Man & Monkey

Taken 10/13/2013

Separated at birth?

(Yes, the light is far too harsh, but when you just happen upon a cool little bit of chimp graffiti you take advantage of the situation.)

Public Market

Taken 8/30/2013

One of my first stops on my Pacific Coast Highway Road Trip '013 was Seattle's famous Pike Place Market. Even though I was doing Seattle in a single afternoon I had to get a shot of the iconic "Public Market" sign.

Mom with Zenias

Taken 9/5/2013

A continuation of Sundays With Mom & Dad. Took some shots of my mother picking zenias out of the narrow flower garden my parents have on a strip of land between their and the neighbor's driveways. My dad likes them because his grandmother grew them behind her house when he was younger. It was at about this point I knelt down to get a better angle, had my knee/leg twist funny on some uneven ground and pulled a hamstring. Never in my life have I used the F-word in front of my parents with such reckless abandon. Maybe I'm too old to be a photographer...

 

A Rusty Bridge (with Jordan On It)

Taken 10/13/2013
East of Carlisle, IA

One of the major drawbacks to having a friend that's taken up photography as a hobby is you just might find yourself spending several hours of your Sunday morning or afternoon posing on a bridge while he figures out how to adjust the aperture setting on his new lens. Just ask Jordan. 

For my first "location shoot" with an actual human subject I took Jordan (who was nice enough to agree to this) to the rusty bridge I'd previously photographed. Figured I'd put people in front of things I was already comfortable photographing and see how that worked out.

The tasteful nudes taken on the bridge will follow at a later time.

A Rusty Bridge

Taken 6/8/2013
East of Carlisle, IA

The Iowa countryside is lousy with old rusty truss bridges like this one found on a gravel road east of Carlisle.

Self Portrait Through the Garage Door

 Taken 9/29/2013

The assignment for this week's photography class was to do a self-portrait. This is what I came up with...