Finding Zen

A series of photos that I have been meaning to shoot for a while now. Quite a while.

My sister asked that I shoot something for her new house. Nothing specific, only that it fit the zen quality of the room that it would be in, preferably black and white or sepia toned, and that it be a triptych to hang.

I've had ideas in my head for quite a while about what I wanted to shoot, but haven't had the time or motivation to actually take the photos. I finally got to the photos today and found that in creating some zen photos I found a bit of zen myself.

It's funny... I think sometimes you have to take certain photos at the right time to get what you want, and sometimes that moment finds you so that the photos do as much for you as you do for the photos. I'm crazy, right? 

Oh. Click through for full view, they look better and show more of what detail there really is. I think in 20x20 prints, these will be pretty nice.

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio, Studio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Polaroid

Been playing with some polaroid lately, took a few photos this past weekend. This is from a Polaroid Land Model 350, which shoots on 100 pack film.


The film, of course, is from Aperture in Tremont (www.aperturetremont.com)

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Polaroid Land 350

Ashley

Studio work with Ashley.

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Virginia

We just got back earlier this week from our trip to Virginia. We headed down for the Easter holiday to visit Sarah's home town and spend the holiday with her family and friends. All in all, it was pretty successful... we drove 1,400 miles in six days, visited a ton of different places and got to hit quite a few antique malls and shops along the road.

This is the first real view of the mountains we had when we got to Virginia (a panoramic stitch of 8 photos)... at least the first real view we had that wasn't from inside the car. After our planned detour off the highway through West Virginia (a photo of that to come later), we arrived in Callaway Va., part of the scenic (read: middle of no where) Franklin County. This is just down the road from where we stayed the first two nights of our trip. Not a bad place to get away from it all... and not a bad place to catch a sunset the first night of your vacation either.

Photograph Info:
Location: Franklin Co, Virginia
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm

Dominga

This weekend I once again had the pleasure of shooting with Lucy Dominga, a model from the Columbus area. This is a concept that I've had in mind for a while, and have been searching for a collar to pull it off... a little more difficult than I imagined. Luckily, Sarah found this fantastic collar at a little boutique in Lakewood and let me shoot with it. Lucy is a great model, and pulled this off like very few could. I'm really happy with how this and the rest of the photos from the day turned out.

A special thank to Sarah, for the collar and for doing the fabulous make up work, and to Herb Ascherman for the use of his studio space over on the east side of Cleveland.

Photograph Info:
Location: Cleveland Ohio
Camera: Canon 5DMII
Lens: 24-70 mm