From the Sorrow of my Heart

I drink in Pain in Every Delight

Mourning for the Truth

100th Monkey Studios

Next month I will have a piece in 100th Monkey Studios juried show. The reception is Septmber 4 4-6 pm. Anyone that's local should come check it out and support your local artist!
110 SE 16th Ave
Portland, Oregon
97214

Crossing the blues

Refusal of Reentry and Exit into Deep Space (suicide)


I have two photographs at Satellite Gallery. It's a regional juried show.
The opening reception is Friday August 21st from 6-9pm. If your in La Grand, OR check out the gallery and surrounding galleries in the art walk.

Nothing but Silence

Side Note;
For all those who know or don't I have a piece of art being displayed in ACCI Gallery down in Berkeley, CA.
I also will have two pieces of artwork displayed in Satellite Gallery in La Grande, OR for the month of August.

Grand Guignol

You can see me in action doing a photo shot. It's a Sweet advertisement for Dylan Hillerman's Grand Guignol at;
The Back Door Theater
4319 SE Hawthorne
From June 26- Aug 1

Turmoil

This is a piece from a series title "Emotional Intelligence"

A Murderous Love

Skating

GRADUATION

HAPPY GRADUATION D & KIM!
This is just another family snap shot, but boy do they look so cute!

Murder by Death

Words to Live by:
Live is what you make it.

Reception

Check out Perceptions Magazine. I have two pieces of artwork in it and I will post the pieces later on.

You look at me like I'm not there

Sadly Weeping Asleep and Dreaming

WORDS TO LIVE BY:
Running gets you somewhere fast but doesn't seem to help if you don't know where your going.

Running Screaming into the Beyond (Ships and Clouds)

"I've been known to not know where I'm going"

In the Ruins of Decay we find Ourselves

Beneath the Ground

Beneath the ground
All things stay.
I bury my feeling
You bury your face.
Then one day
I awake to find
It’s all gone
That life I used to live
Only to see that nothing else exist
It’s just beneath the ground now

WORDS TO LIVE BY:
TRY UNTIL YOU DIE...

Under the Bridge

WORDS TO LOVE BY:
"It's in me Nature."

Peoples Choice Award

I went to pick up my piece over at Sixth Street and when I went in they informed me that I had won the peoples choice award.
No money just recognition, which is the best thing of all.
Cheers

Dual Reality page 1

I worked on this story/comic for a bit but no one has really read it. I did everything, write, photos and layout. The further the story progressed the better the layout. So if anyone interested in reading this let me know I can put up a big image or so forth. I also want to thank all of my models that I have used for my characters;

Jay

DD

Darren

Chris

Tyler

Waiting by the Door

Crash Landing

Crosswalk

Losing the Mind Through Love

WORDS TO LIVE BY:

Love others and they will love you.

Miles

One Ghost

The Sad Truth

 Photography jobs are taken less seriously and the pay reflects. As a photographer I am often asked from people that I hardly know if I will do some photos for them for free, or for trade. 

Trade how can you determine what it's worth to you if you don't need it. You need my service but I don't need yours, sorry. This is the joys of being a photographer. Always always always being hit up for free work. 

If it's not free then it's demeaning the amount they want to pay you. They want gold for the price of shit. Maybe I'm being to harsh. The sad truth of it all is that I can find a job (not a career but a p.o.s. job) that will pay more and requires less.

 You maybe thinking that this is because of the recession. No, this has being going on for years now, and not just where I currently live. There is no standard for this profession. I've seen wedding photographers from as cheap as $500 to as cheap as $1200. Not only is there no standard for price but there is no standard for quality.

I used to work at a photo lab, and an older gentleman came in getting some digital prints. He told me that he did product photography. He showed me the photos of the products he was shooting and I was shocked. They were shit on a stick. I couldn't believe what I saw. He told me that he just picked up the camera and recently became a photographer. He was using a point and shoot camera, and said that he can get fantastic images from this camera then any proffesional camera. (Fine if you have an eye you can make the best out of any camera, but the quality of the image and pixels it shoots does not compare.)

This is just an example of the fall of quality in photography. The industry is accepting less quality. 

I could be being too harsh, you tell me.

Maybe I'm wrong, but just maybe, it could be a scary, I'm right.

Falling out of Reality

This piece has been published in Farmhouse magazine.

Birds

As stated here is one photographs that is on display. This one is at the sixth street gallery.

If anyone would like to purchase this piece or an other piece contact me through email on my profile, or leave some comments. Cheers!

Leftover Identify

Looking through Milky Dreams

Bikers

One Ghost Industry

Temple parts 2

The Nature to Pursue Existence

Screaming Mind

Trouble Brewing

Fourth Annual National Photography Show

The reception is March 6th from 5-9pm at the Sixth Street Gallery

105 W Sixth Street Vancouver, WA 98660

If you can't make it to the reception the show will be hanging for the entire month of March, and gallery is open from Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm.

For all of you that are out of town I will be posting the image by the end of March so you can check out the work.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

I''M NEVER GONNA' GIVE YOU UP. I'M NEVER GONNA' QUIT!

-name that song....

3 Colors of One

Show Information

I will have two pieces displayed at two different galleries the month of March. 

"Portrait of One" will be displayed for first Thursday at the Ultrecht Gallery, downtown Portland.

1122 NW Everett St.

"Birds" will be displayed at the Sixth Street Gallery downtown Vancouver, WA

105 West Sixth Street, Vancouver, WA 98660

If you are around this area you should check out my art work at either of these venues. 

Reminder! In June I will have a photograph published in a magazine. More details to come.

Temple parts

Fire Hydrant 83

La strada che stabilisce in anticipo

Random buildings

Titles

Incipient Door 

I see titles as a way to help the audience make a leap into the experience of the piece. Unfortunately I see more and more art pieces being title "Untitled 2008" or "Untitled 356", while their statement is so strong their title lacks and I leave feeling that the work is all bullshit.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Jump, it's worth the risk.

From the Inside out (they're watching)

Painting with Light

Painting with light can be very hard if you have a preset outcome in your head. Or it can be fun, this is the route I choose. This is just a simple fun project, with a long exposure. I took the fire and painted with it. Already now we've been subject to these images in commercials, but none the less it's still fun. As photographers we are completely different. We see and understand things differently, we are artist of the light. Wether it be strobes, flashes, car light, or form the stars. We use light as our brush and color (or lack of). These images have not been photoshoped except to place my name in them, other than that they are in original form. This is natural photography. As an artist we use photoshop to brighten our palette, but it is not a crutch and we don't need it.

WORDS TO LIVE BY;

Use the smoke screen. They'll never know.

Bicycle Zen

Train Yard

A Lighting Storm in Las Vegas

In 2008 there was beautiful weather that I really loved, a lighting storm.  I was out without my camera, and I was arriving home soon. When I came home I quickly grabbed my camera and went out and waited for lighting. I took several shot, but this was the one that actually captured a nice lighting bolt. I love weather, and the beauty that it causes in nature. Capturing light is not always as easy as it seems.

Words to Live By;

Paint, draw, photograph, dance, sing, or write. Do what moves you and your heart will sing.