Sunday Morning Coming Down - 03/11/2012

I took some photographs at church this morning.

Jay and Rebecca are headed off to Africa this week to do missions work for 3 months.  Keep them in your prayers, they will be working with young girls that have gone through some horrible things in their lives.

5 Windows, 5 Walls

Views and non-views from 5 windows in my house.

A Night of Creation

Last night I had the opportunity to create with a friend who's been blessed with a beautiful home and a great studio space.  As some of you know these nights typically end up mostly in conversation but some work was generated, as small as it may be.

Before I went to Matt's home I prepped a couple of screens, for screen printing, to try and print from.  Here is one of the screens shortly after being exposed and cleaned.

So here's the concept, as literal as it may be, God is everywhere.  Therefore God Is Here.  In every situation in every atmosphere...everywhere.  I chose to attempt to start this series with the most obvious of obvious, God Is Here in prayer.  I like the boldness of the phrase as well as the contrast of yellow on black and white.  It feels strong.  I don't know if the image is 100% right for the project but its a good start.

Clean up.

I also sometimes try my hand at drawing and was feeling quite inspired...so here's a piece I threw down in a sketch book.  I was feeling pretty rusty with the markers but really needed to reconnect with the paper and this was a perfect opportunity.

Since I'm staying in this vein of creativity daily, ideas, concepts and work are beginning to come to fruition.  I'm excited and can't wait to see what God is going to do with me. God Is Here.

Vintage Me, Vintage You - Thanksgiving 2008

In 2008 we spent our Thanksgiving in Lake Tahoe with my wife's family.  It was great we had a blast.  Here are some of my favorites from that trip.

An iPhone and the New York Yankees

I came across this posting on a blog I follow yesterday and it blew me away.  Here's the link: Nick Laham.  Nick decided he would photograph the New York Yankees with...his iPhone.  He claims to have shot them with an "actual" camera, and I'm sure he did, but whats the point, these photographs are gorgeous.

He set up shop in a bathroom at the Yankees spring training camp in Tampa, FL, shot with a continuous light source and processed the photographs through Instagram.  Now you tell me, would these photographs be as appealing, or aesthetically pleasing, if they were gigantic high resolution files?  I think that there is something beautiful and nostalgic about the way they look.  And you can't really capture that unless you use something of a lower quality.  Not to say that the iPhone is by any way of low quality but from a camera standpoint there are obviously better choices out there.

It makes me look at and reconsider my obsession with camera gear.  Its all a bit unnecessary.

Ultimately Getty, one of the largest stock libraries in the world, licensed the images.  You can read a little more about that story on the f-stoppers blog.

I find it very impressive and I am inspired more and more by what people are doing with camera phones and Instagram.  Bravo to Nick for taking a chance and doing something really special.