Tonight I went to Frys to buy a tabletop tripod for my point and shoot. Sure enough I bought it and started talking to the camera sales man who wanted to check out the camera I was using.

Thats the nerd. His name was Sam and he was laughing at me for being a 4/3rds user.  I whipped out the Sigma and snuck a portrait of the guy. Nice dude, but didnt know squat about actual photography. Just cameras.

Well after chatting outside of the car I noticed that the sky was gorgeous. So I rushed to the areas I liked and started shooting away.

Then I got carried away with the photography and shot some other neat things. I love how this camera slows me down so I actually stop to see things again.

That last one was super dark so I made it look like a film scan. Corney I know.

After I was done shooting and happy with my results. I walked back to the car and realized I left the keys on the passenger seat. OOPS. I had to call up AAA and get a locksmith out to help me out. Welp, adventure doesnt come without idiocy.

I have many friends and now I will write paragraphs and paragraphs about them.

This is Chris Evett. He likes bugs and moonlit walks on the beach.

This is David Langley and he is a cool dude.

This is a dragon. Dragons live in china.

http://www.stern.de/olympia2008/fotostrecken/:Fotostrecke-Die-Bilder-Spiele/634192.html?cp=1

Nothing new to report, but came across these photos. They’re awesome.

Today I shot my favorite and only willing model named Jaime Trindle. She is a good pal and never turns me down for a photo session. We have been working together since April or so.

She has a great “serious” look and pulls it off very well.

I have really been working on my posings for these types of shoots. I get a ton of ideas sitting at work and never really seem to put them to use. I think I am getting better at it.

After that I decided to set her up on a sewer and said, “start dancing!” as I would like to say. She was kind of shy about it so I went to town.

Yup, I was promptly told I suck at dancing. She’s a bit better.

My favorite shot of the series is actually set up to be more of a product shot. Jaime did a bit of hand and lip modeling as well!

Anyways I was happy with the results. Thanks to Jaime and all who even take a look.

A few weeks back I took a trip to New York to visit my friend Nikki and see one of my favorite funk bands play live on a yacht. It was awesome and I will go ahead and start with the postings!

This is Nikki and my best friend Chewie. We’ve been through alot together and this trip was no slouch. It started that day at 7am to get to the airport to fly up to Newark. After we arrived, Nikki picked us up from the airport and we traveled to Penn Station in downtown Newark. From there, Chewie and I quickly changed into our clothes in the car and hitched a ride on a train to New York. But our quest didnt stop there. From the subway exit, we walked to Chelsea Pier and finally had a chance to grab a beer and a bite to eat. This photo was taken at the brewery/resturant and was delicious.

Here are some portraits of these two chumps at the pier. It turns out Nikki bought the wrong ticket for the show and she had to bug every passerby for a trade. This worked in her favor as the dude who was manning the ticket booth gave in 15minutes until the show and gave her a ticket. Lucky girl…

Chewy was super happy to be there. He is going on 26 hours or so of no sleep at that time by the way.

Now some shots of the show.

Down to the Bone were so much more awesome live than they are on their albums. Museli Brown was probably the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while and the memory wont leave me soon. I actually danced to some of the songs and I dance like a fool. The yacht was incredible and very lavish with a top deck and seating for 500 passengers. When I go to these things I have an idea in mind to shoot for and I usually dont travel very much outside of that. So I dont take alot of tourist photos anymore, which I feels increases the quality. This is why when I travel to a city I dont shoot buildings, unless theres something worth shooting.

The Jersey City skyline, the grandur of New York was right behind me and I thought this was better. Compositionally I believe it is.

After a long trip back to bloomfield NJ, I fell asleep on the couch from exhaustion. Flew back the next day and dumped the photos and forgot about them. I looked at them then and wasnt too impressed with the results. After a month break I looked again and noticed there was some nice stuff in there. So here they are!

All photos shot with an Olympus E-3 with a Panasonic Summilux 25mm 1.4

This probably has a name other than that, but my photographer friend William Hogan (www.famouswilliamhogan.com) showed this to me the other week so im dubbing it that. Basically it means setting your exposures for a minute and stopping down hard to capture alot of light.

Just a little fun thing to do with a camera.

I went to this darling town of Franklin Tn. where I ate a deluxe dinner in a prison (it was a restaurant) and shot a wedding for an awesome couple. There was some downtime so I walked around and snapped some shots off in my black uniform in 105 degree heat. It was alot of fun and here are a couple of the good ones from that little jaunt. Franklin is a very rich area with the look and appeal of a small town. Lets just say I stuck out like a sore thumb….

This time they should say Peter Ogilvie instead of wedding media group…. thats the company i work for.

I went into photo barn, the local photography shop around here, to look for a filter for a lens. The only thing I did was ask for a filter and then I always run into this guy.

He helped me out for about 30 minutes trying to find a filter for this lens. He didnt have a 44mm filter (We found out its a “series 6″ here i am buying 30 year old glass….). Welp so after we’re all done I start feeling bad and get the itch to buy a monopod, so I do. He sells the Manfrotto to me with ease with a custom rolled cigarette hanging out of his mouth and a thick southern accent. We chat about photography for about another half an hour and I head on my way. Only about a mile down the road I realized I didnt want to spend any money at all, but I had to buy something from Photobarn Bill. The total for the sale was 66bucks (a 40 dollar monopod with a 25 dollar swivel head). Thanks Bill, my bank account resents your southern sales

So I used it tonight for more low light shots.

All shots done with a 50mm f2 Leica Summicron R, mostly at 1/20 f/2 iso 200.

As I turned around to leave the store, Bill turned to me and said, “Huave faun with yer new toy nawh!” Thanks.

I had an idea once with my good pal The Rat Fandom one day to create a video game based around the Ghostbusters. Well as many know our dream will come true in the form of a new game coming out this fall. The new game differs from the story I had in mind but tonight I decided to do a little concept sketch.

I wanted to bring the ghostbusters closer to home. So my plot takes place in savannah during the 80’s after the ghostbusters in New York clean up Gozer. Pretty much three janitors named Clive, Otis, and Jebediah decide to open up a franchise in savannah because people are always talking about how many ghosts are in savannah so its a no brainer to have a ghostbuster branch right? Well the 3 janitors find out that actually there are no ghosts in savannah and the company goes bankrupt. So about a year and thousands of dollars in debt later, Evil General Lee’s Ghost rises from the dead to take revenge on the good people of savannah for not driving the Union out of the confederacy. So its up to Clive, Otis, and Jebidiah to save the world before the greatest country ever to grace this fine land falls under control of the slack jawed undead!

Yeah its awesome and I know and I need to make it. But life happens and you do what you can. Actually i was inspired by this thread  on the something awful forums. I was telling myself the whole time I could make a better game than that and I remembered the ill fated Ghostbusters: Savannah.

More photography and probably drawings of Otis and Jebediah to come!