Thanksgiving day in Greenville, SC on the back porch.

After Hurricane Rita

It was pretty wild to see these massive transmission line towers crumpled up like coke cans across the water. This was by far the worst one, but most of them were just bent over about halfway up.

Sorry about the general crappiness of the photos here lately. As you can probably tell, I wasn’t really trying to make art when I went home last. I’m glad I took the cameras, but I won’t be exhibiting these photos anywhere.

After Hurricane Rita

I had no idea this Jack in the Box sign was so massive. Of course, it was clear that the pole was big enough to crush a Jeep, but the sign itself was unreal. I actually saw a photo of this image online before I headed to Southeast Texas, and I intended on taking this shot from that moment.

After Hurricane Rita

Another image of Orange post-Rita. This one was taken in my mother’s bedroom. The eerie thing was that their house was completely the same inside, with the mere exception of no air conditioning and a lack of all basic utilities. You could walk throughout the house and only by passing a window would you be reminded of the destruction that remained outside.

The print of this image shows more detail in the shadow areas than my monitor allows, but you might experience different results. The information is certainly in the negative.

After Hurricane Rita

I shot a good number of images with my Digital Rebel, but really only prefer those shot on film for display here and on my “professional” site.

This is my mom’s backyard after my brother and I did some major cleaning. I’ll give the credit to Ryan, though… he worked for 2 days before I even began helping on the third and final (for me) day. I used a chainsaw for the first time and we chopped up 2 of the roughly 7 or so giant trees in the yard and on the house. The most impressive thing (to me) about this shot is that you can actually see grass. That’s a lot of raking, friends.

In other news, my last day as a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives was Friday, September 30. So I’m looking for work, preferably as a photographer (or related) or even as a web designer. It’s not my first choice, but I have experience and need a paycheck. And it’s a heck of a lot better than working at Old Navy. I hope to have photos from my work at the House online before long, but it’ll take some time. I believe I’ll be able to post them through an open-records request. Obviously I wouldn’t be able to reproduce or sell them. Sorry for the long text.

Shot while walking on a bridge over the Chicago River.

I saw the light.

A couple waiting for the train down the street from the Aquarium.

This is the first image I’m posting from our recent trip (Nov. 11-15, 2004) to Chicago. This is Stacy’s friend Ruthann reading while we waited for the train underground. I’ve posted the original scan of this so you can see what I did.