Sometimes Homer and I sit in the backyard for no reason. It’s at these times that I find I’m too lazy to focus.

This was one day a few weeks ago out at Cedar Park High School. I had a notion awhile back to continue my Musician series in another direction… it’s not a dead idea just yet. But on this particular afternoon, I found the trees rather interesting as I watched them practice Holst’s “The Planets”. (They sounded amazing, btw.)

UPDATE: I’ve since learned that they placed 2nd at 5A State Marching Contest. Told you they sounded amazing!

Along with many others, I’ve photographed this rotunda many times over the last few years. I think one of the only ways to make a capture interesting now might be to abstract it. I have a similar version taken a few seconds later, completely in focus where you can read the “T-E-X-A-S” around the star, and it’s like a completely different place.

Homer shaking in the backyard. Taken with a Hasselblad SWC/M medium format camera (built-in 38mm/f 4.5 CF lens) using Fuji Provia 100F.

Shot on a Pentacon Six TL, using T-Max 400 shot at 100, processed at 400. Toned in Photoshop.

Shot on an old Graflex 6×9, using Fuji Provia 100F. Image was forcibly cropped to a 6×7 by the mask.

I love shooting portraits. I was reminded of that this past weekend as I took the first set of senior portraits of my step-brother, Adam. We’re going to shoot some more in Orange at the end of the month, but these turned out pretty nice for my taste. Sure, you might not want to use them in a senior yearbook, but Adam liked them.

Shot on a Pentacon Six TL, using T-Max 400 shot at 100, processed at 400. Toned in Photoshop.

I started working for the House of Representatives Photography this past Friday. We don’t usually use a view camera every day, but the House isn’t in session, so I was able to take it out yesterday and shoot a slide on it. This was expired (year 2000) Kodak Ektachrome E100s.