X-Ray Selfie

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.

My Work as part of the 'Voyages' Issue of the New York Times Magazine Website

As I explained in my last post, I was one of many photographers hired to do a nationwide project for the New York Times Magazine. But after shooting, the Times changed their idea to just be around the New York City area.

A few weeks after that (under a week ago), they opened it back up to anyone around the nation - they were going to feature more work on their website. Thursday night, I saw that one of my photos had made the cut - I was one of about 30 photographers included on their site, and I was among names like Walter Iooss and Gregory Heisler.

The NY Times Magazine website for their "Voyages" issue.


My image in the middle from along the Mississippi - an area I run by a few times a month.


Close up from the website.

A few more photos have since been added, so now there are 42 in the gallery. Check out the online "Local Voyages" project here, and look for the "Voyages" issue to come out this Sunday on newsstands.

Go to my last post to see everything I shot for this project.

And go here (and start scrolling down) to see details from the other 4 projects I've done over the years for the NY Times Magazine. I've had a few friends ask about my other projects for them recently.

New York Times Magazine "Local Voyages" Project

I originally posted what appears below on Saturday, February 9th. I took it down temporarily right after that because the NY Times didn't want anything out there about the project (even if they were images that they weren't going to publish). Well, the project is being published this weekend, so they're now ready for any of these shots to go public.

You'll read shortly that I was hired to be one of the photographers doing this project for the Times Magazine, but then they decided to make it a local project a few days later and not use any photos from outside of the NY area (which includes my images). The GOOD NEWS is that they changed their project AGAIN, and one of my images below made it onto their website. More on that in a few days.

In the meantime, here's the original post of mine from earlier last month:

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[Originally posted February 9, 2013.]

On Wednesday, I got a phone call from one of the photo editors at the New York Times Magazine. She asked me to take part in a nationwide photo project they were calling "Local Voyages." They were asking photographers who use Instagram from all across the USA to take a short "local voyage" to show or uncover something that might make people say "who knew that was there?" It had to be a short trip or something that could be discovered over a long lunch. The only other rules were that it had to be near home, you couldn't touch the images in Photoshop, and you had to use your camera phone and Instagram to submit your images.

Intriguing!

And in typical magazine fashion, they wanted the photos in 5 days.

I had a few ideas, and they all revolved around the Mississippi River. Everyone KNOWS the River is there, but there are parts of it that are a little less known. I ended up using the idea that someone working in Downtown Minneapolis could head south over a long lunch and run / hike along the Mississippi River to Minnehaha Falls. There's the popular "River Road" that has a trail right along it that could get a person from downtown to the Falls, but there are plenty of hidden trails that wind directly along the River's edge that I wanted to explore for this. (I live less than a mile off of the River, and there were plenty of trails that even I hadn't explored, and I run down along the River a few times a week.)

Before I show some of my photos, you need to know the rest of the story. I was called by the NY Times Magazine on Wednesday, and I went out to shoot / run on Thursday morning. On Friday, I learned that they changed the project to just be about NY City and the surrounding area. So my photos won't be used by the Times, but I'd still like to show them here.

So here's my edit of 16 photos from this project that starts with foggy downtown seen from the Stone Arch Bridge:

Under the Interstate 94 bridge connecting Minneapolis and St. Paul.


Frozen sewer drains below Franklin Ave.








Lake Street Bridge.


Hidden waterfall near the University of St. Thomas.

And then I arrived at Minnehaha Falls, and all 50 feet of it was frozen solid:

Slowest run ever.

So none of these will be seen outside of my blog, but I still wanted to share them all with you. I can't wait to check out the "Local Voyages" photo project in the New York Times Magazine in the next few weeks to see what it ended up looking like. I'll let you know if I learn more about when that project is being published.

Finding Vivian Maier

Add this to your "must see" list. What a woman of mystery....

http://youtu.be/2o2nBhQ67Zc

Photo Journals

Lisa Congdon has just created a journal filled with photo-related quotes that will soon be available.

All I Know From Photoshop I Learned From This Video

Enjoy:

http://youtu.be/EOar7toRw80

I'm glad I NOW know how do deal with the issue of the gorilla eating my pointer.

Update on New York Times Project

If you're here to see photos that I shot a few days ago for a project for the New York Times Magazine, I had to take that post down for a while. My images won't be used as a part of the project, but they didn't want any publicity out there regarding the project until it's printed. So once it's published, I'll re-post my images.

Thanks!