There is a Fleet Foxes song called 'White Winter Hymnal' in which they sing about turning "The white snow red as strawberries in summertime", that's all I could think of during this shoot, also just in case you missed it the theme here is from a comic called hack/slash.
Now Playing: Placebo - One of a Kind
Sometimes all you can see is the rage.
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Babel
Exhausted after a great new years eve and a nice day at work I find myself driving home witnessing one of the most amazing sunsets I've seen in my short life.
I speed to the only close spot I know that has a great view of the horizon, turn my car off before it has come to a full stop and fling the lens cap off my camera quick enough to send it bouncing off the door and under my seat.
I then spent the next 30 minutes running/skipping from area to area making 94 images. This is my first day of 2011, and I will make every other one just as amazing. The best part is that the day isn't even over yet! We make life what it is and I choose to make it amazing. Good or bad I will feel it all.
The next four posts are the images I made today running around like little kid with a new toy, except my new toy is the world and I'll play with it all day. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed creating them.
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Girl I Love You
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
In the cold grass I'll lay, in the dew I'll pray, for something to take me, someone come take me.
The cold grass so soft, my time's up no more.
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Atlas Air
Happy new year everyone! Thank you for taking an interest in my attempt to create something beautiful!
Now Playing: Right Away, Great Captain - Captain I'm Fine and Thank You For Everything
The last image of this year, by the tone of it I wonder if I'll be back.
Now Playing: Anja Garbarek - Sleep
Kind of glad the season for sugar is over. Too much will kill ya.
Now Playing: Ghost Society - Better Days
Beautiful sky in the early morning. Something about light through the trees I'm just always drawn to it.
Now Playing: James Vincent McMorrow - Early In the Morning
There was a beam of light shooting strait up from the sun tonight, it made me think of the movie Contact for some reason.
Now Playing: James Vincent McMorrow - This Old Dark Machine
Sooo much candy.
Now Playing: James Vincent McMorrow - Sparrow and the Wolf
I think I like this side best right now.
Now Playing: Beirut - The Penalty
What an amazing Christmas present, and yes it took up most of my day.
Now Playing: Mad Men - Season One
Once we as humans destroy what's left of the rainforest I wonder if we will attempt to replace it with something manufactured.
Now Playing: Blue Foundation - Eyes on Fire
What can I say? All of these are delicious together.
So the original idea of this was to make my skin look like a cracked desert... well turns out it's a fair bit more time consuming than I anticipated as I couldn't seem to get it right on the first try in two and a half hours.
The result of that work is the two images below, I tend to invert some of my shots for fun while processing to see how it brings different things out that I may not notice normally and with this shot I liked the inverted image better than the standard one.
Let me know which one you like best in the comments.
The second inverted version
Now Playing: Anthony Green - She Loves Me So (Innerpartysystem Remix)
So much candy and sugar around this time of year, the first plate is fun, the rest makes me just want to beg for something green and leafy instead.
Tonight I really enjoyed the juxtaposition of christmas lights against the beautiful winter night sky. Figured I'd share it with my camera and you all.
Now Playing: Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Continuing on the texture theme but making my own gradient with somewhat natural light... can't really call Christmas lights natural but it works.
Now Playing: Blind Fury.... haha
