Greg on Greg

Well, this is a little private, but I thought it was a nice photo and wanted to share it. This is what I do with myself when I'm alone.

Another Christie

Skateboard riding

Went out with my housemates and friends yesterday to this very cool skate spot in Yellowwood State Forest. It's a drainage spot that has awesome banks for skating. We got kicked out by DNR about a half hour into it, so I wasn't able to get some awesome shots I would have otherwise there, but we went to a couple spots in town and got some sweet shots. Here's a few, and there's more (about 20) on my flickr page.

I'm pretty excited about my rate of photo taking this week. Got some great stuff almost every day of the week. I have a couple more shoots planned for the near future, as well. I'm also going to start promoting myself for Senior Portraits, so if anyone knows some good advertising avenues or knows of anyone who needs photos, let me know!

Bloomington Bike Project

We had a shop night last night at the project to work on shop bikes to sell to the college students moving back to town. Got a few fixed up and ready to sell and ate some pizza. I also took the opportunity to take some sweet pics. There's more on my flickr if you're interested in seeing them. Here's a few, though.

Shelbyville

This is one of our house's cats. Her name is Shelbyville.

Salvation

Another one from the other night. While we were taking this a guy came out from the apartment house next door and asked me not to set off strobes outside his window at 1 in the morning. Sorry dude. If you see this and want a print of it, let me know.

I just got a new Lumiquest Softbox III in the mail. Looking forward to playing with it.

Half Priced Donuts

Christie Cooper Ceramics

Christie and I have been working on a project to make a new website for her ceramic work. We photographed her work together and made the website with the help of our friend Jared (http://wasitabatisaw.com). Last week we did the photos of her work and last night we took some portraits of her in her studio. You can see the site we made and more of the photos here: www.CooperCeramics.com.

There

Tonight I took this photo. It is a self-portrait and a long exposure on the road. Luckily, nothing got smashed by a car, though I had to scramble a few times to get myself, my camera, my bicycle, and my flashes out of the road for passing cars just in the nick of time.

I think the photo's much better when viewed large.

Always appreciate comments...

Finishing up the trip pictures

Here's what I got left. Christie and I had a good time in the Umpqua National Forest. We backpacked about 15 miles over 4 days. We ended up hitching about 10 miles because Christie's back was having trouble with the pack. We landed at the Umpqua Hot Springs, which are pretty awesome. I didn't really get a photo to do it justice.

Here's some photos of that excursion and the rest of the photos from our Oregon trip.

Trail treasures

I have some new ideas I'm excited about and have some other work that needs finishing touches to post soon.

Oh, and by the way, my photo was on the front cover of The Ryder magazine this month!