4X5 black and whites

For a while now I've been interested in country stores. They're quickly dying in this country. I started this past summer with my Nikon but I decided to shoot some in black and white for my large format course. I only have one of them scanned so far. I'll get the rest in a about a month when I get some time. I took this with my Crown Graphic on Kodak tMax 100 and a #25 red filter.

Poster design

Well, I guess I'll post some of my latest work. This was a poster project for a design course. The information is real, the design was up to me. I really love doing this stuff. This was done specifically for print output so I'm afraid the jpg doesn't really cut it. It looks beautiful on glossy paper.

Blasphemy!

I'm taking a course in typeface design and the assignment was to take something that was done in a particular style or school and reinterpret it in a different style. So, like an idiot, I chose to redesign The Beatles White Album. It seemed like a good idea at the time, of course voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980 seemed like a good idea too, but that's a different story. It turns out that the Beatles were planning on naming the album A Doll's House after the Ibsen play but shortly before its release another group released an album titled Song's From The Doll's House and it was determined that the similarities were too great so the Beatles scrapped the title altogether. This sent the design for the jacket cover in to a tailspin and without a title or concept (the album is just a collection of songs) it was decided to release the album without a jacket design - essentially blank. The white album design is quintessentially "modern" in the Swiss style and my challenge was to redesign it in a post-modern style, saddled with all the same limitations i.e., no title, concept or direction. I chose to create individual logos for all thirty songs and lay them out on the jacket as they would look when the jacket was unfolded (it's a double album).

Point of View

What's your point of view?

Hey, long time, no see...

It's been a while since my last post so I thought I'd put something up. I took these for Digital Imaging with Hickman. Photographers rarely photograph themselves. We always seem to be looking away at something outside ourselves. These images represent three of my favorite things: my Harley, my art, and my dog. If I could get paid to just ride my bike around the country with my dog and take pictures at bike rallies, I'd be a happy man.