Recent work

Sadly, I’ve been pretty terrible about updating my blog (and site with recent work) as of late. I’ve been very busy with all sorts of big life changes!

I’ve finished two major video projects for the university recently. The first has been a project for the past year or so; I’ve been doing it as a freelance project for studiolab. It’s about a major research project called iSAHIB.

The second project is more recent, and is about a video game designed to help people use less energy.

I’ve also been doing a ton of photography for all sorts of people (including myself). Here are a few that come to mind.

Ashleigh and Wes

SharkArm Brothers

Laura Making Desserts

Renee Kredell in the prop shop

Stuckeman Career Days

Philharmonic

Philharmonic

Stuckeman Advisory Council

Alumni Award Recipient

Halloween Tintype Shoot



The Pre-Halloween Tintype shoot was a great success! I made a ton of plates, lots of people showed up and enjoyed Laura’s delicious cookies, and we made some mighty fine images. Some Penn Stater Magazine folks even showed up! (see here)

I haven’t yet had a chance to varnish all of the plates, but I have the vast majority done. Some of them will be in a show starting this week out in Millheim (only about 20 minutes away for you State College folks). The above five images will be included in the Green Drake gallery’s “Under 30 : The Work of Young Artists” show. The opening reception is Friday November 4th. I hear there will be live music and other delightful things. [update : the show is now over. Thanks for everyone that came out and saw the plates!] And now, without further ado :






(Below this point I haven’t had the chance to properly rid the scans of dust)





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Three Musketeers

Today I finally got a chance to edit some of my photos from a shoot I did a couple of weeks ago. I took the poster photos for NRT’s production of The Three Musketeers. This is the photo composite I handed over to the graphic designer, as well as some of my takes on the “profile photo” photos we took to help with social networking for the show. I’m quite pleased with the results



Mammoth Plates



These are my first mammoth plates, both taken at a John Coffer workshop in Dundee. I used John’s camera, which weighs about 80 pounds and is permanently mounted onto a small wagon. They both measure 20×24″, and are made on aluminum. I’m excited at the prospect of being able to make more mammoth plates, but finding a camera, lens, and trailer to convert into a darkroom will be no small task.


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I haven’t been writing or posting pictures in quite a while.  I think that may have something to do with the level of media saturation that my job entails – I haven’t felt like sitting in front of a computer in my free time.

Fresh off 9 days of canoeing, I’m tackling some tasks that should have been done a while ago.  Sojourners* will notice that all albums of photos now allow low-resolution, watermarked images to be downloaded for use on facebook.  I’ve also been building new print packages into my smugmug site so you can save money when ordering batches of prints.  Currently there are two – 10 4×6′s with 33% savings and 5 8×10′s with 20% savings.  Expect some more package deals to show up in the next few days.

Speaking of Sojourns, both the Juniata and Susquehanna photos from this year are up.  I wasn’t officially working for either, so there are fewer photos than there would normally be.  I’d recommend checking them out, particularly the photos of the juvenile bald eagle on the Susquehanna.

I hope to be uploading the few trips that my website is currently missing.  This won’t make much of a difference to current paddlers, but I think I’m missing some trips from 2006 / 2007.  I’ll have to fire up an archive drive and see.

I’ll also be updating the portfolio pages on this side of the website and reorganizing things.  Don’t mind the dust if things look a bit odd.

There was good light in the studio tonight.  I’m starting to make sketches for my Dreamers self-portrait (the last in the series)

 

*For those who don’t know, Sojourns are fairly large organized canoe trips that take place in Pennsylvania.  They are often 6-8 days long, 100+ miles, and have 100+ participants.  They are generally organized by non-profit environmental groups.  This was my 17th year of paddling on these trips.