Artist: E.J. Carr

My dad graduated from Brooks Institute with E.J. Carr. He's been living in NY photographing fashion, portrait and celebrities. His recent photos have been of golf courses in Ireland. He first gave me the idea to make my book about golf. He has inspired me to shoot my photography of golf.

Some pages.....

Cover of book

something like this....

New pages....

Start of my book...

Oliver Herring

I thought at first it was very unusual to see what he was photographing. A guy splitting colored food dye onto his face. After seeing his images printed I kinda liked the look of them. I liked the color or colors of the paint on the guys face and the way it looked photographed.

Reza Abedini

I had never heard of the artist Reza Abedini before. After browsing through some of his work I got a chance to see what his work consists of. I like a lot of his posters. I like how he uses typography in his work. Although I cannot read what he writes in his work because it is in farsi, I do enjoy the look and layout of it.

Arturo Herrera

I had never seen anyone put film into water for the purpose of getting the effect of what the water does to the film. I thought that his experiences with this is very creative. The look of his images from this technique makes it look very abstract. He is using a few stages in his process of getting his images this way. I was excited to see some of his wall paintings but the video was turned off before we were able to see any of them. So I decided to post one of his wall paintings.

Tom Scott

I enjoyed looking at some of the photographs by Tom Scott. The series of his photographs of the sand are very interesting to me. I live at the beach and see somewhat of the same images that Tom Scott has taken but never have really noticed the patterns they all have and imagined how they would look if they were photographed. After seeing some of his work, it makes me want to go out on the beach and try taking some of my own.

My book.....

I am thinking that my book will be about me. I want my book to mostly consist of my photography. Photography that I have taken in the past and will continue to take in the future. I also want to have in my book; writings, scanned images, notes, drawings etc. things by me. I will design the book so that it pulls together all of these elements. Not every page in my book will relate to one another but every page will relate to me. My book is going to be RAD!

Stefan Sagmeister

What a name. His last name sound like Jagermeister. I have seem some of his work. I find a lot of his work to be very edgy. For an example I added to this blog spot one of his works that I have seem probably the most from him. One of the reasons why I enjoy looking at his work is because it always catches your attention. When I look at a photograph I want the photograph to grab my attention. With his work I always feel this way.

Masterpiece!

I have mastered Adobe InDesign, can't you tell.

My shadow

The other day some friends and some of my family along with myself were hanging out at 15th street in Del Mar. We picked up some sandwiches at Board N Brew on our way. After having lunch, I brought out my bocce ball set which is a must do at 15th street and threw a couple of games. While playing bocce ball I noticed my shadow on the grass from the sun which was setting. After realizing I had my camera on me I started to snap away......

Maximillion

Here is a photo of my parents new dog. He is a Golden Retreiver. His name is Max!

Good boy Max!

Graffiti Shot

I took this picture right next to Pizza Port in Solana Beach. I like the composition of the shot, how the viewer is looking through the fence at the graffiti. I like how I made the graffiti in focus and the fence not in focus. You can tell that I took this in front of a fence. I think that the fence and the graffiti have this connection between themselves that captures a general essence of graffiti.

Clip of David Carson

I agreed with what David Carson had to say about typography. The use of a certain type of font can change the look of a word, phrase and or sentence tremendously with the right use of typography. I like how Carson's use of different font's make his work as a designer more edgy.

Getting started.......

So I just created my blog. Can't wait to find ways to use and abuse it.