tree climber

ann koenig, 35, of columbia, mo is one of the two missourians who will take part in an international tree climbing competition in st. louis this weekend. koenig works for the columbia department of conservation and practices climbing on the white oaks that are a few meters away from her office.
i took these shots last weekend for the st. louis post-dispatch. john, thanks for giving them my number.

images from the past few months (episode 2)

cooper's landing, october 19th, '07.

images from the past few months (episode 1)

saturday, march 22, the hearnes center in columbia, mo, hosted a ceremony for the 1076 missouri national guard soldiers that were about to be deployed to kosovo on a one year peace keeping mission. in the last image 2nd lt. timothy grenke, mayor of centralia, mo, embraces his son brian, 4, and is being hugged by his daughter rose, 8, while jessica, his older daughter, 17, watches them.

hai romania!!!

“some people think football is a matter of life and death. i assure you, it's much more serious than that.” - bill shankly (scottish soccer player and manager, 1913-1981)



euro 2008 starts tomorrow. romania plays the first game on monday against france. we're gonna give them hell!! italy and nederland are next after that...

earth day

i took this frame while i was shooting for a class assignment. i am probably not going to use it in the project that i am going to turn in for the class - at least not in this toned version - so i'm posting it here. my buddy john t. likes it and i kinda agree with him.
disclaimer:
the vignetting is not artificially added. i used a full frame camera with a wide lens to take this image. there's also some strange blue stuff on the upper corners that came with the original shot. i got it on other frames too so i think it's the lens-camera combination that generates that.

the house

hubbell house has been my home for the last ten months. it was fun. except for the winter bills.

advanced techniques assignment_multiple flash

i was supposed to post this picture quite a while ago. what can i say, i'm a serial procrastinator.

paquin tower

take a great organizer - jamie kanki - an awesome photographer - danny wilcox frazier- and eleven photo-j students eager to push their limits in search for their personal visions, mix all these ingredients together and you'll get the best day of this semester. that day was on friday and made me realize how many talented people i have the chance to meet with every day at this school.

marlene johnson

marlene is 43 and she is suffering from severe arthritis. she moved to columbia five years ago to meet her soul sister and she has lived at paquin for the last four years. she is moving out on monday. she said it is time for her to move on. marlene is a big fan of wwe wrestler john cena. she said she never misses his fights.

gwen ervin

ervin is 65 and he recently moved to paquin tower. he lost his right leg in august 2007. initially the doctors amputated only his toes because they were frost bitten. the leg didn't heal and they had to amputate it over the knee. ervin is from florida and at the time he started having problems with his leg he was living in waynesville, mo. he has no friends or relatives in columbia but he wants to stay and live here.

golf and layers

i've been trying to work on the layering lately. first impressions? it's not easy. but it's fun. this is what i came up with today at the old hawthorne golf club in columbia. mizzou golf players taught some golf lessons to 8th grade and younger kids.

i miss (real) football

yeah, i know people here call it soccer but i don't like to call it like that. this is football 'cause people who play it kick the ball with their feet!!! makes sense, no?
anyway, here this is a sport for women. from where i come from this is a sport for men. i had this interesting conversation today with a friend. i was trying to explain to her that when women play it this sport loses a lot of its beauty. i am not a misogynist pig. i just think that girls are better than guys at some sports and vice versa. she didn't agree with me.

the blue (magenta?) fugue

Another Advanced Techniques assignment. This time it was the gelled flash. I'm not a big fan of flash photography and I definitely am not good at it - the picture bellow is an example - but I have to work my butt hard and learn how to use that tool. It might be useful sometimes.
So The Blue Fugue, downtown Columbia. A band from Nashville, Tennessee. Their music sounded pretty good.
Let there be ROCK!!!

snapping in the rain

Rainy days in CoMo. That was on Monday. Now the sun is shining again. Hurray for that!!!

game/set/match

For some reason I feel like shooting in b&w lately. It will probably go away, but for now, I like my stuff better this way.

BALLS!!!

Second studio assignment for the Advanced Techniques in Photojournalism Class. This time my task was to photograph metal objects. I had some troubles finding an idea. Finally, I decided to take the chance and play with some steel spheres. Challenging, risky and fun. A lot of fun! The idea is not 100 % original. I browsed a lot of stock photography sites before going into the studio and my picture is the combination between two images I saw on the internet. One of them was a photograph of iron spheres arranged like pool balls, the other was a 3D rendered sphere on a checkered surface. I tried to reproduce the 3d rendered sphere in the studio, and I added a few other balls. I couldn't find big spheres so I had to use a macro lens. That's why the depth of field is so shallow.





Camera: Nikon D2Hs
Lens: Nikkor 60 mm Micro
ISO: 200
Shutter Speed: 1/250s
Aperture: f/36

splash!

I finally got the chance to go through my outtakes from the Missouri Swimming Grand Prix. I went there hoping to get some great shots, but it didn't turn out that way. Nevertheless it was a very interesting experience. And a very humid one.
First some b&w selects...

And...splash!

And here's the color...