Putting the STUD in Studebaker

Noisy Self-Portrait in a Round Mirror with Ducts

It kind of looks like I'm an olympic medal of some sort.

Looking Up to Myself - A Self Portrait

Priceless Pursing Polaroid

This week's theme is Old School so I'm keeping it real with Polaroids and other old school styles replicated by Vignette for Android, the greatest Android photography app on the planet. The other consistency is that I haven't gotten out much since I've been processing all week so there's a lot of Hannah.

Shadow in the Park

In the desert on the way down to Las Vegas for WPPI. Fun!

Standing Tall

Self Portrait

Putting the STUD in Studebaker.

The Top 10 of 2010...Okay, the Top 23 Favorite Android Images of the Year!

I've had a lot of people ask me which images were my all-time favorites from the year. I have thought and thought til my puzzler was sore and this is what I came up with. I couldn't narrow it down to just 10.
What are the criteria, you say? Simple, they're my favorites. I don't have to have a reason. There are at least 50 more that could have made this post so maybe I'll do a part deux later, deal?

So here they are, my faves. I know, there are more than 10. I simply couldn't cut it down any further!

LOVE Chicago architecture.

My favorite self-portrait.

Yeah, my daughter is a princess, with or without the crown.

This image is just so clear and colorful that I can hardly believe that it came from a cell phone camera.

I love this one because I'm a huge M*A*S*H fan and saw this Korean War era ambulance just sitting in a driveway one day.

Definitely one of my favorites. Its makes the shopping cart seem like a person to me. I know what it's thinking.

The kind of sky that doesn't come along all that often and I was just thrilled that I had a camera. It was breathtaking.

The console of my car, labeled.

Ocean City, Maryland.

The Utah State Capitol building.

Night Light

Self Portrait by Monitor Light, (Red Monochrome)

Self-portrait by monitor light.

Dear Hannah

This photo isn't about the photo at all. (Hannah wouldn't sit still long enough to take a decent one.) It's about one of the most fun nights I've ever had.
Tonight, Hannah and I went on our first date. She said she wanted to go on an "abenture" while Mommy and Olivia went to a girls night out with Lori's friends. After a little bit of crowd-sourcing on facebook, the movie, Megamind edged out Chuck E. Cheese's for the destination of choice.
We had "star nuggets" at Carl's Jr., rode the carousel at Hollywood Connection, got a drink, some candy, and a huge vat of popcorn, and hunkered in for the movie. I chose the 2D version at a theater where the 3D version was being shown at the same time. Hannah's probably too young for the 3D anyway and I figured there would be very few people. I was right. There were three other families, all with young children. I think we all felt good about the fact that if someone melted down, the others would understand.
The story was a bit too grown-up for her so she lost interest about halfway in. That was the point where she started trying out each empty seat in our row one by one, just to see which one worked for her. She lost a shoe at some point, spent some time watching the movie standing in the aisle, then finally ended up on my lap for the last 2o minutes.
We held hands as we walked back to the car and I buckled her in. The night ended as I tucked her into bed and got my good night kiss.

This isn't a badly focused, badly angled photo. It's the one and only reminder of one of the greatest nights of my life and by far the best first date I've ever had.

Self Portrait with a Random Fire Truck

Not much of a story, really. I stopped at a gas station and there was a fire truck and an ambulance parked out front. I saw the shiny bumper and was intrigued.

Glammed-Self-portrait

The window at the Disney 365 store. I felt so cool just seeing myself in it!

Greater Than My Shadow

What's greater than my shadow?
Puppies? Ice Cream? U2? It's up to you.

Self Portrait with a Gimmick

Shot on a new app called Camera Illusion.
 It's fun and very different from other photo apps in the effects it offers but the app is quite gimmicky. File sizes are too small to be really useful. I will keep it for doing something crazy on occasion but mostly it's not an app I'll put on the home page.

Yawn.

I'm not sleeping much these days. Too much to do.
I'm tired.

Self Portrait with My New 7D

I was so excited to get my new Canon 7D! It is really an amazing tool and I can't wait to jump in and see what it can do.
To help in bonding our new relationship we did a photo shoot together.

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3 + 5 = Me

Here I am, 35 years after birth.
A little fact: My dad actually missed my birth because he was filling out paperwork and I was so excited about coming into the world I couldn't wait. Patience has been a tough thing for me ever since.

Too Much Hockey?

I've spent basically the last 48 hours watching hockey. I lived in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for two years then was the olympic team representative for the Slovak hockey team in 2002 here in SLC. I LOVE olympic hockey (albeit a little less this year on the smaller NHL-sized ice.) I'm even posting this photo during the period break of Czech Republic vs. Finland.
Perhaps it's too much?
Nah.

I took the self portrait and cooled it down then merged two photos in PicSayPro.
Now back to hockey! Go Czechs! Go Slovaks!

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A Little S.A.D.

The only way Seasonal Affective Disorder could be more appropriately named would be if the acronym came out to ANNOYED. I'm sure it's not masculine to admit it but every year about this time I start to feel SAD. It actually isn't sadness, it's more like annoyance at myself and the world. I love having time to work on personal projects (I'm going through all my fine art images from Europe) but somewhere in the back of my mind I have this nagging feeling that every last bit of my work sucks. It's horrible for the self-esteem. I wonder why anyone ever books me and I'm 100% sure that no one will ever hire me again. But eventually work comes in and things get going and I forget that I ever thought all my work sucked. It's good because it pushes me each year to do better and better work, but wow, it's tough on the ego. That's what I was trying to capture in today's image.
Did it work?