I NEED to ROCK my TRAY

I miss the Darkroom more then I thought possible now that we live in the digital age. I long to go into the Darkroom and make me a stack of tasty FIBER PRINTS when I mix chemicals for the students every morning. Nine hrs later when my day is done I'm so sick of looking at crappy student RC 8x10's I could PUKE!!!! My mind has turned to mush after looking at poor student work and I just want to escape and go home. I haven't given up on making me some FIBER PRINTS in the

the DARKROOM I just need to find where I placed my FREE TIME.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

The Photo Lab I work in is down in the BASEMENT. I miss the sunlight and looking out a window. Instead I have a View of a creepy hallway and the elevator door. When I'm by myself and turn off the radio you can hear the building make noises. yes this place would make a wonderful Haunted House come Halloween.

Fake Fur-Real Smile

I live in SUNNY CALIFORNIA but Damn its been cold. Plus its been raining cats and dogs!!. There was even a tornado warning in the OC. The only bright spot for me is everyone is breaking out the WINTER COATS! This makes for great PORTRAIT opportunities.

Alexandra has a wonderful SMILE and I love the way the Coat Hood frames her Face...

This Image was a can't miss as long as I remembered to wait for the SMILE :-)

NO FEAR

It was cold and damp this morning in LA so I think this Photo of my Nephew will work. A few summers ago I took Him on a Summer Road Trip up the 5 fwy to Seattle. We took PCH back down the coast to see Redwoods, Dirty Hippies and of Course San Fran. After riding all day in my 2006 SCION Xb I don't think we smelled that good either. It was good to get out and stretch our Legs.

Me Myself and I

This has to be the best self portrait I've ever done of myself. It was shot in Edwards driveway in Paramount. I borrowed his sunglasses, set the self timer, then quickly ran around to the front and counted to 10 and tried not to laugh. The lens distorted my forehead but its ok with me my hair is going away and theres not much you can do about it. I promise you I WILL NEVER EVER SPORT THE CLASSIC DONALD TRUMP HAIR SWIRLL!!

Pixel my ASS

I use Film Cameras. That's Right Film! So if I take a photograph of you I must Develop the Film then make a contact sheet and pick out which frame I want to PRINT!! None of that looking on the back of the camera to see your digital image. I have the MONEY to join the Future but choose to make photographs as I always have. I get a certain satisfaction to hear and feel the click of the shutter. I enjoy the tactile feel of FILM and the PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.

There is nothing like the smell of Photo Chemicals as you WORK to make a PRINT. Yep I'm old school and LIKE IT!!

The Futures So Bright...............

Edward is the BEST. We talk photography,art,music,food,fashion and that silly topic LIFE... He even shares my Lust for Polaroid Cameras and using them. Poor Edward will even stand RIGHT THERE!! and wait while I fool with the Camera. He then waits some more till I think it's the RIGHT MOMENT..... Then I Quickly Press the button.

... FLASH-CLICK...

Another Cool Polaroid 600 Portrait.

WINK-WINK-NUDGE-NUDGE

I Enjoy a good Laugh. If you can make me LAUGH or play along with a Silly Idea, Your my kind of people. Sometimes the Ideas work and sometimes they are real stinkers!. I was thinking the bubbles would show much more! But I could not have asked for more out of Sarah and Kara. They were a real hoot and the nicest girls to work with. The polaroids are goofy and the expressions still put a smile on my face. Overall it was a Great Day!!!!

The Roof

Paulina was her real name and she was such fun to work with. I took tons of Images of her. It was hard to understand her sometimes due to a really think English Accent. We also did some on the Roof of the Royal Academy of Art in London but we had Crappy weather and it started to Rain!! I laughed when she said " HEY YOU CRAZY AMERICAN LETS GET OUR ASSES INSIDE MY HAIR IS GETTING WET!!!" That I understood as a bolt of Lightning lit up the sky!

This is one of my Favorites of her that I did in the studio before we tried to do it on the ROOF.

MM meets the LINHOF

Its not every day I get to Photograph the #1 Marilyn Monroe impersonator in all of Great Britain. This was done in the mid 1980's when I did a study abroad trip to The Royal College of ART in London. This Image was my Idea and I set up the studio to look like this. I used the schools Linhof Technorama 120 camera. It got only 4 shots per roll of film.  It was a Fantastic 3 months spent Studying Photography and Photo History.

Don't worry I spent a lot of time having non photo fun too!!!!!