Wasted Continuum

This was taken outside of Salut in Saint Paul. I was there to celebrate my mom’s birthday. There are more photos on my Flickr.

I took this photo earlier this month after dropping my friend off at the airport. The sun was just rising and the whole park was foggy. This little flower caught my eye. There are a few more photos from this morning on my Flickr.

Last week, I decided to process some photos that I took a few months back at Como Zoo. They were taken with my Canon 5D using a 24-105mm. When I first looked through the photos, I was disappointed that a lot of them were flat, lacking contrast. I was not surprised by this being that a lot of the shots were taken indoors with low florescent lighting. Instead of not publishing these shots or even just publishing boring photos, I decided to take this opportunity to push Lightroom a little further than I usually do.

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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.

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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.

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