playlist:
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Trap Them - Seizures in Barren Praise
The Sword - gods of the Earth

I think I’m about 75% done shooting photos for the Rose City Fix book.

My buddy Adam and I started discussing a new book idea tentatively called "Last Years Youth". It’s going to be a compilation of interviews and photographs. Neither of us are journalists so, it's going to be interesting to see how it works out. We spent the better part of yesterday afternoon working on the overall concept and direction of the project.





currently:
Finishing old projects and starting new ones:
going to the gym:
riding the bike in the rain:
trying to figure out how a hair got in bewteen two of the elements inside my camera lens:

Listening to:
Danzig - I - IV
Botch - We Are The Romans
Thrice - The Alchemy Index
Film School - Hide Out
Jatun - Jatun

Watching:
Lord of the Rings
Battle Royale
Mad Men: Season 1

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Listening to:
Akimbo - Jersey Shores
The Copyrights - Make Sound
Cursed - III
Dvorak - Symphony #9

Watching:
Factotum
Charlie Wilson's War
Lord of the Rings
Legends of the Fall

Fishing on the clackamas river with Gabe and Jordan.









Listening to:
The Copyrights - Make Sound

Reflection in the window.

I thought this was pretty funny.

Sometimes it's good to just leave the shutter open and see what happens...

Last week i went fishing a few times with Gabe and Jordan. I shot more photos than i fished which is expected, i guess. I'll be posting more photos from these trips up here

Saturday was the first day i can remember that i had no plans. No work, no shoots scheduled. It was strange. I almost didn't know what to do with myself. After getting coffee at my Creama, my favorite coffee shop, I set out with my camera to walk around the Pearl and shoot photos. I love shooting this time of year. The light is constantly changing. Things go from sun to rain and back to sun.








playlist:
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Bronx - S/T
Mahler - #5
Aaron Copeland - Fanfare for the Common Man

kim and stephen

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It has been a busy summer to say the least. So much work has been done but so much more to do. I have a few more weddings booked until the season slows down for good. It will be nice to be able to focus 100% on other projects.

playlist:
Radio Dept - This Past Week EP
Young Widows - Old Wounds
Thrice - I, II, III, IV

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4 out of 5 aint bad..just one more to go

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It's quickly turning into fall around here.

Playlist for today:
Damien Jurado - Caught in the Trees
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Film School - Hideout

a view from low tides

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I took the day off to photograph the first latitude longitude event. They spent this morning at OHSU with Chris Klug and others hanging out with kids with cancer. I'm meeting Derek and Bryan at a wakeboarding demo they invited the kids to. It'll be a awesome photojournalistic opportunity. Plus i'm so excited to see where this thing goes and very lucky to be a part of it.


playlist for this morning:
The Bronx - ST
Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back

Driving home from hiking multnomah falls.


Today's Playlist:
Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Slowdieve - Souvlaki
Mewithoutyou - Brother Sister

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I shot this on my ride on last night. The sun backlit the trees and gave a really cool green glow around the silhouette of the trees in the foreground.


Playlist:
The Bronx - S/T
Alaska - Emotions
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
Fugazi - In On the Killtaker / The Argument

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I spent this last weekend in Astoria eating delicious food and bumming around wtih my family. It was, for the most part, relaxing. However, now it's time to get back to work. I'd really like to pour myself into the Latitude/Longitude project with my brother as well as complete work on my book. I have a ton of work ahead of me but i'm in no better place to make it all happen. I'll be posting more images form this weekend after work tonight.

Playlist:
Pedro the Lion - Control
Neurosis - The Sun That Never Sets
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Philip Glass - The Hours

Empty Suits

headless
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Listening to:
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radio Dept. EPs
Hoover - The Lurid Traversal of Route 7
Coldplay - Viva la Vida

super sonic sound system

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This speaker system, or whatever it is, sits on the Fed Bank downtown protland and i've always wondered what it was. I see it everday on my drive down Burnside on my way home from work. Every time i see it I get this feeling i'm in some post apocalyptic film based on a George Orwell novel.... or something to that effect.

In RCFX news: shooting for the book is going well. Maybe a bit slower than i had originally thought, but i really like the idea of letting the book develop on it's own. So far i've met some really cool kids and photographed some awesome bikes.

listening to:
Black Keys - Attack and Release
Radio Dept - EP's
The Good the Bad and the Queen - S/T
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Opeth - Watershed
Roots - Rising Down

place setting

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waiting for the bus

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sunset in the city

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I've been spending as much time as possible on my bike with my camera. So, i guess not much is new.