Margot, posing for me at a friend's wedding in Vancouver recently. She (and her sister) were flower girls. I have another shot around here that I like more than this one, though...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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Elise, unsure how to pose. Actually, I think she was eyeing the playground and was just humoring her father. It'll happen again, I'm sure.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Palm_Springs
During the wind storm in Palm Springs the pool filled up pretty quickly. They tried to keep it clean but gave up after a short while.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Palm_Springs
Another shot from the Salton Sea - shot on film with my Hasselblad 203. and the 110f2 lens. I have no idea why the colour went the way it did, but I do like the look...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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...sort of the quintessential view of Palm Springs - palm trees and the hills behind.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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I studied Art History in University - and one thing I spent a lot of time working on was modern architecture - you know, Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Johnson, etc. We looked at all kinds of houses and buildings and I was always taken at how beautiful they looked, especially the ones from Southern California.
Palm Springs, if you can look between the Mesa and the stucco-look buildings, has all kinds of amazing mid-century architecture. This is the facade of one of the (unfortunately, but hardly surprisingly) empty bank buildings on Palm Canyon Drive.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Palm Springs Trees
When we were in Palm Springs there was this EPIC wind storm - it must have been blowing 50 or 60 knots - high winds - The palm trees took it surprisingly well, with the exception of the old fronds that blew off - otherwise I don't think I saw a single palm tree blow over. Saw lots of other things blow over, though - trees, awnings, nose cones off of windmills...
Monday, April 20, 2009
Korakia Fountain
The fountain at the front of the Korakia Hotel in Palm Springs. It was pretty bright, and I love how the water drops are frozen in time - 1/2000 of a second, I think - pretty amazing from my old Hasselblad 203fe...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Some of the many windmills around Palm Springs. I wonder how much energy they generate...
Monday, April 13, 2009
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Another view of the Salton Sea - just at sunset. There is the most amazing light in Southern California...
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This was on the Beach of the Salton Sea - well, I use the term 'beach' advisedly. The shore is covered in barnacle shells, with a few fish bones here and there.
It's a strange place, the Salton Sea - I had an idea in my mind that it was going to be some sort of a series of ruins in a most romantic mid-20th century sort of a way. Full of old motels and tumble-down places... It is - in order to get to the beach in Salton City we had to meander down a number of roads, all of which obviously were laid out for the coming real estate boom that never happened... Beach Vista Road; Beach View Road; Beach View Crescent - you get the idea.
...but it's not entirely deserted. There are some newer houses there, some old ones, too. Many of the houses, new and old are deserted, with foreclosure notices in the front windows, and George, who was traveling with us pointed out that most of the people who live around here probably have a gun for protection. It was much more a statement of fact than a commentary on the area - we were a LONG way from any sort of police station or any help whatsoever.
Beautiful place in its decay, but much more sobering and real than I had envisioned...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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The interior of a DC-3 at the Canadian Museum of Flight.. I love the old fabric - straight out of the 60s. It was actually surprisingly roomy in there. I always thought they were more cramped.
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I was wondering how to shoot this plane - it's a Handley Page Hampden from the The Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, BC. It was dredged out of 600 feet of water many years ago and then rebuilt.
However, a snowfall in December snapped the wing on the left side and damaged it quite significantly. I think it'll take a while to put it back together, but at least they're not starting at square one again...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Margot Jan_09 048
I was on a hat kick. This is Margot, of course, with a borrowed hat - one of three we took last week that I thought worked pretty well...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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Film, same wall - I have to thank Evaan Kheraj for painting this wall for a shoot he had - we share a studio. The colour is great.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Polaroid_Scan_03
I did some testing last week - something to keep me sharp, I suppose. I wanted to shoot of the last of my Polaroid Type-55 black and white film but it was all kaput - I only managed one frame out of about 8 or 9.
However, I did have some old Fuji Instant film - it's a bit magenta because of the age, but it looks pretty cool. I just scanned in the print. Of course, there is the small matter of dust and scratches and some very prominent thumb prints, but I still think the shot is nice...
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Rasberries
Old shot - I took this years ago of my sister-in-law's hands and my Mother-in-Law's garden. The berries were fantastic. I shot this just after sunset - one of my favorite times of the day from a light point of view. You only get a couple of minutes but that strange blue hue you get from a bright summer sky is pretty cool...
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Another shot from the Summer on Polaroid Type-55 and the Linhof. I love the dropoff of focus in this image.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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