Soup Dumplings
Yes they’re store-bought. No I don’t care. Yes, they’re as delicious as they look. 🤤 The dipping sauce is Fly By Jing’s Szechuan Chili Crisp. 🤤🤤🤤
Once A Giant
21 years. That’s how long it’s been since I was last a student here on this campus. I was a kid. A kid with a drinking problem, at that. I don’t remember a lot from my days here, but I do remember always feeling so small on campus. Like, physically small. The campus always felt…
Office Day
Today’s office: Downtown Visalia, CA with Elizabeth and Jarred. This is the first time I’ve ever done a maternity photoshoot and I was incredibly-honored that they trusted me with this. 🥹 Photos coming soon.
Office Day
Today’s office: Skyline Trail for Middlestate shooting content for Tulare County Federal Credit Union.
Striped Adobe Lily
I’ve long been a supporter of everything Sequoia Riverlands Trust does. Today, they opened a site I’ve never been to before—Lewis Hill in Porterville, CA—to show off something that you can only really see here in Central California: the striped adobe lily. The striped adobe lily is actually an endangered flower and only grows for…
Midnight In A Perfect World
It’s a strange thing to lay witness to a dead city. Theyr’e the last of us. 📷: 24-70mm 2.8 L
LEARNING THE CAMERA: The Details of the Lens
For those of you who only recently joined our group shutterbugs, I have taken the liberty of expanding the old camera basics post with a newly-expanded handout dealing with the basics of the camera lens; another handout detailing the use of the camera shutter will be coming soon. This is quite a long handout topping…
BASICS OF THE CAMERA: Choose a Camera & Film
10 students in class today and each got a camera while we took a quick stroll through the campus to start shooting our first roll of film. I don’t care how good the shots are for right now, I just want you guys to get familiar with the camera. Creativity will come later. One cannot…
INTRODUCTION to Black & White Photography
This class will be a basic guide to black-and-white photography, covering all the points taught in a typical introductory class. We will start at the beginning, assuming you know little or nothing about photography, and we will go through using your camera, developing film, and making and finishing prints. Although there is much to learn,…
Supplies
“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I got my invoice for the order I made earlier from Mike’ Quality Camera: Purchase order will (hopefully) be submitted on Monday and we can pick up our materials as soon as they clear the check. I am still good on…