When I first heard about the Fuji Instax through Sean Flanigan, I knew I had to find one to take pictures of my good friends Adam and Diana during their wedding weekend. I walked in to their rehearsal with only this white toy-looking camera pretending it was the only camera I brought that weekend. hahahahaha.

This camera is great. Each print costs $1 and you can pick up the camera for about $65. It’s Ben Blood recommended =)

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I love this lens!

It took a long time, but I developed some film from my Russian Zorki 4 camera. There were some light leaks in the rolls of film I had. They happened to appear on the right photos too.

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So I decided to make my own. I’ve been doing this stuff since I was in high school. I’d make my own custom Christmas and birthday cards on my PC using PrintMaker Pro or something like that.

As long as I can remember, my aunt has had these asian print pillows on her sofa. Today I scanned one of the pillows and am going to use it to make my own thank you cards.

Also, I’ve been adding some album artwork to the right sidebar of my favorite music I’ve been listening to. One of my favorites I just found today is an musician called Thao, his her second album called We Brave Bee Stings And All. It is brilliant. Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B3 organ, Marxaphone, melodica, trumpets are part of the toolbox of instruments used.

I had not planned on writing any of that as I opened up Safari to post this blog. It just came out. Originally I had planned on writing something like this.

Last week I shot the disc jockeys at Seattle’s Spirit 105.3 and 610AM radio stations. Exciting! At least for me :) I think the DJ’s were excited for new photos as well.

Matt made my day during this shoot. Seeing his reaction after viewing his picture on my camera’s 2.5″ screen, I realized how rewarding it is to see a clients emotion when first viewing their images. “The photos are awesome!” in an email just doesn’t have the same effect. So thanks Matt!

Here are a couple shots from the day. All the DJs had great personalities and were super easy to work with. In order of appearance, Tom, Matt, Martha, Sam, Sarah, Larry.

What a difference! I declare this unacceptable! (color profile nazi’s: I do convert my images to sRGB, so that’s not the problem here). Apparently, I’m not the only one that noticed this either.

After doing some research, I found this article. To break it down, Firefox doesn’t support color profiles, unlike Safari. The next version of Firefox (3) is said to have full support of ICC color profiles. Until then, I’m sticking with Safari.

I thought you other photographers out there might find this useful – and to you viewers who have a sharp eye :)

*Note that I over-saturated the top photo after first noticing this anomaly, that is why it looks like Matthew has a gross sunburn.

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My Zorki4 arrived this morning!

Below you will find two photographs. The top one I photographed just under a year ago out at an abandoned bank / hotel / building in Waitsburg, WA, right about here. The second photograph is not mine (I’d credit it if I remembered whose it is), I saw it once in a photo community about four years ago when I was first learning about my excitement in photography.

Don’t the images look similar?!? I only saw the second image once, and three years later, I think that image was still in my mind when I took the top photograph.

Back to the photographer eye business. By following the work of artists that are inspirational, any photographer, graphic designer, painter, musician, writer, . . . will find themselves improving in their field (I hope you understood me saying that people shouldn’t limit themselves only to inspirational artists in their own field. That was intentional.).

So am I saying that if I listen to more music and read more books and look at many paintings, my photography will improve? Yes.

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

My brother Tommy over at panigot.blogspot.com is an avid blogger. Not only is he the lead singer of a band, he’s also lead designer for a hip startup organization called Le Grand Cru. Word is that they will be producing a line of glorious designed items.

Tommy asked / tagged me to share some of my influence and trends in my design work. (sorry, no photos this time) Here it is:

Overall I tend to lean to the clean and minimal style. Not just with design, but photography, clothing, my bedroom walls, just about everything.

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Leaving breathing room for an object actually creates a focus and draws attention more than a busy design – this is my rational.

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P.S. (who writes PS on their blog?) Some of you may have heard that I was kidnapped my a rock band earlier this month. Stay tuned for photos from this recent adventure of the Pacific Northwest.

Whenever I talked with my mom on the phone, several times throughout our conversations she would ask me if we were going to see the Grand Canyon (currently we are in California and she’s been continually encouraging us to stop and see the Giant Sequoia trees).

Tuesday, we were on our way from Santa Fe to Riverside and stopped in Flagstaff to play a café show at Macys café. The Grand Canyon was only 90 minutes north. When would we get a chance to see this wonder again? So Wednesday morning we headed north.

As we approached the south rim of the canyon, Tric and I kept our eyes shut while Bruce and Tommy led us to the very edge of the canyon. When we arrived at the edge, we opened our eyes. I could not believe the size and depth. The clouds were perfect and the colors vivid. It was a grand experience :) Thanks mom.