...and...

....and there's been grilling and picnics...

Summer Baby! Summer!

July- smack down in the middle of the 3 months that, at least temperature wise, can get warm enough to constitute summer in MN. This has been one crazy July~ there will be more posts to follow but for starters, there were 3 different shoots I was @ on the 4th...

"There's Treasure Everywhere"

On this Friday, before setting out for a weekend of exploring back-country southern MN, I thought it only appropriate to nod to the great sense of wonder that only Calvin and Hobbes can articulate. Have a great weekend all!

A Moment of Ambiguity

No Foto Today. I've ingested the work of a handful of fantastic photographers today and all the work I liked supported a conclusion I've recently been conjecturing. Good photography really is in the midtones- not every stellar photo has to have that huge hump in the middle of your little histogram to be amazing. However, really strong photos, ones that tell the best story and leave you with the feelings of 1) DAMN and 2) life will be alright if this pic became reality right now, those are the ones that are like god-vision (used loosely)- you can see everything all at once but still find yourself hovering on the most important subject. *Just Saturate*
Qualifying remark- photos that represent every tone equally are so stable they're unnerving- good or bad, too intense...

Film is still unique in the capability of producing this fantastic "realm of the universally described"- transfigured.

If this is too much rhetorical bulls*t- check out work by Peter Frank Edwards, Alec Soth, Spencer Combs, or Lou O'Bedlam...'

Best o' Luck

Brent and Tracy

Engagement shoots are honestly one of my favorite shoots to do!  (This one, I was assisting a friend and wonderful fotog, Rachel Nadeau - www.nploft.com)  The next one will involve three things~ a random portable leather chair (thanks Rachel!), a bottle of wine, and a least a few packs of gum...ha!

This was probably me...

Yeah twenty years ago, this would have been me- chocolate and all, sine dubio.

RED MEAT!

This single trotter of dry cured pork was worth like $300- it dissolved on contact w/ tongue. Crazy.

Getting things started, top down-
1. My friend and awesome 'Sconi-turned-Minnesotan musician, Sarah Pray
2. Joe Zayes, post-fight banged-up nose. MMA- everyone should see one fight in their life.
3. When I leave B-town, my next move is to Wayzata...

This is the begining.

ALRIGHT.  This is post 1!  Here we go...