I GOT SCAMMED.

 
    I have deleted this mildly popular post. I honestly had no idea it would be viewed by over 11,000 people in 4 days.
   I hope everyone learned a good bit of advice
   Back to posting what I do.



  christopher.

Everything Random

I take a lot of pictures. In fact, I am almost never without a camera not including my iPhone. 

I never really show the random meaningless pictures I take. 

But they somehow make sense. 

and 

make no sense at all. 

Portrait of a girl.

To tell a story in two pictures is always a goal.

{recent portrait session}

{4x5 camera}

Friends.

I have been making a conscious effort to photograph the people that inspire me, buy me drinks and are pretty great people. 

Compiled from the street.

I love finding the empty quiet parts of the city I call home. 

//Leica M6 w/35mm lens//Kodak Tri-x. 

Endure

I find strength in words sometimes. 

LaSalle Mountains, UT

The West - In color

I shot very little color when in Utah. For me Utah is a pretty black and white place. 

These pictures made me re-think my past ideas about Utah. 

Darkroom Sunday's {Contact sheets}

I have been spending way too much time in the darkroom lately. And am finally getting things dialed in as far as being more efficient and wasting less. 

I am going to have to say that contact prints are probably my favorite things about the darkroom. I spent the other night on my recliner going through about 20 contact sheets and looking at which frames are "worthy" of printing or even posting. 

The larger pictures above are 4x5 contact sheets {my flatbed for some reason scanned some out of focus} 

If anyone lives in the City of Chicago take a click HERE for the best little darkroom in the city. 

Canyon Lands National Park, Moab UT

Seems I have not posted anything here for a while. Which is hard to believe because I have a ton of stuff to get edited out.
I recently spent a very long time out west for one of the best most deserved trips I have ever taken. It started out with four long, perfect days in Moab Utah. I spent two days in the Northern end of Canyonlands National Park and two more days in the southern end. Alone.
All of these pictures were hand developed and scanned by myself. Been spending a couple days making prints from all this work and might be getting something together to sell some prints.

All pictures were shot with my Fuji GF670 I shot a lot in 6x7 and 6x6.
The last picture is shot with a Leica M6, I think the last frame skipped the roller and got double exposed which made for a pretty much once in a lifetime image.
Kodak Tri-x and Ilford PANF 50.