35mm exploration

First of all, sorry for the long hiatus, life has been busy to say the least. Anyway:

If I haven't said it before, I love shooting with good old film. I've been using my dad's old Nikon FM and its manual controls get you so connected to what you're shooting. If you aren't focusing on the task at hand, nothing good is coming out of the camera.

A large majority of these shots are from Berkeley and Oakland around Christmas time. I really need to get something that does a better job of converting these to digital. Scanning prints on a flatbed is far too lossy. Please comment, critique, share, and as always, enjoy!





















































Thanks for reading!

one year of photography: a best of

Wow, its been almost a year since I got my camera last January. What an amazing ride this has been, taking hold of a new interest and diving fully into it. I've upgraded lenses, styles, locations and time schedules. I love the variety of subjects I've been able to shoot, from San Marcos sports, to Joe surfing, to awe-inspiring nature that I will never be able to fully capture.

Thank you so much to anyone who has helped me out, whether you've posed, helped at a shoot, made a suggestion, or just viewed my blog. In 12 months, I've gone from 87 views last January to 626 in October with nearly 4,000 total views. Oh and I took 19,992 pictures. That I haven't deleted. I'm excited to see what 2012 will bring.

Here are my personal favorite pictures from the last year. Please enjoy! I would love to hear what people like the most.



My first day shooting:


And my camera's first time on a hike:






A lot of biking occurred:




Sometimes it was cold:


or hot:




The Balladiers rocked Santa Barbara:








A lot of people ran fast and jumped far:








I experimented with some new ideas and went all over town:
















I went to Thailand:
















And I took my favorite portrait there:


I backpacked across the Sierra Nevada Mountains and camped on top of Mt. Whitney:












There were fun things to document around town:






And I found film!


I went to Santa Cruz Island before school started back up:




And Joe surfed a lot:








People just kept running:








And I started documenting other San Marcos things:


And of course took pictures of sunsets:



Thank you , thank you, thank you for viewing my photoblog now or ever.