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10-8-09

Day 1154 of 365 4 lyf. For various reasons, it’s been a few weeks since I played poker. Apparently the layoff was good. Got back into it today and apparently I haven’t lost is. Won the game and came home $50 richer. Not a bad way to spend an evening. 365 days

6-8-09

Day 1032 of 365 Again. Is it poker day? No, that can’t be right. It’s Monday. Actually this was an elaborate set-up for a shoot with Sarah one of my most favoritest models in the whole wide world. Sarah is moving to Philadelphia this week, so we spent the entire evening together trying to do…

6-4-09

Day 1028 of 365 Again. You know in the old days a ton of people use to read my 365s. These days, the only time anyone really looks at my flickr stream is when I post pics of a hot chick. Well, no hot chick today, but dammit, this is something just as good and…

3-24-09

Day 956 of 365 Again. I’m more or less gotten over my feelings on the Watchmen movie, so Hollywood decided it was maybe time to crush my spirits. I hadn’t really been excited about the solo Wolverine movie coming out. He’s not really one of my favorite characters. But the previews show that he’s joined…

10-31-07

Day 446 of 365 More. Happy Halloween. I kind of thought that I would do something halloween for today’s picture, but I really wasn’t in the mood. Halloween for me isn’t til this Saturday when the party happens, and we didn’t even really have that many kids trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. So I think I’ll…

9-5-07

Day 390 of 365 More. Let the cards fall where they may… Won my poker game this evening. It’s been a while since that’s happened. In fact not only did I win, I pretty much had a dominating chip lead the entire time. Maybe my luck is turning. I have a second interview with one…

class with dave: 12×12

class with dave: 12x12

cwd143 – Square Foot. The entire content of your photo must be 12×12 inches (~30x30cm). What? I’m talking about the entire frame. So, first…your photo must be cropped square (non-square images will be removed from the pool). Second, if you enlarged the photo to 12×12, it would be a life-sized photo. Am I making any sense yet? Perhaps an exmaple. Let’s say your subject was an 8.5×11 inch sheet of paper (boring…don’t you dare do it) – that’s less than 12×12, so there would be some space around the piece of paper. Now let’s say your subject was a person. People are bigger than 12×12, so you might have a head and a shoulder. Or maybe a couple feet and ankles. Get it? Bottom line: if you blew it up to 12×12, it would be life-sized. Obviously, I don’t expect perfect precision on the whole 12×12 thing…but if it’s obviously 20×20 or 5×5, I’ll boot it from the pool. Get as close as you can to 12×12. The goal of this assignment is to alter the way you look at things. Footnote: Please, no photos of rulers.

a 365 reject of my Day 249 shot.

4-18-07

Day 250 of 365 days. I really only had one goal today. I wanted to go to an arcade and get a shot of me playing pinball. I love pinball. I used to have a Twilight Zone machine in my living room. Years ago, my car broke down and I had to sell it, because…

3-4-07

Day 205 of 365 days. Generally I don’t really like to repeat the same basic shot two days in a row (unless I plan ahead for a good reason, like with my day 182 and day 183 shots), but the dichotomy of today just made this too perfect. Yesterday I was in a room of…

2-11-07

Day 184 of 365 days. Now usually I don’t do this… I don’t generally like to be flickr referential in my 365 pics since ultimately I’m not really taking them for flickr but because I want to have a nice little coffee table book done after a year. But when I was posting last night…

2-8-07

Day 181 of 365 days. I originally actually had a different idea for today’s shot but I never got to it because I was busy thinking about my next photo project. Rather than just rush to finish my highly photoshop intensive idea and do a substandard job, I decided to take a picture detailing my…