Ax-Man Organization

Just a few shots from the last time I was in Ax-Man Surplus with my boys:

Monthly Challege 11 of 12: Making/Selling Some Prints

Last month, I made a few prints that some friends wanted to purchase:

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That's 3 different 4 a.m. photos, and a photo of rainbow carrots from my Mom's garden.


To show scale: just small images on 11x17 paper.


This print wasn't shown, but I also printed this image.

Cherry Tomatoes in the Snow

Here are some of my cherry tomatoes from last week:

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The next day, they had melted into the snow a bit.

Ripening Cherry Tomatoes

A few weeks ago, I made a fun pic while harvesting cherry tomatoes from our small urban garden:

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Carrots

I recently helped my Mom dig her colorful carrots on her farm:

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Tiny Clam Shells

This weekend, my boys and I went to Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River for a few hours one night. They played with rocks as I played with some tiny shells:

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For a sense of scale, here they are in my hand before I started sorting them:

A 10-Step Hue Scale in Ripening Tomatoes

What did I say in my last post about my background in color theory showing? Here's a pic I just made in my son's sandbox:

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Leaves Organized Neatly

Another one of my photos has made an appearance on Things Organized Neatly:

When I published this post, the post on Things Organized Neatly had 1605 notes. Sweet.

Eastern Wahoo Leaves, Organized Neatly

It wouldn't be early autumn if I didn't post a pick like this:

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Featured on "Things Organized Neatly"

My tomatoes photo from last month was recently featured on Things Organized Neatly:

Right now, it has almost 2,300 notes! Check it out HERE.

Ripening Tomatoes

A week ago, it started snowing here in Minnesota, and we've been in a deep freeze ever since. A few weeks before that, we picked all of the remaining green tomatoes from the plants in our veggie garden. Here's how some are ripening up:

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Eastern Wahoo Leaves (Organized Neatly)

I had to "borrow" a few leaves from my neighbor's tree last week:

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This Morning's Harvest in Spectral Order

Our tiny 1.5' x 17' urban garden has done well this summer. (Here's an Instagram photo of our narrow garden from mid-August.) Now that it's October, it's slowing down a bit. Here's what I harvested with my son today:

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Found While Excavating the Garage

We just dug up the concrete around our garage, and here are a few random things I found in the process:

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Incredibly Organized Studio

Videographer Casey Neistat has his shit together:

Direct link: http://vimeo.com/68558518

A Semester's Worth of 35mm Film

I saved all the 35mm film cartridges from the Photo Lab last semester at the College of Visual Arts. Here are all 225 torn-open film cartridges that were processed last semester between 2 Intro to Photo classes:

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Just for fun.

Another Appearance on "Things Organized Neatly"

Two days ago, I posted 2 "cute" photos of fall colors. I submitted those photos to the popular tumblr site called Things Organized Neatly, and 1 was almost instantly published.

Here's how it looked on their site, along with all the likes, comments, and reblogs over the first 16 hours or so:

Thanks Things Organized Neatly!! Always fun to see my work up on your site!

CLICK HERE to see my submission on Things Organized Neatly. (And click here to see my first photo on Things Organized Neatly from last October.)

My Appearance on "Things Organized Neatly"

Do you know about this site? I'm obsessed with it. It fulfills some sort of OCD need for me. I submitted a photo about 2 months ago, and just a few days ago, I saw that it "made the cut" and was featured on Things Organized Neatly. Here's a screenshot with all of the likes and reblogs at the bottom:

CLICK HERE to go to my entry on Things Organized Neatly.

Well, I can check THAT off my bucket list...

Things Organized Neatly

I never get sick of Things Organized Neatly:

Canon Digital Camera




Books


Art Supplies (because a new semester is about to begin)


Morton Bros Piano


Preparing to ship a batch of prints

More Fun With Color

I need a break from large "series-based" work now-and-then. So lately, I've been catching myself taking these Andy Goldsworthy-esque photos just for the sake of beauty. (Take my post a few days ago as an example.)

Well I did it again with the remnants of our first snowfall of the season. This time, I spent an hour yesterday morning rearranging berries in my front yard that were picked off our tree. I love how calming and meditative the process is.

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Cute. A little "fun." A little boring.

When I checked back 4 hours later, I was able to make a better photo. The sun had gently melted the berries into the snow:

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I found a nice quote from Andy Goldsworthy that speaks to the images he makes of his "installations." It may say something about the pair of images I made above.

Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

- Goldsworthy's quote from "Andy Goldsworthy: Art of nature." Feb 19, 2006.