Japan, March 2009

Spent two weeks in Japan in 2009…

Giant Buddha statue in Nara

Dinosaur BBQ & Ditch Plains, June 2011

I brought my camera along to some meals out, naturally, and tried to “experiment” or something. I don’t know. It’s mostly a lot of pictures of water glasses and Donkey Punches, but they seemed like a good idea at the time.

Midtown and Union Square, December 2010

Playing with a new lens around the holidays…

 

Israel, 2008

My first trip to Israel, in 2008 (August, yikes). Like Alaska, it’s pretty hard to take a bad picture around these parts.

Unfortunately, because it’s been a few years now, the locations of some of these escape me. For the life of me, I can’t remember anything about these first few except that it’s the Mediterranean, and somewhere near Caesarea, which is in the northeastern part of the country. Also, I accidentally had my camera on monochrome for a while that day, so at least one of these is in black and white.

A Navy ship along the border

South Ferry, May 2011

I was all the way downtown (pretty much all of Manhattan is “downtown” from me so I feel the need to specify) a few weeks ago, waiting for the Staten Island ferry, and took a few pictures of this group of street performers while I was killing time. I think I came right on the tail end of their dancing, because this – one guy doing a flip over a group of people – was their Big! Event!

I tease, but it was actually pretty impressive…

Getting the crowd riled up

Alaska, 2008

I spent a month in Alaska in 2008, half of it kayaking in Prince William Sound. I tend to find nature, landscape photography much easier than people and urban settings – in part because I’m shy and you don’t have to ask a mountain or an ocean if you can take a picture of it, and in part because I often don’t have enough patience to wait for the precise moment to grab the best expression on a person’s face or stance of their body that makes most portraiture so interesting to look at (that’s something that I hope to get better at, and is one of my goals for this blog). I also like to think that I have a bit of an eye for setting and framing, but, lets be honest here. It’s pretty much impossible to take a bad picture in Alaska.

So, these will be a bit varied. I took tons while kayaking and camping (some even from within the kayak), and a number while in Valdez and Juneau in particular.

More Yoga on the rocks, island in Prince William Sound

So. No one is watching this yet, I’m assuming (unless someone just really likes that photo of Yoga on the rocks in my header), but I’m going to talk anyway.

I’m going to be using this blog mostly for practice, to keep myself committed to taking pictures and working with them, and just to have a place to put them. So often when I take my camera out and take a bunch of pictures they just end up sitting on my harddrive collecting metaphorical dust because I have nothing to do with them, nowhere to show them. So.

The first few posts are going to be a mix of older photos and more recent stuff, and eventually I plan to update as I take pictures and keep myself on a regular schedule (but we’ll see how that goes).