Last year @thejordanruiz came over on a hot June day and we shot a series of images for his album “On Top of a Tall Building with the Sun On My Face” which is out now!
This series of images came together pretty harmoniously. I was looking at renaissance portraits of people holding flowers, which gave me the idea to use a marigold I had growing in my garden. In Mexico, marigolds are known as the “Flower of the Dead” and guide the spirits of loved ones back to the world of the living. This felt apropos to the theme of Jordan’s album.
Sometimes we just need a little hope to hold onto.
@thejordanruiz it was such a pleasure to collaborate with you, and thanks for trusting me to put images to your very thoughtful and vulnerable body of work.
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New Still Life “Garage”
Stuff I found in my garage and shot on the garage floor. Is that a small figurine of Posh Spice? Might be. What random stuff is in your garage?
#garage #stilllife #stilllifephotography #fineartphotography #patina #poshspice #tools #plasticglove #golfball #horseshoe #lightbulb
New Still Life “Rone’s Studio”
Stuff I found around my mom’s studio and shot on the studio floor.
#stilllife #foundobjects #everydaytools #digitalphotography #naturallight #patina #artifacts #stilllifephotography #artstudio #makeart #notai
“Reaching” captures the fleeting space between connection and separation. A suspended gesture that exists both in longing and in release.
These in-camera double exposures explore the intangible nature of touch. Of reaching for someone or something that is no longer physically there. The shifting boundaries between self and other, past and present, physical and metaphysical. That liminal space between desire and surrender, clarity and fading, where a new way of sensing, seeing and becoming starts to form.
“Reaching” is a quiet portrait of presence in absence, of the beauty found not in resolution, but in the act of reaching itself.
These images are from my new series “What Remains, What Rises.” They are currently on view at the Morro Bay Library through September 25th.
One of the things I love and hate the most about film photography is you don’t know if you’ve fucked up a roll until it’s developed. The anticipation of waiting to see if what you captured in your head actually turned out or not. With every roll I mourn the images that didn’t make it and am humbled and astounded by the magic that created better images than I could have planned for. Here are a few that were touched by divine alignment.
These are purely accidental double exposures shot months apart.
RIP that corroding old fence with incredible texture at Topanga State Beach that probably burned down.
Thanks to @35mpro for their expert film development.
@andrrewwwwww@rockowheeler
#filmphotography #portraitphotography #doubleexposure #divinealignment #magic #happyaccidents #35mmfilm #400tx #kodak
Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers, but especially to mine. Your light burns bright, even in the face of shadows. Your strength unmatched. I love you @ronebird
“Where Did You Go?” - on show @decode__gallery Tucson, AZ Self Portrait Exhibition through May.
My cat recently passed away and she gave me the gift of witnessing her journey out of this world and into whatever comes next. After her death, I still feel her and see her in all her spots in and around the house, through my mind’s eye. Through mental images and feelings of how she smelled, how it felt to kiss her, the sound of her footsteps on the wood floor. Images and feelings that will inevitably fade and blur over time. This image is my translation of what that feels like. To be here, in this waking life one minute, and somewhere else the next. It doesn’t feel like there’s a physical barrier between here and there. It feels connected through something much deeper. Something that exists in the past, present, and future. But I also can’t help but wonder, where did she go?
Here are a few of my favorite shots from a couple weeks ago of @sheva.elliot Soul of a Woman show @harvardandstone
#livemusicphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bandphotography #rocknroll #tambourine #soulofawoman #harvardandstone @prismlensfx #dreamfilter #digitialphotography
Here are a few of my favorite shots from a couple weeks ago of @sheva.elliot Soul of a Woman show @harvardandstone
#livemusicphotography #bandphotography #rocknroll #tambourine #soulofawoman #harvardandstone @prismlensfx #dreamfilter #digitialphotography
Here are a few of my favorite shots from a couple weeks ago of @sheva.elliot Soul of a Woman show @harvardandstone
#livemusicphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bandphotography #rocknroll #tambourine #soulofawoman #harvardandstone @prismlensfx #dreamfilter #digitialphotography
2024 Recap: I reunited with the camera that made me fall in love with photography - my dad’s Nikon F2 AS. I shot a bunch of film (as much as I could afford). I experimented. I learned. I had a ton of throw aways, but I got a handful of keepers. Some of which became single art.
Shooting film reminded me to be more mindful of my captures and consider my exposures. I’ve never been a technical photographer, so film challenges me in that way. I’m thankful for in-camera light meters. I feel like I have a lot of room to grow as a film photographer. I like the challenges and I like the anticipation of having to wait to see if I “got the shot”. Looking forward to honing my craft in 2025.
