aaron young

its been a year since the ring light first arrived on the social scene – its been a lot a fun and this last halloween was no exception. my friends are the best.

poker face.

sad-mysterious-hunky-vampire-guy (the ladies love this)

someone tell laura how pretty she is, i dont think she believes me.

john.

this captures nancy’s personality perfectly.

see the whole gallery here

michelle is leaving for a year to teach in egypt. we will all miss her and the rad egyptian themed party we had to send her off.

my good friend Darren is getting married to the coolest chick in the universe (except for my future wife who is still out there somewhere).

we spent the weekend lakeside in the desert with guns, wake board boat, some 4X4 action ( highlighted by my jeep getting stuck in the sand and pulled out with nothing other than the raw power of 12 dudes). yes.

i doubt it will make it a full three.

i got some black and white 120 film (yeah, i said film) for a camera that i have had sitting around for a few years. its a Minoltaflex 2B, manufactured and sold in what what then post-war japan in 1950 – the shutter still works so i was all to excited to figure out how to load and advance the film (the instructions online are all in japanese) and found a new dimension to my passion along the way.

shooting with this thing is a different experience entirely.
i am a child of the digital age, even with my relatively complex dslr i can point and shoot away, relaying on built in light meter and lcd screens to adjust exposure and reshoot. with this antique bad-boy you get 12 frames. and thats ONLY if you dont screw anything up (which i did) – the time it takes to set my exposure and find a focus had an unexpected result of letting my subject settle in a way that i have not seen before. forcing them to wait resulted in a completely different mood to the shots that i would not have gotten had i been firing away…
bobby.
i am looking forward to the slide film next.
i might have to buy a slide scanner if i keep this up…

halloween was way too much fun…. many thanks to all my photogenic friends

working for techroom at lcad ain’t all that bad, we have plenty of fun and being around so many creative people is downright contagious. more on the stream…