Time to retire an old friend

I had not thought about it until I got together with long time friend and photographer Robin Loznak a few weeks ago and he said "you still have that same camera bag"

Yes I do.

My mom bought it for over 20 years ago when I was in college. Domke bags were, and still are the coolest bags to have. Nothing said I am a kick ass professional like a well used Domke bag.

It is the only bag I have ever used as a professional. I remember looking setting it down on a fire ant hill in Texas and it was covered with in seconds with ants that bite. It smelled like smoke for weeks after the Oakland Hills fire in 1993. I spilled a big bag of jelly bellies in it once and kept finding them for years it seemed. It has been to every wedding I have photographed, and every one of the 828 jobs I have photographed since quitting the newspaper 6 years ago.

But it is time to get a new one. it is faded, ripping at the seems. The strap has almost worn through. There are holes on the bottom and sides, and the dividers inside barely work.

But I won't get rid of it I am going to put it on a shelf in my office next to my old Nikon F3

My new camera bag will be the same a black Domke, that will last me until I retire in 20 years

A senior in the middle of Winter

Well I thought I was done with the class of 2010, but got a call from a mom in late December I had photographed her niece and her daughter need senior photos. Well after a few rainouts we finally had nice enough weather last Saturday. Megan was easy going and fun to shoot, we even did a few photo of her with her camera (she is a photographer herself) Here are two of my favorites.

Heart to Heart

The newest issue of Samartian Health's Heart to Heart came in the mail today. It is littered with lots of my photos. Here are a few of my favorites.

Fall Family photos

Photographed the Webster family last fall. Now that Christmas is over I am looking forward to leaves being back on trees.

CD photos

I had photographed Dave a few times before for his company InSightsNow, but when Dave called me in December he was looking for photos for a CD he was putting out. He wanted the photos outside to go along with the feeling of the album. We were scheduled to do it on a Monday afternoon, but Dave called early on the Thursday before because it was forecast to rain on the Monday and he wanted to know if I was free right then. Well shooting photos is a lot more fun then the work I had to do so we went out for an early morning shoot.

The thing is it was that week with the really cold weather in Oregon. It was 9 degree's out when we started. The batteries in my flashes would barley recharge. Dave had to hold his breath during the photos so the vapor would not show up. We did two different locations in about an hour and a half before we were both too cold to go on.

Am I Blue

Back to work, and blog postings. after two weeks off.

First off a better blue.

A professor at Oregon State accidentally discovered a new better blue dye. You can read about it here. I photographed him and his student late last month, and we wanted a blue feeling to the photos. Mas was great to shoot he gave me lots of time, let me stop by a few days before the shoot to scout out the location. I don't understand how or what they were doing when they made it but it is a cool looking blue.