Nihao!

So,here I am in China. Its really late right now, and Im really tired, so Im going to make this fairly short. I have no idea how I got here. Well, thats a lie. I know how I got here, I just dont know how it all actualy happened, or why I agreed to it. Let me begin by stating that China is a very cool place. It was a 13 hour flight to Beijing from LAX,and then we had a 3 hour lay over, followed by a 2 hour flight to Cheng Du. Its different. I saw a coke can that was advertising WoW. Crossing the street is seriously dangerous. The buildings are not western. And then there is the language barrier. Its hard to do anything, even the simplest of tasks (like getting a locker), when you cant verbally communicate with people. Ive decided that within the next 36 days, Im learning some Chinese. I think the biggest problem in the next few weeks is going to be ordering food. I saw a couple temples today,and I was very impressed. I also went to a show, and was also very impressed. They have a mask changing technique that blows my mind. Maybe Ill touch on that some more later. But today was mostly traveling into the future. It is almost 11pm on Saturday night, while in LA it is almost 6 am on saturday. Ill wake up in a few hours and be a day into the future. With that said, here is one from China. Enjoy.

Finals

The cover for my Final Submission (its a CD):



and here is teh full image with no crop:

Double Whamie!

A special photo for a special friend. Enjoy.

Mas

Enjoy.

It was a cold cold night

But it was pretty in the day. Enjoy.

Im coming up

Here is another for ya!

Busy as a... lizard?

Well, Ive been a combination of busy and lazy, but youll be getting more soon (or at least thats the plan).

At long last

I decided to try a slide show to display my images from London. Its not as high quality as I like, but this company made it really easy. If you do want to see any of them in a size more like the usual, let me know which one. Well, here goes:


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I swear, london is coming soon. Just be patient with me. Please...

Just to Hold You

Returned

Im back. I just woke up from sleeping 12 hours straight, which is very uncommon for me. Yesterday, I was up for 26 hours straight, which dont seem like much, but the sun was un for 19 hours of that time, which can be very exhausting (ina ddition to flying and all that jazz). Traveling really dos take it out of you. But now, Im back. You wont see any photos from this trip untill I have finished editing them all. I may post a couple from my other trip, but well see how busy I am. Well, off to work.

From London

Consider this a postcard if I dontget thechance to mail the ones I bought.

London @ Night

Well, its 152 in the morning here and Im bored. Saw a few very awesome things today, which you just have to be there to feel their effect. Met a couple cool people today, and I saw Les Miserable, which, by the way, is the only piece of entertainment that I know of that has ever made me cry. Im going to go see stonhenge tomorrow, but it would seem that paris is a no go. its only 2 1/2 hours away by train, but tickets are about £114. thats about $230. ah well. ces't la vie. ill check in when I can. Sorry for the lack of photos, but I havent been using my computer to go online. but have been stopping by internet cafe's and such. Well, adios for now.

Checking in

Still here, still alive (no thanks to steph), and still awed. Its hard to imagine the imposing nature of these ancient structures unless you are here. It is incredible to see these buildings, and know that many are older than the entire United States. Ah well, off to catch a train in the london underground. A message to the kids: save your money, save your time, go to europe. It will be money SUPER well spent. Just dont stay in london too long if you are on a budget... Until I can, this is me saying adios.

Update from London

Well, here I am in London with one of my best buds, Steph. My first trip anywhere near the atlantic. First impression: Everything here is sooooo godamned expensive. Ive already spent 600 bucks out of my 800 dollar budget, and it is the morining of day 2 of 10. It is really nice weather here. Sunny, but not too warm. The only wierd thing about this place, though, is that there is only about 6 hours of night. Its very strange. Very very strange, and it makes it hard for me to sleep, seeing as how the sun is rising as I am trying to sleep. It does make it so that I have alot of shooting hours during the day, though. Sunset at 930 pm, sunrise at 4 am. It is a cool place to be, though. Some updates to our travel plans have tenatively included going to Paris. Anyway, wish me financial luck, as Ill need it. Ill see you all when I return.

P.S. We are currently paying for internet (about 12 bucks an hour [6 pounds]) so I will probably not update as much as I would like unless I find something more feasible. Leave a comment if you want something from london, and I will get it if it is financially feasible.

Salton Sea

More Salton. Enjoy.

Back to the Show

Welcome back to the Salton Sea. Enjoy.

On an Unrelated Note

Just shot this for my travel class. The assgnment was architecture. I did something wierd to it, but I like it. It is the Santa Barbara Mission. Enjoy.

Too much! Too much!

Been very busy. Im sorry I havent posted more often, but with e3, and class just having started, and shitty internet connections (a.k.a. wired) in LA, I havent been able, or had sufficient energy motivation to post. But Ill hopefully have something for you soon.

Salton Sea

Sorry for the Delay. Finals and Shisnap. Salton after Dark.

Salton Sea

Sunset at the Salton Sea.

Salton Sea

Another Sunset Panoramic. Enjoy.

Salton Sea

Another haze shot at the Salton Sea.

Salton Sea

Post on a Pier at the Salton Sea. Enjoy.

Salton Sea

More Salton Sea. Enjoy.

Welcome to the Salton Sea

The Salton Sea. Enjoy.

A New Adventure

I took a trip recently. An awesome trip. A fantastic trip. A trip so magical, it gave me awesome photos. For the next week, you will see some of what I saw. Ill try not to say much so that the photos speak for themselves, but if you have questions, ask in the comments section, and Ill answer. So now, I introduce you to my new series:

Natural

La Cathedral

Another photo from my trip to El Salvador long ago. Its been photoshoped. Its the outside of the same cathedral that I posted a while ago. Enjoy.

Off the Hook

A friend was shooting a project at the Santa Monica Pier, and I went along to keep her company a while back. I found this phone off the hook, and decided to take a photo. Enjoy.

Come Original

So these are the originals for some of the recent photos that I have published on my blog. Compare and contrast. Let me know your reactions. Thanks.

A Morning in the Desert

Anthother of the Anza Borrego photos. Im not sure which I liked more, so give me your opinion. Also, I have included the original photo, so you can see what I did in photoshop. Tomorrow I will try to upload other originals. Enjoy.

Another Desert Photo

Another Desert Photo
Originally uploaded by Bringer of the Dead.

This is another photo I took while camping in Anza Borrego. I remember, it was so windy, that I could barely walk into the wind that day. My clothes would whip around me as I stood there. Everyone was sitting on cars as the sunset was coming. We eventually decuded to leave the place we were shooting sunset from. As we were leaving, I saw this radio tower. I thought it looked pretty cool, but I only had a about a minute or two before the sun's light was too far gone to be usable for a handheld photo, so I told Brenda, who was driving, to pull over. I knew what I wanted the shot to look like in my head, and when I jumped out the car, I knew I was in the wrong place. I was too far away, and too close to the road. So I jumped the fence that devided the highway from the desert, and started running. I pretty much sprinted to where I wanted to be, is easier said than done when running on desert sand in what was near darkness. When I got there, I took the photo. The original photo barely exposed enough to be usable, but it was enough. This is what came of it. Enjoy.


By the way, I just opened an account with flickr, and I am testing it. This is not necessarily the new format for posts, but let me know what you think.

***EDIT***

I have decided that flickr does not let me post photos as large as I would like you to be able to see them. It limits the size of my images, and I want to you all to be able to see the images in a larger form, so here it is. Please let me know your opinions regarding image size.

Bombs Away

Its a stink bug. Get it? Bombs? Stink? Meh... Same hike as the last. Enjoy.

Ive been busy

Santa Barbara has been treating me well. I have been doing some cool stuff in my video production class that I hope to post online sometime soon. Hopefully, I can put it all up by the end of next week, so that I may create a link to it from here. Meanwhile, this is a photo that I took while hiking in malibu a few weeks back. I meant to put it up a while ago, but it just never happened. Enjoy.

I wish it was mine

Did a photo shoot with my uncles car. Here is a photo from it. Enjoy.

Surreal

Here is a little bit of photoshop work. I like it. Has a nice feel. Did it in my photoshop class @ SMC.

A Memory

Here is a photo from a camping trip to Anza Borrego that I went on a year ago. I never got around to editing these photos, but I recently discovered a few that are worth showing. By the way, if you are ever in Santa Barbara, drop by. I get very bored.

First in Line

Great Blog, really funny. Check it out. Now. First in Line

Fighters of the Foo

I went to see a Foo Fighters concert not too long ago, and I managed to get off a couple shots... with my cell phone. I took one into photoshop to see what I could do with it, and this is what I got:



The original was all grainy, so I cleaned it up a bit, but if you want to see what the original was like (although the actual original is a little les contrasty, and doesnt pop as much), here it is:



Technology is coming along nicely.

Update

Well, its a new year, and I sadly dont have much I want to say. Alot has happened in my life recently, btu I dont feel that I want to discuss it here. Its not that I mind sharing, but Im just unmotivated. Here are some highlights:

- I now live in Santa Barbara
- I was accepted into the photo school I was applying to (Brooks Institute of Photography).
- Everyone I know that does photography has misgivings about my decision to study here.

To tell you the truth, the longer Im here, the more unsure I become in my decision. Dont get me wrong, I still love photography, but I dont know if this is the right school for me. I dont see myself learning as much as I had hoped, so in the end, Im paying for a piece of paper that says I endured (Bachelors). Is that piece of paper worth it? I could get it in a different field, and I would pay alot less... like English! Except Nick would see me dead before he acknowledged that I have a decent knowledge of a language. I want that piece of paper so I can teach. Thats it. I can work with the photo knowledge I have, but I cant teach without the paper. Dammit!

Old Portraits

I found some old portraits that I like. Decided to share. Enjoy.

Portfolio

So, here is my new business card layout, and my promo piece. Enjoy.

Business Card:



Promo Piece:

More Stars

Another shot from my portfolio. Vader in his favorite color. Enjoy.

Death's Monologues

I have once again returned to the full glory of what it is to be the trasporter.

Good News

"Orgasm is probably incredibly good for the brain," Komisaruk says. "The entire organ is being oxygenated."

from: Female Orgasm News

Begin Again

This is part of my new portfolio, which happens to be a toy series. Enjoy.

Tiny Human

This is an assignment for my digital capture class. The idea was to get a tiny human to do a tiny human thing, so here it is. Enjoy.

A Chrismas Dream

A friend said post poetry, and so I did:

The world lives in a crisis
It shatters like a Christmas dream
My hopes, dreams, and my future are all contained in that world
I live with what I created
I live with what I destroyed
I fight, for what I believe to be good, but only help in bringing forth what’s wrong
To attain peace, I must destroy the enemy
To destroy the enemy, I must cause war
I see only hopelessness ahead
It is a horizon that never nears
A path that never ends
An endless loop

Not Some Mumbo Jumbo

These are words. Real words. Words that mean something. Enjoy.

ph7ness

Here is a photo in possible progress, or maybe finished. Let me know what you think. DO NOT POST IT ANYWHERE OFFICIAL YET (steph). :)