Wasted Continuum

Something exciting happened to me this week. I had one of my photos used in a Men’s Health article. Wednesday morning, I was contacted by someone in the creative department to use one of my photos from my Flickr stream. I have been contacted before by various sites about using my photos before, but never by a national publication like Men’s Health. By Wednesday afternoon, the article was up and my photo was included with my name right next to the byline. This morning I woke up to a pleasant surprise. I was emailed again. This time I was told to check out the front page of www.menshealth.com. I was a little shocked when I saw that the article my photo is featured in was the top story. So for the whole morning of June 17th, 2010, my face was plastered front and center on the homepage of the Men’s Health website. It was kind of surreal. It may not be as big of a deal as I make it out to be, but to me, it means a lot. I am a self-taught photographer and I have worked really hard over the years to improve myself skills and knowledge in it. Having one of my photos published by major magazine like Men’s Health in a way validates my work and efforts. Whatever it means, it did make for a good week for me.

View the full screenshot from this morning

Today is an important day for Liz and me. It’s been exactly one year since the first time I tweeted Liz on twitter. I was following her for maybe a few days after reading her bio. I was very much taken by just that. I waited for the right moment to talk to her. One day, Aug 21st of last year to be precise, she tweeted a line from the song Handlebars by the Flobots. I tweeted this to her trying to be a little snarky, but not too much. I remember she replied to me thinking I was being literal when I was actually quoting another line from the song. Turns out she didn’t really know the song that well. I felt like a total dork and I thought I blew any shot of just being friends with her. Luckily, more so for me, we had incredible chemistry and my stumbling did not get in the way of it.

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I am once again showing at the Saint Paul Art Crawl this year. I will be displaying a small selection of my photography on Friday April 24, 6-10 pm and Sat April 25, 12-8 pm at the Lowertown Loft (studio 506). I will not be showing on Sunday, though the Art Crawl does continue on that day. Please come by to support me and the other artist displaying if you can.

St Paul Art Crawl
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If you are to betray me, stab me in the chest, not my back.

I saw an ad in a magazine today and I knew that I had to do a layout like that. This is a saying that I’ve always lived by. Continue Reading »

JPG Magazine is shutting down on Monday, January 5, 2009. They are my favorite photography magazine. JPG was a user based magazine where people submitted photos and were voted on by JPG users. There were amazing photos in every issue and I’m really sad that they’ll be going away. Right now you can download the back issues along with other stuff in PDF format. They will continue their Flickr Group. You can read the official post about it here. I’ll miss you a lot JPG!

I just finished my second Black and White Week project. I’m happy with the way it turned out. I learned a lot more on how much effect just a single source of light enhances a monochromatic shot. I definitely got more contrast. My first B&W Week project was not complete because I was interrupted by the Art Crawl in the middle of it. I encourage all of you photographers out there to try doing this or a similar project. I guarantee you’ll learn a lot from it.

Black and White Week II
Black and White Week I
Black and White Week Flickr Group
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