More 2 1/4 work. After working so exclusively with a 4x5 for years I am amazed at how much more work I make with a portable camera. My favorite image on this roll is the one of Daniel smoking a cigarette on the top. I have made quite a bit of flash work with this camera but I have not digitized it yet.

This is another image from my family album project. One of the responses I got was "oh, you used that Photoshop filter"....and I was like, damn it, no, I didn't but there is really no way to tell that these effects are done in camera. I am hoping that as I continue with the project the qualities will vary enough that they wont look "Photoshopy".

On another note, this is my mom and dad. It is the only image I have of them together. The photo itself has become an object that I cherish as it is a memory I do not have. I was really happy with the long exposer that made their faces unrecognizable because them together is a phantom of my imagination and past. I have no recollection of my parents being together and I love the way this image begins to illustrate that wishing to remember.

What a weekend it was in Portland, ME. I can easily remember April's where it snowed, and this weekend it hit 80 degrees, twice! It was time to till the garden plot and add seeds to the soil. I hope to make many images of the garden this year as it grows wild. These are simple images for sure, purely a documentation of me digging in the dirt. Digging in the dirt feels so good, it was worth making pictures of. I especially love the one of me wiping my forehead with my cow manure encrusted hands.

Four images from a roll I took this weekend. A project is definitely begging to take form.

I have been working on a book, 20 Something. When it is complete it will be available from Blurb. I am still proofing images and editing. These two images will be in it as well as some of the images from a few posts back. I am so excited for it to be done. It was a super fast and sloppy project, which is just what I wanted to do. No over thinking it here!

For the past couple weeks I have been shooting with my little Yashica LM 2 1/4. I was in a real photo rut so I tried a little trick I heard; put a handful of film on your dresser on Friday and make sure it is all shot by Monday. Well. it worked, it got me shooting. I really like what I have been doing lately, it is very simple. I don't have a statement of any sort yet, but after the summer I should have a nice little body of work. I have not made enough yet to edit down a solid grouping, but these are just a few from a roll I shot this weekend. The work has got something to do with my perspective of the place that I live and the small oddities within it, this will include more personal images too.

I have been doing some experimenting lately. These are a few pieces I did about family. I think they are both the beginnings of something very different for me. I had so much fun making these. Writing about my parents felt like a relief, and recording the images of their path made made me feel like I had some how experienced it. I make so many images all the time and to simply make something with the photographs I have made and collected felt free and easy to do. Sometimes we get so reliant on one way of making that mixing it up a little can be all you need to re-spark your imagination.

This weekend I found my self at a Dinosaur Jr. show, which was incredible. The mix of people there was great, balding men, families with kids, and of course the younger crowed that dreams of being part of a music scene as good as the early 90's. These two ladies were standing in front of me, they reminded me of being sixteen, and reminded me that I am almost ten years away from sixteen.