uh oh.

a sketch for an idea i've had. from here.

40 years ago today

by Neil Armstrong

the exposure project / Jessica Bruah

I found a photographer who made Lake Delton the center of her MFA thesis at SVA on a blog that also happened to mention me today. The Exposure project looks to be a pretty great little collective of contemporary up-and-coming photographers and Jessica Bruah's work shows what happened when Mother Nature decides there won't be a lake at the Dells for one summer. I went to the lake last July to shoot and made a few images vowing I would return to take more. I never did. I'm glad Jessica did. The resulting images document a once-in-a-lifetime event that no one in our lifetime will perhaps get to experience again.

Jessica Bruah, "Tourists at Boat Landing, Lake Delton" (From the series No Lake This Summer)

2 megapixel vs 4x5

you be the judge... I'm really interested in hearing other people's thoughts on this. I just recently found out how to get images off my cell phone (I don't know what took me so long) and have retrieved the images from my Tennessee trip. Here's one that's from the exact same vantage point. I'm going to be doing more experiments with my 2 megapixer in my upcoming trips... I can't wait to see what happens.

2 megapixel from a samsung M610

kodak 160 nc 4x5 scanned at 16bit 2040 dpi (400 mb file).

so cool

Obama was in town yesterday for a conference and I happened to be biking down the lakefront trail when he arrived... It was f@#!ing awesome! When I got to about soldier field, the trail was blocked off by cops on horses so I turned around. About 30 seconds later, 2 huge black helicopters fly over me and land about 100 yards away. Then marine one comes and flys about 30 feet over my head. My mouth was just hanging open :) I couldn't really see anything up close so I went back to Lake Shore by Balbo, right by my school, and the whole motorcade roles by about 2 minutes later. It was so cool. Easily one of the highlights of summer break so far.

Presidential motorcade on Lake Shore Dr.

parked Marine One by soldier field

Chamberlain, SD #2

Chamberlain, SD #1