Bus blogin'!

I've got a game plan for portfolio this quarter! I'm really itching to move on to new photo projects, but you've got to finish what you start before moving on to something new right? So this quarter my goal is to FINISH the secret series AND the bus series. I want to be finished shooting, editing, artist stating... I even want to know what kind of paper and size of print I want for final output. I'm talkin' DONE.

So here's where I stand with the bus images so far. I wonder what the collection of photographs will look like at the end of the quarter. I'm excited for expansion!

windows and mirrors

These images won't be fixed to actual mirrors, but I did get them printed on metalic paper from Mpix.com (very nice and VERY FAST printing, by the way).

During critique I think it was the general consensus that the double exposures might be a bit much for mirrors, but that they could still mesh well with the rest of the work for the series. I haven't made up my mind between window matting or flush mounting yet though. hmmm.

303!

I got to shoot the party photos for 303 Magazine's Gentlemen's issue launch party! I had a blast, and wanted to post a few.

Click here to go to the magazine's website to see more if you'd like.

Some New work and some OLD work!

I was going through very old photos tonight (instead of doing homework) and was able to put together a little time line of the secret series I'm working on.

The first series was shot in 2008! Say WHAT?! That's so long ago by now that I was literally still in Kansas (toto). I thought it was fun to actually see the progression over the years.

At the museum

Webbin' The Net has really kept me in the spirit of checking my blog updates more often and wanting to update mine as much as they do! These are old and have just been sitting in a folder for months.

Upside Downess

Thoughts on these images as diptychs anybody?


Sidewalks and suns shown in a different way than the way we normally see them in our everyday lives. I thought they made interesting pairs??

windows and meowzers

Focusing on focus--my teacher set my mind straight the other day in class. At first, I was only thinking of what to throw out of focus and forgetting what would, then, be kept IN focus. We had a little chat and my second shoot for focus is much awesomer. Next time the lazer tran printing begins! (I'm nervous.)

windows and mirrors

This quarter for photo design class I'm testing ole Mr. Szarkowski's theory of photographs as windows and mirrors. More specifically I am trying to see if a single photograph can be both a window and mirror at the same time. The first shoot for this project:
Micaela looking particularly angelic! The final images will be printed on Lazer Tran and then fixed to actual mirrors. The end results could be pretty weird... or pretty cool. Only time will tell

HAMBONE!

I have almost finished the next ice-secret photo and am really excited about it, but I can't blog it YET as it isn't done and ready. I just processed the film Monday, but things look good.

Since I don't like to make a blog post on my photo blog without a photo (and in the spirit of my blog's name):
My attempt at an ad for Pocket Wizards two quarters ago in school for advertising photogrpahy class. Like the lint roller before it this photo is a nice reminder that getting it wrong sometimes is part of the process. Reshoot! Ha!

Arists Wanted Competition

I put the secret images in to the Artists Wanted Competition and in addition to the grand prizes offered from the judges selections there are portfolio ratings and a People's Choice award worth 2,000.00! Go put stars on my portfolio already and help a brother out!

Click here to go to my online portfolio.

I've been annexed!

The Vermount Photography Workplace just had an opened themed exhibit jurried by Keith Carter. Forty photographs were selected to be displayed in the Workplace's gallery, and thirty were selected for an online annex gallery. All seventy photographs will be available in the catalog. One of my images was selected to be in the annex gallery! Check out the rest of the images in the exhibit by clicking here.

garyguild.com

Big updates at garyguild.com. I think I got caught up in the spirit of portfolio review at the Art Institutes graduation (which was really fantastic by the way!) and I've updated almost all the galleries with images. The Orphans gallery is still empty, but also still on its way.

secrets

I started photographing secrets frozen in ice a long time ago, first quarter in fact! At any rate, now that I know what I'm doing with a camera and a light I've revisited the series and am having a pretty good time shooting them.