New series & bigger prints!!!!

Here are a few images from my new series "Sea Life". This will be an ongoing series throughout the summer that I'll be adding to, similar to the Little Zoo. It is currently available at my online shop & etsy shop as both prints and boxes.

I've also started to offer a new print size, 12"x12"! I haven't updated all my images yet, but if there is an image in particular that you'd like at 12"x12", please send me an email.

Poppytalk Handmade

It's sunny here in Portland, the first time in about a week. When I saw it wasn't raining this morning, I scrambled to get my stuff together and go photograph. It was so nice to be out in the sun. 2 rolls of film later and some very soggy sneakers and I'm back home and back to scanning.

This month I'm part of Poppytalk Handmade. The theme is eco friendly, green, spring time goodness. The folks over at Poppytalk do such a good job of creating a talented and diverse collection of work. I always find about a dozen things I'd like to have around my house or on my body. Below are a few of my picks.
Vintage dart board from Ladies & Gentlemen, Caoba top from Zelaya, Owl Under Glass from kg & ab, Double Songbird from Dolan Geiman.

Winners!

Thank you everyone who left such nice comments on my blog. I really enjoyed reading all of them. And now the winners of this month's giveaway are Shannon, Amy & MadOrange. Amy, if you could please email me, I haven't been able to find your contact information.

For those that didn't win, there will be another giveaway next month and every month to follow. And if you're antsy, my friend Misha is having a giveaway on her blog. The image below is one of her new holga prints.

I'm off to the darkroom to develop a bunch of film I still have from Moab. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

March showers make me photograph flowers

New flower images that I've been working on. I can't seem to stop buying bunches of ranunculuses. I hope to have some new ones posted in the shop this week.

This weekend I participated in the Portland Urban Iditarod. The race consists of about 3 miles, 5 pub stops and teams of 5 pulling shopping carts through the city. A friend of mine was on a team that was short a person, so I ran down to the the east waterfront, put on a sheep costume (we were Little Bo Peeps sheep, but somehow we were bloody and Bo Peep was a butcher....I didn't really get it) and then ran with a shopping cart all over Portland for the afternoon.... only in Portland do these events seem to happen. You can see pictures on flickr from Squid Vicious (thankfully I'm not in any of these). It was tons of fun, hilarious costumes and some good times. I think next year I'll be photographing the event, not running in it.

Winners will be announced tomorrow for the giveaway. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments.

Give Away!

My work is on the cover of this book. Printed by Comma Press a small non profit press in England.
I have uploaded more Moab pictures to my flickr site. I'm about 1/2 way done scanning these pictures in, bear with me : )

I have decided that it is high time I did a giveaway! In fact, I decided that I'm going to do a giveaway once a month, every month! (Shameless self promotion? maybe, but I view it as brightening your day : ) So to start us off, this month I will be giving away 3 sets of notebook #2 & 3 notecards. All you've got to do is leave me a comment (any kind of comment will work) on this post by next Monday (March 16th). Three winners will be chosen at random.

Type 600 versus Artistic TZ

Here are a couple of images from my trip to Moab taken with Polaroid Type 600 (600) and Artistic TZ (ATZ). The 600 was shot with a Polaroid SLR680 and the ATZ was shot with a Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera Model 2. This is just to give you an idea of the different qualities of the film.

The 600 is closer to the true color of the day, however it more yellow than the real color (Regretting that I didn't take my digital to show you a better comparison). The ATZ is much more cooler, but the sky has a weird yellow/reddish cast that almost looks like film fogging.

Here is a close up of the film. The 600 has what I like to call, Polaroid blobs (like grain or dpi, but much more of a painterly quality) that blend together to create a pretty clear image. The ATZ looks like a really old oil painting that's crackled between the blobs. Especially in blue areas, the crackling is a darker brownish red line. The crackled look isn't consistent throughout the film.

Same time of day, similar exposure. The 600 didn't pick up the blue in sky, it went a bit purple, even though I held this against my skin while I developed it (a trick when it is cold out, put the back of the film against your skin to keep it warm while it develops, just make sure you don't scratch the front). The ATZ went yellow with red streaks.

ATZ tends to be streaky. I found that it tends to look darker as it develops and lightens after a minute or two. It also tends to shift in color. I scanned these a week ago and since then they have all gone pinker in the center and the shadows have lightened. ATZ is also manipulable, I didn't manipulate any of mine, but you can see how to at Freestyle.

You can see more of my images from the weekend over on my flickr site.

Good intentions

Canyonlands in 2 Polaroids, type 600 film

I had good intentions of doing an Artistic TZ to 600 film comparison this week, but the week got away from me. I've included two images that I shot the same day, but in different places for you to see (for a better view, check out my flickr). I will work on it this weekend and post it this weekend or the beginning of the week. In the meantime if you're located in the Northwest, you can check out my Letting the Horses Loose work at the Belmont location of Stumptown or Velouria in Seattle. If you aren't located anywhere near there, you can check out Photojojo's lovely newsletter of 20 photographer's whose work you can actually afford (I'm one of them!).

Canyonlands in 3 Polaroids, Artistic TZ

New Horses!

Horse #21

There are new horse prints available in my shop. I have spent the past week getting these images ready for a show at the Belmont Stumptown in Portland and Velouria in Seattle. I'm excited to hang these up and see them all together.

Horse #19

If you like big prints, these are all available at 20"x20", limited editions of 25. Please email if you're interested, as they are not online.

Horse #18

I've been slowly getting through paperwork and scanning all the images from Moab. I shot so much film, that I haven't even developed the black and white rolls yet. I know if I do I won't finish scanning all the Polaroids and color film.

Horse #17

I'm working on posting a comparison of the Artistic TX vs. Polaroid 600. I hope to have that completed and ready to share tomorrow.

Horse #16