Laguna Middle School, shot about 1pm. 17mm,  F2.8, 1/2500

I love the moments when I take my shot, and I look around, and people are looking at me, trying to figure out what I see. I love taking pictures of things in a way that isn’t the way everyone else would shoot it. And I love looking up. The first shot was taken at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the second, at the Getty Center, also in Los Angeles.

This is a quick shot from a long time ago. I took a trip with a couple of really good friends. We went to the city, hung out, ate food, walked around, gave leftovers to a homeless guy, and generally had an amazing time. BART is an awesome place to people watch, whenever I’m on the train I always see people that I want to ask if I can take their picture, and I never ask. Maybe one day.

I have such amazing friends that are not only willing to do weird shoots with me, but get excited about it. I’m not sure where the idea for this came from, but I had this image in my head and it wouldn’t leave me alone until I shot it. I think the best thing about doing photo shoots is that you get to play pretend, but instead of the end of it being snack time, the end is sweet pictures to show off. I guess there’s pluses to both of those scenarios. Special thanks to Allie, Mark, and Ryan for modeling, to Eric for critique, and to Katie for doing hair, makeup, costuming, etc.

No, no, not a shoot with small proportions. One that involves a classic Mini, the British kind. Like in The Italian Job! No, no, the old one. Anyway, here’s my shot from the whole thing:

We ran out of light pretty quickly, but Jake got a couple shots that I did the post-processing for.

Katie is an extremely fun person. She wanted to do something a little bit different to send out with her thank you’s and this is what we came up with. Take it as a commentary on today’s economy, the difficulty of graduating with a B.Arch, a bit of playful fun, or however else you want to interpret it.

A while back I assisted on a wedding and subsequently had a picture published on The Sassy Bride. I’m pretty excited and thought I’d share. Here’s the pic I took, retouched by Jake Odening (the photographer I was assisting). Thanks to all involved, and congratulations again Natalie and Garret!

Had some trouble figuring out who to give these to. So much that I decided to give away more than I was originally going to! So congratulations to JH, Eric, and Justin! I emailed all the winners. Thanks to everyone who participated!

I love Andy Warhol’s work, and JJ Abrams creativity (and craziness) blows my mind. I came up with this idea a while back, didn’t do anything with it for a really long time, and then rushed to get it done by today! In order to be faithful to Warhol’s work, I knew I had to screen print these, which I’ve never screened onto paper, I’ve never used water based inks, and I’ve only screened shirts twice. This was a really fun and challenging project (I never want to print two colors with a one color press ever again).

And now for the good part, you can win these! I’m giving these away, just comment below and I’ll pick the best ones. One poster will be given to the person that comes up with the best story about the Dharma shark. Two posters will go to the person with the best “My friend would love one of these!” that isn’t “My friend is completely obsessed with Lost OMG!”

Here are the facts: 2 color screen print, 12″ x 18″ untrimmed, limited edition of 40, hand numbered, French Paper Smart White, comment by 5.30.2010 at 9:00pm PST.

Update: My good friend Narineh is giving away a couple of my posters. Enter her poster contest!

I haven’t lived in the bay area for almost five years now, but San Francisco still has that special something. I really enjoyed my time working in the city, and I generally enjoy the times that I’m back to visit. I even enjoy driving in the city, there’s that thrill and adrenaline rush that only comes with fairly skilled drivers driving recklessly combined with semi-skilled drivers that have no idea where they’re going. Here are a few pictures from a while back. Enjoy!