Being a tourist...

Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist, I went down to the market earlier today. I just hung around the fish throwers for a few minutes and was amazed at how many people come see them even when its cold outside.

Came back and started editing some audio I have been meaning to edit. Nothing special just kind of a audio journal entry.

Work Station: Carpet...random sock!

Ice Skates

Kyle Ostbye, morning maintenance supervisor at the Highlands Ice Arena in Shoreline, sharpens a pair of skates Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. The ice arena opened its doors in 1962.

Shot this last Saturday for the Enterprise up in Lynnwood.

Protests and Flash work...

Friday was a busy day. Not only was I sent out to Edmonds Woodway High School to cover an assignment, but Students from over 30 high schools and 10 universities walked out of classes in protest of the Iraq war and the practice of having military recruiters at high schools. They gathered at West lake Center and proceeded to march through the streets of Seattle.

After I shot the protest I headed out to Edmonds for the Enterprise. They had me there to cover H.A.V.E or Hunger Awareness Vigil Experience. The "dinner" consisted of splitting the group of students and residents of Edmonds that attended into three sections, High-income, Middle-income and Low-income. High-income dinner guests had a dinner with included three courses served by a waitstaff. Middle-income dinner guests sat at long tables and ate buffet style.
Low-income guests sat around blankets and only ate rice.


Here is the flash work mentioned in the title.

Bored and Cold...

Today has been a pretty long day. I got a portfolio critique from a photographer at the Albuquerque Journal today. My portfolio needed the once over, it had been a while since my last kick in the ass. The critique has already started to help me out. I also got a call to shoot a gig in Edmonds tomorrow afternoon. It feels good to get an assignment sheet again, lets all hope this trend continues.

Spent the afternoon working on cover letters, captions and walking around Capital Hill. I needed to get out of my apartment to get any work done. When I got back I was cold and eventually got bored so I took a self portrait...which you see below. HA!

Jelly...

Spent a few hours at the Seattle Aquarium today.

Bike Polo...

Started shooting what I hope will turn into a project. Bike Polo it is a pretty crazy sport to watch and the people that play are a very cool crowd. They invited me back and to kind of tournament this weekend, I hope I can make it.

Coffee Break...

Walked around downtown a bit today went in to starbucks with my girlfriend. We sat and talked for a whlie, it was nice.

Old photo, new post...

I have been looking into getting back to Guatemala in the next year or possibly going to Mexico city for a photo workshop I heard about yesterday. I shot this photo last summer in Chichicastenango's market. I really miss Guatemala and the trips through the country.

The Move...

Well I just landed in Seattle, now I'm looking for an apartment and some photo work. Shot these over the past three days as I drove up from El Paso. The drive was long, but I had fun and it gave me a chance to think about many things.
I am very excited to be here and looking forward to life in the north west.

A Portrait...

This is my Dad

Leaving Soon...

I'll be heading to Seattle for good in four days. I am both happy and sad. I feel kind of guilty about leaving my parents here with out me, but I know they will be ok when I'm gone.

So with that said I have been spending as much time as I can with them. Tonight my mom was cleaning Pinto beans so I shot that and chatted with her. she explained how important cleaning beans was when she was a kid. It was like family time for her and her mother.

Tats and Maps

I hung out with some friends tonight shot these. I am currently getting very anxious about my move to Seattle. I want to leave now! But I guess the 17th will have to do.

Alicia's new TattooAfter much coffee Carlos explained his grad school selection processes by drawing a map of the U.S.

Storm over I- 10

On my way back from Las Cruces tonight, I stopped to snap a few frames of a storm that hit the area.

A Mother's Love

No other love is as pure as that of a mother's for her child.

Vows...

Last night I shot a renewal of vows ceremony, I am editing through about 1,000 frames. I had a good time shooting last night. I am looking forward to shooting more weddings this summer. I shot this toward the end of the night of an unnamed couple who I couldn't find later to get their names.

Ride Along

I took a ride along with the photographer for El Paso Inc., they wanted to try me out see if they liked my work. I really want to shoot for them, I miss having photo gigs consistently. I also went and shot an assignment for Ep restaurant in the mall. As I left the mall I was stopped by mall security and asked why I was taking photos in the mall. I guess their was some miss communication between the restaurant and the rest of the mall. Anyway shot this last night at a gallery reception for the artist Tom Lea. This is trumpeter Jesus Rodriguez, him and a bass player entertained guest at this opening at the Adair Margo Gallery Thursday night.

Downtown...

Two afternoons ago I headed to downtown El Paso to do a little street shooting. I had forgotten how much fun walking around downtown with a camera could be. It is almost a therapy, to get out and just shoot.

Getting a grip...

It has been a long week, after graduating on Saturday I started looking for work. Tomorrow I have an interview with El Paso Magazine, if everything goes well I will be a contributing photographer to the magazine.

The End is NEAR...

So the season of graduation is starting up, along with my graduation coming up next week there are many high schools getting ready to unleash their kids upon the world. I shot a portrait of one of these kids, She is my best friends sister. After I shot a few of her I figured I would take a few of my "brother from another mother." I am toying with the idea of covering my own graduation, from the seat and shoes of a grad.

Music soothes the savage beast...namely me.

I am not sure if other Universities have procrastination days or weeks, but NMSU does. It's a time when you are supposed to blow off finals/term papers and just relax. I never seem to really enjoy this excuse to blow off school. This year being my last year in college and being giving an assignment to shoot it, I took the time to sit back and listen to the band that our Student Union's program council invited to play.Their name is PBM or Poor Boy Music, they had this ska type feel to them. They are a pretty good band and listening to them for about an hour really did help my stress level,anyway this is Tom Torrento he is the trumpeter and back up vocals for the band.
After shooting this assignment I drove back to El Paso, Tx which is my new base of operations for the next few months. I moved out of my apartment in Las Cruces this past weekend, I am pretty excited about this little move if all goes right it will lead to some good shooting gigs. Then in August with what money I have I make a big move to Seattle to regain something that has been missing for about a year.

T - minus 5,4,3...

Met up with the News Editor of the Bulletin at about 4:15 am Saturday. We drove out to Hatch, climbed aboard buses and were taken to the viewing area of Spaceport America. A rocket was being launched that morning with the remains of Star Trek star James Doohan and Apollo 7 astronaut Gordon Cooper, along with a few other remains. The rocket launched and reached its pre-orbital destination before falling back to earth and landing at White Sands Missile Range. It was one of the more interesting assignments I have had lately.

Take Back the Night...

Tuesday the wellness, alcohol,violence and education program or WAVE hosted the third annual "Take back the Night" rally here at New Mexico State University . "Take back the Night" was started in the 1970's in England when women wanted to protest against the fear that women felt walking in the streets at night. They had a pretty good turn out for the rally . It is always good to see communities come together to bring awareness to problems that concern everyone.

In this first photo, Perla Subi marches down University Avenue during the rally while other demonstrators chanted, "No sex without consent."

The Greeks are coming...

This saturday the NMSU greek community held their annual Greek Olympics, just a few photos from that.