Product and Food too

Taking a break from the art photography I've been posting lately as well as taking a break from preparations for my new web site now under development, I thought I would leak a few product shots out unto the great blogosphere and see what happens! A couple of these images are from the most interesting product shoot I've done. They were for a company that sells products for plastic surgery. Needless to say, they had many interesting products that I never dreamed existed let alone that I'd be shooting one day. Anyways, the new web site is coming along and should be up shortly. I'm sure I will let you know as soon as it's done.

Bringing the Outside In Pt. 2- The Dark Side

In these shots I return more to recent themes. Same day, same objects, just changed the light. In the earlier shots the only light I used came from the living room windows which created a soft even lighting allowing the objects to stand on their own in a sort of quiet meditation. For the images in Pt.2 I used artificial lighting from an off camera flash. Here the lighting becomes a much more obvious, and some might consider obtrusive, element in the story telling and meaning of the photographs. There is more of a tortured struggle, or play, between the forms created in the lights and shadows. I don't think one is necessarily better than the other, just two different stories being told.

Bringing the Outside In

Calming things down a bit from my recent experiments. The idea behind this abstraction is to quietly capture natural objects I find interesting, and have character, outside of their usual context of the outdoors. These are all things I find as I am, again, walking the walk from where I park my car to my apartment. All and all I think it is a study and documentation of where and how I currently live. Goleta, CA July/August 2010. More of the series can be found here.

"I see figures, strange figures, weird figures, Steel 186, Anaconda 74, American Cane 138..."

Shot on a recent trip through Joshua Tree. These, indeed, are strange trees. Nightmarish and other worldly. The "flipper babies" of the tree world. I still have trouble sleeping. Other shots from Joshua Tree can be seen here. BTW if anyone knows what the title of this entry is quoting I am most impressed! It is from one of my all time favorite movies.