Feb 17
Borrowing liberally from Alex Garza's (
onibla.com) twitter (
@alexgarza) posts, the night can be summarized as follows:
- Houston, we have an awesome community of photogs! Thx U all 4 coming 2nite 2 our @ meetup. Also BIG thx 2 @ & @
- Speech by JR Cohen about social media and paying it forward.
- Community isn't about yourself.
- I'm still buzzing off of how awesome last night's @ Houston meetup went. @ reminded all of us it's not bout us.
And I am the brave (stupid) soul who photographed photographers. I was told that we'll have critiques of our work soon, was that a hint to put my camera away?
Sorry I'll miss the March meet - looking forward to April's -
check out the Houston SmugMug Meetup.
Feb 7
Grant and I made a new friend -
a wedding photographer in Orange County, Brian Khang. He's much more fond of Orange County, CA than Spring, TX (and we don't blame him); however, he very much wanted to take photographs of horses in fields. This "dream" of his came up in conversation not more than a week after Grant and I decided to lay off the massive amounts of photographs we take of the ranch ... we didn't want to bore the few people who view our photo stream. Turns out, our lifestyle isn't that boring. You just have to be from somewhere else to find it novel.
Such is life, I guess! Sometimes photographers stop looking at places very close to home ... we just stopped valuing places close to home as fascinating places. I suppose if a photographer can make a careful interesting study of the "mundane", the new and the interesting will be that much more natural to record.
So, Brian gets some help from Scout as he photographs horses. And we test Brian's mettle by running through a messy cow field. We also made a quick trip into town and hit the diner and the general store. Brain said, "I feel like I've had culture." Hmmm. Super cute! And we drove through Cat Spring, TX on the way back to Houston. It's cuter than old town Spring IMO. And maybe Brian's.
We're looking forward to the next time we get to spend some time with Brian. Maybe it will be when Grant and I are in Orange County, experiencing Brian's version of "everyday" ... cameras in hand.
Jan 25
Hmmm ... second attempt at this post, too many photographs?
We were out in Austin County this weekend. It was wonderful. When I photographed around the Newman's Bakery in Bellville and a patron asked me in that beautiful German-influenced drawl, "You take pictures to remember where you've been?" It's true! That's why I'm lugging around my camera, to remember where I've been.
And mom and I love our buckskins. Newsflash.
The sky was amazing, a few photographs don't do God justice on the weekend light show.
Jan 25
We were out in Austin County this weekend. It was wonderful. When I photographed around the Newman's Bakery in Bellville and a patron asked me in that beautiful German-influenced drawl, "You take pictures to remember where you've been?" It's true! That's why I'm lugging around my camera, to remember where I've been.
And mom and I love our buckskins. Newsflash.
The sky was amazing, a few photographs don't do God justice on the weekend light show.
Jan 24
At the ranch again this weekend.
Some new friends of ours came out and rode, bringing two of Will's horses. Glad their plans fell through wherever they were supposed to go, Grant and I enjoyed the company!
I'd talk about how great the weather was, but that's boring.
I remember being in college and thinking how cute, old, and fat married people were (you know, the Aggies that had "recently" graduated) ... especially if our class year was in a different decade. Sigh ... we've arrived!
Jan 18
Well, it's about time we get more Pack meetings together. Our last one, low light shooting with minimal flash, was pretty interesting.
We're always open to new ideas and new faces at our Pack meetings. The only rule is that all attendees contribute. We haven't yet run across a person who was a walking idea black hole!
Here's a link to the blog we've started to centralize our planning and our recapping. The Pack - Houston Photographers.If you're a Houston area creative, you're welcome to add yourself and your resources (aka "get involved")!
So here's the studio|detro photos from the last meeting.
Jan 13
How cute is my working girl sister? We went out to eat and I photoed her as the sun set (and after the sun went down). She likes cell phones.
Jan 3
Over New Years weekend, we had one day of super thick fog. Many of the photographs in the fog were taken mid-day - it was that thick! Grant snagged a neat night-time photo of the little house across the lake and we have (always) hundreds of images of Hut.
We're looking forward to what 2010 has in store. Can't wait to photograph it!
Dec 29
I met up with some friends of mine for lunch while they were back in town from school. And we laughed at the memories of the old Redcloud videos we made back in the day. Very excellent cinematography and cutting edge graphics with a wicked plot. And the videos reminded us of the photos that we made one evening. The images are in the zipped file (instead of a gallery display for some reason...). I'll have to figure it out and fix my posting problem!
Check out the images in question on Facebook by clicking here.
