No Shave November

On Monday, Jacob Stordahl (one of my Digital Photography students at Hamline) took a photo of me for an on-going "No Shave November" project of his. Here was what I was able to grow:

It's a bit shaggier longer now that it's been another 5 days, but my wife says it won't make it through the day tomorrow (December 1st). RIP beard of 2013.

Driving Through Southern Minnesota

I spent 4 hours on the road earlier today as I took my son to Grandma's for the weekend. I stopped for a few photos (just on my phone) at an abandoned garage on top of a small hill along Hwy 30.

Evolution of the Camera

Five Photo Links for Early November

• 1: Here's a trailer for an upcoming documentary called "Long Live Film." I don't need to tell you what the movie is about.

Direct Link: http://youtu.be/TdmozD2eBp8

I really agree with the line "I like HOW it makes me shoot..." I've been staying that for years.

(Side note: it looks like they didn't shoot the film on film. If they were really smart, they would have...)

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• 2: Buzzfeed was using a photograph from a photographer/engineer from California. But they didn't ask to use it. He posted about copyright issues and his fight with Buzzfeed after he found this photo of his on one of their most popular posts:

CLICK HERE for the photographers story (which ends up turing out OK for him as Buzzfeed agreed to pay his invoice for $500 to a charity).

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• 3: Who says you can't be "discovered?" Rosie Hardy was a young photographer with a Flickr page when a little band named Maroon 5 stumbled across her work.

The band liked one of her images, and contacted her to shoot something like that for their new album. And now it's on the cover of their CD. CLICK HERE for more on Rosie and a video about her story being discovered. (But this won't keep me from still telling my students "don't WAIT to be discovered - you've gotta go work for it!")

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• 4: Recognize this photo?

Probably not. But there's quite the story to it, which ends in the only time that 2 men from the same aircraft received the Congressional Medal of Honor for a mission. CLICK HERE for the entire story if you're a history / WWII / photography buff.

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• 5: And finally, here's a depressing little CNN article for other Adjunct Professors like me. It's titled "Adjunct professors are the new working poor." Damn. (But I should make sure to point out that it IS an "opinion" piece. If you want to put yourself in the middle of a big debate, read through the comments of that article...)

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Mouth and Eyes

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

-Samuel Palmer

Best Professor T-Shirt

Reddit just posted something that I'd LOVE to do....

A Quick Test

As a photographer with a toddler at home, I think many of you know what my answer is....

Digi Photo Classroom at Hamline University

We're 5 weeks into the semester at Hamline, and I thought I'd show you my new classroom.

16 stations, an instructor station, and 3 flatbed / film scanners.




11-color Epson 4900 printer station on the other side of the "half wall" to the right in the first photo.


The adjunct office near my classroom. It's a lot of space to share with only 2 other professors.


Another computer and corner in my office.

At my request, some homasote board was put up in the hallways around the Digital Media Arts department around my classroom (which is in the basement so the hallways are nothing fancy). I had my class hang their prints from our first critique last week:

Click to enlarge