Thus, I feel as though credit for “greatness” is often bestowed upon modern-day photographers whose work may soon lose its appeal and become utterly insignificant, while those who are producing great work may fly under the radar and never be noticed by the general public.

Really nice, thoughtful post over at PetaPixel on what greatness is and how we’re so quick to bestow it.

I’ve just joined up with Etsy to sell a few of my prints! I’ll be adding more as time passes, but right now I’m having a “Hi, I’m New Here!” sale and everything’s discounted.

Have a look around my Etsy shop and give the economy a little stimulation, would you?

Monday

I got the photo “Zombies” from Ruipalha’s photo stream, the quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray. The quote reads:

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Tuesday

Tuesday’s was a pretty fun one. The quote was from Joanna Field and reads:

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Here’s the original photo.

Wednesday

Wednesday’s photo took me to the beach and brought me to some fun medieval type. I had fun playing with the type. Here’s the quote:

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Thursday

Thursday’s cover was a little interesting, The title of the article was “Inside Wants Out,” which happens to be the name of an early John Mayer song. Here’s the photo, as well as the quote from Ambrose Bierce:

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Friday

I had lots of fun on this, and was really lucky to find this photo. It was pretty fun working with it, and the rest of the content was pretty much golden! Here’s the quote from Dante Gabriel Rossetti:

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

Let me know if you end up continuing this exercise, I’d love to see your results!

I ran across this fantastic collection of photographers today. Michael Ash Partners Photographers cover about every kind of photography you’d need in any kind of project—and all of them are aces.

I loved Markku and the Dennis Manarchy sets a ton. I think I could easily blow a couple hours browsing here.

After much planning, thinking and a little swearing I’m thrilled to share my new portfolio site with you. It features design work, photography and some other goodies!

In the coming weeks, I’m going to be adding more work as well as other fun enhancements. I believe you’ll be pretty pleased with it all.

Have a look at the new site!

• Design
• Photography
• Heh
• Movies & Music

You can make 3d environments that you can explore with only a simple digital camera. I’m hoping to try this out soon! It looks really sweet. Nice one, Microsoft.

I’ve updated my Flickr to show some photos from my good friends Hans and Christyn’s wedding!  Highlights include me capturing a mob fight with the groomsmen (it was friendly!), earning the title of “photo ninja,” and generally sweating to death in such hot weather.  You can view the whole set on Flickr.

I’m back from gorgeous California!  We had an amazing time, and I took lots and lots of photos.  This one’s from Big Sur, a freaking beautiful beach.  I hear it’s been in lots of movies, and I can really understand why.  It was breathtaking.

I also saw the new Indiana Jones movie.  It was pretty fun, with a few minor outlying little things.  I kept hearing that it dealt with Scientology, and can now see what everyone was saying about that.  It still was good, so I’d say go watch!

Here’s the one circulating:

Followed by the original:

How you can spot the fake:

• Look closely at his sleeve where the phone cord used to be, and you’ll see a slight bump where someone brushed out the phone cord.
• Look at the wall, you’ll find the clock it set to 3am, and in the original there actually isn’t a clock to begin with, nor do the lack of shadows around it make it look real at all.

Shame on you bad Photoshoppers! :)

Last week I wrapped up all the post production on the photographs for this movie, and have never been more pleased to show them. � Just FYI, it’s pronounced “sul-shay.” � Here’s are a few, you’ll be seeing more soon!

The rest are posted after the break!

I’ve been really busy lately on the set of a film called “Image Mind Light.”. I designed a lot of the graphic elements in the film, from logos to currency, as well as provided some promotional photography. It’s an amazing film with a great cast and a top-notch crew! They’re even using those hot Red cameras, so everything looks amazing. Plus, my hot wife is in it!

Image Mind Light is a film about a civilization on the decline. Everything is run-down from wars and changes of power, and it’s a poor society. People have been medicated into sedation and complacency to work and not think about life, but there are those the struggle against what’s going on. And it’s a great story, the script is fantastic.

Here are a few photos from the set, more will be coming as we wrap tonight!

Be sure to view the rest of this entry to see all of them.

New photo on flickr!

Since I moved to Seattle, I’ve always wanted a good shot of this, and yesterday I finally got it. I shot this from the car. I have a reaaaaly bad habit of doing that. But lots of my favorite shots have been taken that way! I’ll have to make a post dedicated to that sometime soon.

Enjoy!

An interesting and somewhat depressing look at some movies being remade that you likely haven’t heard of just yet. � I can’t believe they’re looking at remaking Conan. � I know it went to TV, so why would there be a need for a remake? � Also, I’m pretty sure there are lots of amazing new scripts out there so I wonder why no one would take these out for a spin.

Hot on the heels of adding video to their site, Flickr have added a code site which lets you browse through some of their open source goodies. � I know the API site has been around for a while, so it’s nice to see that it’s more public-facing now.�

Perhaps more entertaining: � make your own Pinhole cameras! � It should be known that I have a camera fetish, and on top of that it’s tough to take a pass on making your own pinhole cameras! � I’m glad the folks at Corbis did this! � Check it out!

Here’s an “image” some online genius created of Homer Simpson image made entirely with CSS. � The cool thing about this image is that there are absolutely no images involved. � It’s all CSS, and totally amazing. � How someone comes up with an idea like this is beyond me, but completely blows my mind. � Yay for CSS and for this guy’s creativity.

Also, I found this image of some train tracks in Frankfurt that I thought was pretty interesting. � The complexity of all of those tracks is pretty neat, and also pretty hard to believe that it’s real. � I’d hate to be the guy who pulls the wrong lever day and derails/reroutes all the trains. �

Totally awesome turn of events: � you can now post your videos to your stream and show them off with all the neato interaction and community Flickr has. � See above video of my two favorite wizards for reference.

I’m not a video guy mostly; however, given the chance (and a camera) I’d go nuts. �

Their servers were getting hammered when I saw it, but I’m sure it’s better now. � Check it out!

New photo on flickr.

And thanks to the fine folks over there for having me on the site! � I’m honored.�

Before:

The original photo was actually the last shot I took in the shoot, and took it on a whim. I asked my friend Emilie to put the flowers in the field (that’s her on the side) and shot away! The results were really astonishing when I began to play with it in PhotoShop. I hope you aren’t sad to learn the sky wasn’t really there. :)

And here’s the final shot:

You can see images from the rest of the shoot here. Prints of “If Only” are available if you’d like. Just name your size.