2010 New Castle Memories Car Show
Went out to shoot the 2010 Memories car show here in downtown New Castle on Sunday, 8/29/10. Before I go into details about it, I should say that I really am lucky to be living where I am in many ways. While not a bastion of urban style or trendiness, we do have easy access [...]
Droid Does Vintage
Bought a Motorola Droid 2 smartphone the other day. I had lost my prior phone sometime last week while on an outing with the fam, so a new one was in order. Good timing on my part, actually – my contract had run it’s course as of June, so an upgrade was due anyhow. To [...]
Lately
Quick post today of some recent photos. First is a night shot taken under the full moon. Pretty much straight from the camera except a minor tone adjustment here and there. Next are some shots I took while sitting at the park while the Ape ran around and played. Couldn’t go anywhere other than the [...]
On The Beach
Went with the family for the day up to Presque Isle State Park this past Friday. Erie, PA is only about 1.5 hours away due North, so we try to get up to the Isle at least once or twice a year. The beaches are very relaxing and offer a good number of photo ops, [...]
2010 Cars In The Park
Better late than never I always say. This time I have pics for you from the 8/1/10 Cars In The Park show at Boardman Park in Boardman, OH. This was a show I had heard about, but never attended before, and turns out it was quite good with a lot of beautiful cars, many of [...]
Chicago, Chicago!
Got into Chicago last night for Zack Arias’ OneLight workshop tomorrow, 7/12. Last time I was here was summer 2007 when I went to pick up my wife and the Ape after their return from visiting her family in Japan. In case you didn’t know, I lived here for nearly 20 years, mostly during my [...]
New Castle Cruise Night 7/2/10
Attended the second night of the New Castle Cruise Nights this past weekend. Held in downtown New Castle, 7/1/10 – 7/2/10, this event ran concurrant to the Back To The 50′s show that was also taking place in town at Cascade Park. Many cars present I saw at both events, and from talking to some [...]
RiverWalk Cruise Night 6/25/10
Went to the New Castle RiverWalk Cruise night last Friday. These are a regular cruise here in town every Friday from 5p-9p. They started out rather small, but now are getting upwards of 80 cars per cruise and things seem to be gaining pace still. Many fine folks there and some very nice local rides [...]
Product Shots And The End Of Days
Sorry, the title sounds really philosophical and ironic, but it actually is fairly literal. These are a few shots I did recently for the wife’s Etsy shop for her sashiko, plus a shot I took at the end of the day during a walk. Very deep, indeed.
Old Skool
A few weeks back I had the chance to shoot the demolition of the 111 year old Terrace Avenue school building here in New Castle, PA. The demolition was an emergency demo due to the fact that one of the walls had collapsed earlier, and thus the city had no choice but to bring the [...]
EZ PZ
Just a few recent snaps from the Yashica EZ-F521. Definitely a quirky little thing, but fun nonetheless.
Konica In Color
Went to the lake recently at Morraine State Park, near Butler, PA. It’s been very warm, so took the Ape to go swimming. Also took the Konica Auto-S with me since I have yet to try it with color film and I happened to have some handy. Let me tell you, I’m impressed! For a [...]
blackbird, fly
Wow, first post in a while. Truth be told, I’ve been busy taking pics for various projects and just haven’t had the time to sit down and write lately. Some of these I’ll share here shortly, but for now, it’s time for a bit of fun. What you see above is my latest acquisition, a [...]
A Walk In The Park
Playing catch-up on my backlog of unedited photos. These are from a day out at Mill Creek State Park in Youngstown, Ohio about a month back. The florals and the above photo (my favorite) are from the Fellows Riverside Gardens there. Well worth a trip if you’re in the region some day. And to wrap [...]
EMasterPhoto Wallpaper Selects Collection
Today I’d like to announce the availability of my first wallpaper collection CD! It contains 30 of my all-time favorite photos, individually sized to a variety of common monitor ratios and resolutions, and presented as black matted images when displayed on your screen (see below). Very elegant and striking, and a wonderful, practical way to [...]
2010 Spring Thing Cruise
Just posted up images from the 2010 Spring Thing Cruise at the Robinson Township, PA Bob Evan’s restaurant. This was a small cruise in that I stopped at after shooting the Spring ‘Vettes meet earlier in the day (pics to come shortly). Unfortunately, I only caught the tail-end of it, but even so, there still [...]
Yashica Digital Holga
Here’s something fun – how about a digital Holga for you? Interested? Here’s the scoop. First, it’s not a Holga, but a Yashica. And it’s not even a Yashica really as they’re just using the brand name for a mass produced lo-fi digicam. 5 megapixels(!). Movie mode! And an optical viewfinder. For just around $100. [...]
Shack Up
Just a quick post of some recent pics from the Canon Canonet QL17-GIII. Seen this shack millions of times since we moved here and always thought it’d make a great subject for shooting.
Test Shots
OK, uninspired title I know, but accurate. I got back the test rolls I ran through the Canon Canonet QL17-GIII and Konica Auto-S tonight. Overall, I’m very pleased with them – the exposures were pretty much right on in most cases, and when they weren’t they were just a little off, but no worse than [...]
Madness!!
I never meant for this to happen – honestly, I didn’t. I am in full-swing vintage rangefinder madness here, and there’s perhaps no end in sight. That’s good, right?! As you recall, it was just a few weeks back that I picked up a few film cameras after many years of avoiding the stuff to [...]
2010 Choppers Rod & Custom Show
I went and shot the Choppers Rod & Custom show this past Friday at the Soccer Sportsplex in North Olmsted, Ohio. The show ran all weekend and was a really interesting and intimate show due to the small show size and higher quality of the vehicles. For me, it was my first time to attend [...]
TEDxCMU
This past Sunday, Easter, I attended the TEDxCMU event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I attended mainly to see photographer Chase Jarvis speak, but there were a number of other worthwhile speakers as well. The event was a big success I feel, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, feeling that it gave me some [...]
Petri-fied
More Petri pics for you tonight! Got the second batch of shots back from the lab and they’re fairly interesting. This time I tried color and, yup indeed, it has that “certain” look to it that I was aiming for when I originally picked up the camera. The only thing I’m noticing is that the [...]
2010 Cleveland Autorama Pt. 5 (Final)
Posted the last batch of photos from the 2010 Cleveland Autorama show. Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked with some other work that took precedent. Being that this completes the set, below you’ll find a slideshow of all the photos, a link to the main gallery, and two shots of my favorite ratrod at [...]
