16.12.11

12 for 12

12 shots from this past year... And some words.

This night was actually one of the first times that I met Juan, and aside from the fact that I knew he killed it on bikes, I couldn't have told you much else.

Long story short, Juan is cool as shit. Awesome guy to hang out and ride with, and he knows pretty much all of the spots in Boston. One of the many people I'm glad I came to know while living out in Mass. I miss all of those dudes/dudettes.

14.12.11

first frost, october

I'm taking a break from studying for exams to put up a couple snaps from an over nighter I took along the lower baraga lake in the McCormick tract. Being that I was away from Lake Superior, this was the first time I felt the temps go below freezing this fall.



8.12.11

Marquette orphanage

Took another walk through the abandoned orphanage in town recently. This was my favorite picture from the night.

5 Songs (that I am listening to this week)

Hail Mary Mallon - "Plagues and Bacon"
Midlake - "Head Home"
Zach Hill - "Gross Sales" 
Sergei Prokofiev - "Dance of the Knights"
Blockhead - "Insomniac Olympics"

Videos

4.12.11

It's Never Sunny In Michigan

That's a lie. Michigan can actually be a really nice place, weather-wise... For, like, three whole days out of the year.

On a positive note, what with all of this dreariness, I seem to be somewhat productive.



I'm hoping to collect some clips and what have you to make a fun little edit in an attempt to kick away some of this cold and boring Michigan weather.

Then finally, over the course of the next year or so, I'd like to make a full on MI video. We'll see how it goes.

1.12.11

LCF Skate & BMX



About a week or so ago, I spent the day at Lakeshore Cycle, over on the skate and bmx side of things, and along, with some general tomfoolery (including putzing around on the mini that they built in there), I spent about half the day shooting some 400 pictures, give or take.

Because they're super cool people over there, I quick threw this thing together--and because I didn't really know what else to do with it. Hope you like it.