i shall imagine life

I was in Chicago, IL and Bloomington, IN this week. I'll post a few shots from Chicago soon. First, a few shots from an impromptu photoshoot in Indiana. I was in Bloomington visiting my friend Kyle.

When I arrived at his house, one of the first things I noticed was a metallic lamp with a red bulb hanging from the ceiling above a chair. I filed it away in my mind as a possible photograph location.

After a great Turkish dinner at a quaint restaurant called Anatolia, we went back to the house and listened to a few LPs from his awesome record collection.

Then, feeling nostalgic, we decided to go out in his back yard and catch some fireflies...ah, the memories...

(Note: fireflies are hard to shoot, especially without a tripod! you can see them at the top left and bottom right of the inside of the jar. Click on the photo for a larger view.)


Anyways, back inside, I noticed the light fixture again and asked Kyle if he'd be willing to sit in for a photoshoot. He graciously agreed, and here are the results:







BTW...Kyle is really not a creepy guy, he's just really good at appearing that way in photos!

Apartment Shoot

These are from an apartment shoot I did the other day:

These first three are HDRs created in Photomatix using three exposures:






These next two are both 4 image stitches stitched in Photoshop with photomerge. This was my first shoot using strobist techniques to light up interiors:

Paint Me Irrational - Category Five Photo Shoot

Here's a video from a recent photo shoot I did with Paint Me Irrational:

The Short Version:


The Long Version:

And the results:

New Music! A Lowland EP

My new EP, "A Lowland EP" is now available for download! You can download it from the player below.



The EP features 7 songs that I have written over the past 7 years.

The first track, "I Hate Goodbyes", is actually a song I wrote while a part of my former band, The Dropowtts. The lyrics were written by Phil Seidel.

The songs are mostly piano compositions, and a few have some keys, guitar, and drums added in.

The last song, "This Day Shall Bring", was intentionally recorded very Lo-Fi. I recorded it entirely with the built in microphone on my Macbook Pro and mixed it in Garage Band. The percussion is literally pots and pans (whatever I could find in the kitchen that made noise...).

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this EP. Look for a full record before too long (hopefully!).

I'd love to hear what you think!

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Gainesville Mystery Site

I've been taking a web design class this semester, and it's been a lot of fun. I have learned a ton (i.e. be looking out for a total site re-design within the next 6 months).

Here's a site I designed for class. We had to create a website featuring "The Gainesville Mystery Spot - The most unique attraction in North Florida." It could be anything we wanted, so I decided to do something conceptual.

I put together a shoot that ended up taking me two days to complete.

Here's the site, I may or may not post more info on it later (if I feel like it, hehe):

The Gainesville Mystery Site

Finally a photo!

I haven't been shooting as much as I'd like to lately because of school, but I finally was able to take some photos this week. Actually, as it turns out, these photos were actually for school.

I'm taking a web design class right now and we had to design a site for a fictional movie theater at SFCC. Here's the link to my design - it's not great, I didn't spend as much time on it as I'd have liked to. Oh well, here it is - http://theartwebreathe.net/sfcc/sfcc_theater