Senior photos aren’t my specialty, I’ll admit it. But Mikayla was fun to work
with and we had surreal lighting and her family is great (last frame).
This is the third time I’ve worked with them. I documented Mikayla’s
brothers wedding (courtney+josh) as well as Courtney’s brother
and his lady (erin&justin).

And yes, this is at one of Seattle photographers favorite spots +.
The third frame is straight out of the camera.
All of these photos were taken after sunset, mostly at ISO 1600.

I have always been fascinated by the time of day when
artificial and natural light blend together.

I love the look of organic networks.

Nature is so wonderful.

There is so much to discover!

I’m quite into minimalism.

It reminds me of math.

Wires against a bare sky remind me of pen and pencil on paper. Especially with another small object to throw you mind. It’s like an optical illusion.

Enjoy.

_Also check out Polaroid photographer Grant Hamilton – he is a huge inspiration to me – the top photos are for him._

This morning I wandered the streets of Seattle with No Theft (Tommy Panigot), toting our cameras over our shoulders. We had hoped for nice contrasty sunshine, but got overcast instead. Who am I kidding, it’s Seattle! It was very pleasant, none the less.

It was a breath of fresh air to get out and take pictures… just for the fun of it. I pushed myself to try something different today. To capture things with deep depths of field – or without blurry backgrounds. It was refreshing. Look at some of the shots from the morning over on No Theft’s blog as well.

If you follow my work and have your own blog, I’d love if you shared a link to it.

Also, I decided to make my photo size larger on this blog. Let me know what you think.

This morning as I was working on my soon-to-be-released website (promotional plug: benblood.com, next week, stay tuned), the power went out and the internets went down. I had to stay productive, so I went on a photo journey around Seattle.

One of these photos is not like the other. Can you tell which one it is, and why? The winner gets a prize. A virtual high-five!

A couple of weeks ago I got a new guitar amp, so I’ve been playing guitar almost everyday because I’m so excited about it. I was in the living room playing guitar yesterday afternoon when I heard a knock on the front door. There’s this guy at the door holding a vinyl album and it’s dust jacket in his hands.

“Hey man, I hear you playing guitar often from my house across the street and wanted to drop off this vinyl I just pressed – do you have a record player?” he asks as he hands me this pristine, white, vinyl record with custom screen printing on it.

I was blown away. . . by the white vinyl (and by the fact that this guy can hear my guitar across the street and one house down). I’m not quite sure the point of this blog, but I thought I should share this. I’m glad he stopped by. I’m glad people can still talk to their neighbors. At this point I will apologize to any neighbors that may not like to hear my guitar, across the street … or next door. However, I think the white vinyl is pretty snazzy!

The music is somewhat experimental. You can hear some of it at dulcettrecords.com

In other news, I’m buying a Zorki 4.