Dusk

I took this while waiting for the train back to Tokyo. The light was nice and the weather was warm.


Sometimes I was getting panicky in Tokyo..there's so many people around all the time. This picture is from a town called Tsujido. Tsujido made me the opposite of panicky. The train station is a mile from the beach and its mostly surf shops and friendly people.

Tokyo outtakes IV

School girls and a model


Another photo of my buddy calling it a day.

Christmas Eve

Some photos from the train back to my parents house a few days ago.


The blue tint is spooky.

Coffee/Tea

These soda machines are everywhere in Japan. I tried to get a really good shot of an isolated one but nothing doin'...here's an example of an attempt..

Berlin II

Entertainment


This is a drive by photo of the Kino International Theater in the eastern part of Berlin. The Germans renovated the theater in 1990 and it lights up all neon pink at night.


Larry

Cold

A couple of photos from a cold location scout day in Berlin.


Some unfrozen water.

Berlin

Here's Luis talking to an art director. The hand in front of his face is bumming me out...


and my auto focus missed its mark at the last second.


This job in Berlin was coooooold.. One day was 5 degrees fahrenheit at noon with no wind! The sun comes up at 8:30 and sets at 3:30.

I knew there had to be something wrong with that city.

Here's a shitty photo I took this morning before getting on the plane.


During my only free time I wanted to reshoot something I saw two years ago but on the half hour walk over my camera froze up and stopped working.

Honorable Mention

I finally decided to enter Jen Bekman's Hey Hot Shots contest this year... and so did everybody else! I was stoked to get an honorable mention and their blog has links to all the photographers websites.


I'll try again in the summer.

Fisherman

I'm off to Berlin in a few hours to work/freeze for a four days. In the meantime here's some photos of a fisherman in Japan. I stood there waiting for this guy to stand up for over an hour.


He only stuck around for a minute or so after standing up and I shot a few frames before he bailed.


Back in a week.

Tokyo outtakes III

Some various street scenes.

Tokyo outtakes II

Some more. A fishing net..


The sink/soap/tile color combos in Japan are nice to look at.

Tokyo Outtakes

A window in the red light district


and here's a cool old car on the highway.

Missed opportunity

I was across the school yard when these kids rolled out the tire. I made my way over in time to shoot three frames before they stopped... Mediocre at best:


Visual slop.

Earlier in the week something else even more epic (one of those universe aligning moments that comes around every 2 or 3 years) happened and I missed that too! Yeesh, two great photos missed.

Watching Japanese kids play baseball was cool. They have all these weird pregame traditions- warm ups where they yell a lot and drink water in unison.

Jet lag

A 14 hour time difference takes some getting used to.

Mt. Fuji

Seeing Mt. Fuji was cool. This crappy photo is the only clear shot I had cause most of the time the mountain was covered in clouds or pollution.


We took the Shinkansen high speed train from Osaka to Tokyo. I looked it up...its the busiest train line in the world. These Shinkansen trains leave every three minutes and in 2003 they averaged a 6 second delay for the year... having said that...

..check out around the 50 second mark of this video (when stuff gets in the foreground) to see what 200+ mph on land looks like.

Snaps

Took a long flight from Amsterdam to Osaka.


Somewhere over Siberia


A view of Osaka from my hotel window.


Detail


I watched these awesome kids play baseball down near the beach one day. Only shot 3 frames with the digital so they'll be more later after I scan the film.


I spent a lot of time nerding out in used camera stores.


A street cast kid from Tokyo.


The Akihabara JR train platform as seen from my hotel in Tokyo. The Japanese trains are awesome and come every couple of minutes.


More later.

Wires

I didn't know projects had been done on the telephone wires of Tokyo.. Oh well.. I shot a good one at night that I'll put in the final anyway. Here's an outtake.


There's too many earthquakes and the city was poorly planned so now there's all these gnarly configurations happening above your head.

Tokyo

I'm back a little early from my trip. There was a schedule mishap that left me with 7 days off between jobs in Tokyo....good thing I brought 50 rolls of film and my Mamiya. I purchased a shitty tripod and went back to explore all the things that interested me on my first two visits but didn't have time to shoot.


I have a few digital snaps that I'll put up soon. I put that camera away after the first couple of days and instead shot the rest on film. I'm trying to get them up on the website by the end of the year.

Gone for a month

I'll be gone for a month starting tomorrow. Gonna go work for Luis. We're going around the planet starting in London then Japan then LA then home in mid December. I'm stoked.

No photos lately cause I've been working on prints. Here's some little thumbnails prints to aid in layout..


I printed them at 11x14 on Moab fibre gloss paper. Its the first time I've used it and I'm been real happy so far.


Here's a couple more snaps from Queens.


Sal-t-nuts!


A noodle man


More cool signs


There will be many posts in late December and probably a ton in January.
Adios!

Flushing

Yeesh..slow going on the 'ol blog..
I walked around Flushing for a few hours yesterday. Here's three photos all taken within 10 seconds. The sun flared up and the light disappeared 10 seconds after the last one was shot.




Its a much better Chinatown than the one in Manhattan. Its very busy but nice and quiet.


A cool door on Northern Blvd


A red booth


Some neon



Ads

Marathon

I've never taken a good photo of the New York Marathon.

Another mediocre effort


Some leaves on a driveway. I take this photo every year....

Spackle

I went back to Jersey a few days ago.
Dad was fixing up the back room.


He probably won't like this photo


Dad in his basement retreat


Ma cooked us a chicken for dinner before I went back to the city.


I'm waiting around for work to start up again. The blog might be slow in November.

Windy backseat

This is an old photo from 2002. Its the frame directly before this photo on the contact sheet.


Salt Lake City

Salt storm

An RV out on the salt flats

Alan's on Sunday

I went to Alan's on Sunday to shoot photos of him painting his apartment. They are bad photos.

His bathroom is weird and has great muted colors. I shot some pictures in there too.


A leaky sink




On the way back to the city we stopped and he built a kicker


Did some ollies




A Route 9 sunset. The sundown light has started to take on that cold winter quality that I hate.


Depressing.

Hard drive finds II

A nudist


Old shoes in a motel room.

Hard drive finds

I found some more photos from Croatia and Bosnia.


More bullet holes


Another version of these kids playing.

Iceland at 2 am

My trip to Iceland was during the summer of 2004. One of the few things I remember was the sun touching the horizon at 2 am then coming back up again.


Try remembering those street names after a week long bender.

Trip home and old photos

Me and Nick went back to Jersey on Sunday and had a good dinner.


We threw a football and tried to hacky sack in the dark.


Its not easy.


detail.


This is the known photo of my Grandma that now hangs in my old room. My dad took it in 1966 and it has always hung in our various houses growing up. I think its great.


It reminded me to scan some chromes and prints I found while rummaging in her house during my last visit to England. I swiped a bunch of dumpster bound photos and scanned 'em today at Printspace. Here's a few of my favorites...

An old Polyfoto my Grandma had made for her passport.


Pretty cool huh? Its sharp too..


I'm guessing she used that passport to go to India where these next couple were taken.



Here's my postwar dad on the left and some little schemers on the right.


My dad as a young teen with his two younger brothers. This print is amazing..its about two inches square but holds so much detail. I could print this scan 16"x16" and it wouldn't lose much.


The back of the above photo


Mysterious grainy snapshot of my Grandma.


My Ma spazzing out.


Another strange moment


I don't know who would've taken this one but its great. My Grandpa and Grandma on some riverbank.


detail


Then I found some of these amazing 2 1/4 Kodachromes. This is my Grandma and Uncle Simon in Switzerland.



Good ol' fashioned double exposures.


I'm guessing my Dad took this...


Anyways..better here that in a dumpster right?

Bloody Leftovers

I had another version of this on my old website for a while.


Aftermath of a sewn up split head in Costa Rica a couple of years ago.

Long Jump

This is a photo of Luis trying to figure out what to do with a model in a long jump pit.


This was in the basement of Berlin's Olympic Stadium a couple of summers ago.

Blackrock Tower

My second installment in a series of new projects is up on the website. This time the focus is on Blackrock diving tower in Salthill, Ireland.


The grid might be too big for any screen smaller that 1440 x 900 pixels...might get chopped.

Relics

A couple of super old crappy scans I found while looking for something else.

The romantic "Valentino Suite" in a downtown LA hotel. I forgot the name of the place cause it was a long time ago. A scene from Seven was filmed in the hallway and they were filming the first Spider Man out in the alley... doing that scene when realizes learns he can climb walls. I remember looking down the air shaft and seeing all the lights and people and being super stoked that there was going to be a Spider Man movie.

and I also found this cool photo of my old roommate Meaghan from about 9 years ago.

Outtakes VII

The dregs of the outtakes. Didn't really work that hard on these.. I knew early they weren't gonna be used.

A bummed Irish kid


Some neighborhood girls.


Old man in the early morning.


Some guys easing into the freezing water


A dad with his kids


This should have been good but it ain't.

Old Timers

Couple of old timers


This isn't in the final edit..at website size you lose that nice lighting detail above. Probably better off as a decent sized print.

Outtakes VI

These kids again


Detail


An overview


Detail

Airborne Outtakes

Various outtakes of kids jumping in..

The Long Course

..Is a working title for new stuff I just put on my website. Most of the photos were shot up and down the long course during Bonneville Speed Week last August.

Good 'ol Steve fixed my website.


I should get the Ireland stuff up next week.

Outtakes V

Team huddling around a burnt up engine. This is the best daytime light in Bonneville. About 5 or 6 pm when the sun gets low in the sky and before the light gets all yellow.


I tried real hard to make a good photo of the timing equipment.. no dice. Usually when I set my sights on getting a good still life it happens naturally. I tried and tried on these (there was about four scattered around) for a few days in a row.. all I got was contact sheets of crap.


An English couple waiting for their turn at the start.


A driver and his chase team after a good morning run.


I was getting ready to post the others but erased my website instead. My friend Steve just boarded a plane to LA so I don't know when it'll get fixed.

Oops

I erased my website..

Trying to do something to a thumbnail and things took a turn for the worse.
Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

Outtakes IV

A couple more

Frances swam every day.


Frontflip


Hopefully I can get this project done by the middle of the month.

Outtakes III

More early edits..

These two little dudes came every day rain or shine.


High tide meant sketchy stairs. I have a better photo of these steps that's going on the website later.


Getting worked over..


One more of the many backflips I witnessed..seemed to be the go-to trick.

Outtakes II

Same kid different day.


Got lots of picture of kids shivering.


I was wearing a heavy hoodie and coat when I took this.

Outtakes I

The problem with shooting something at the end of a pier is that there's a lot of good repeats...limited angles you can approach it from. I have about 15 pics like this one below but am trying to narrow it down to the best 3 for the finals.


A cool steering wheel.


That red thing is the parachute ripcord.

Don

Check out this guy..


The day before this he had flat spun that pencil car at 300 mph! Apparently that's pretty much a death sentence (or a gnarly injury) except his car didn't roll....seemed pretty mellow about the whole thing.



I have a better color photo that I'll put up on the website next week.

Flats at night

A view of the raceway from route 80. The little lights in the distance are stragglers.


This was a 3 minute exposure. The yellow light is from the highway behind me and the stars are all blurred and stuff.

Crowd

A small crowd at the very end of speed week. The tourists came for the first 3 days then bailed.

Backflip at Blackrock

I've been working on my Ireland photos... they should be ready by November.

This kid was gnarly.


He did a sweet gainer after this but my flash misfired and I missed it.

Gone again

I'll be in London for a week starting tomorrow.


Fred

(Big) Group show

Man thats a lot of people huh?..If anyone that looks at this lives in Vancouver, there's a one night only show on the 26th. It looks like it could be good...its a cool idea. I have nine photos showing and hope it all goes well.


Thanks to Jennilee for the invite!

more info's http://nightvisionexhibition.tumblr.com