Somewhere on the way to somewhere else

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Somewhere on the way to somewhere else

Taken with a pinhole camera.

Ten good things:
1. Taking the whole weekend off.
2. Unexpected invitations to a very yummy brunch with nice people.
3. A whole three days of glorious sunshine.
4. Finally buying my very own copy of “The Iron Giant”.
5. A mini road trip out of town with the help of a loner car from Ariane.
6. Watching osprey, ducks, and hummingbirds fly.
7. Seeing garter (or is it garder?) snakes in the wild for the first time in ages. (My sister had one as a pet when we were kids.)
8. The weather being warm enough to take out my parasol, wear flip flops, and eat popsicles.
9. Shopping with Mandy in unexpected places.
10. Shooting what I hope will turn out to be a kick ass roll of film.

Something to dance about

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LCC Dance Festival FINAL

Last week I was contacted through flickr by a design company in the UK. They were interested in using one of my self portraits on a promotional poster for a dance festival in Leicester. The best part about it was they were willing to pay for the usage. Too often people or companies initiating contact through flickr do so in a very unprofessional way, and want things for free, so I tend to ignore these sorts of things. I’m glad this time the situation has worked out so well, and I love the final version of the poster.

It amazes me to realize a photograph I spent about ten minutes setting up and shooting has paid off so well. I actually took it to cheer myself up at the time.

Photoduets

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I’m having a tiny show of my work at Cafe Duma on Broadway. The show opens next Saturday April 5th, from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. I decided to go with a selection of the diptych images I’ve been putting together over the last few years, and I’m very happy with the how it has all come together.

I’m looking forward to seeing them hanging on the walls of Cafe Duma. You should come see. 🙂

Bowen Island pinhole shots

Bowen island, Miller's landing
Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing

Ghost on the rocks
Ghost on the rocks. Bowen Island, Miller’s Landing.

I am really happy with the shots from my little cardboard pinhole camera, taken on Bowen Island over the weekend. I hadn’t used it in almost a year because I wasn’t really sure if I liked the thing, until now that is. I will keep shooting landscape photos for now, and perhaps more portraits as well.

Kirsti has a few of the light painting photos of me up on flickr. I really love this one.

Fruits of a creative weekend

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These are collages one and two in my moleskin sketchbook, from my arty weekend on Bowen. I collaged, photographed with a pinhole camera, light painted with my digital camera, modeled, wrote long entries in my journal and ideas notebook, and did one small digital rough for the bird series (which may never see the light of day…)

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Buschlen Mowatt gallery on Georgia Street has an excellent show of work by Cecilia Z. Miguez. I saw it a few weeks ago and have been meaning to blog about it. She casts figures in bronze, then remixes them with found objects to create wonderfully whimsical characters. A larger variety of images of her work can be found here. I need to see this show again before it ends.

Gathering

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Gathering

The other day I made a fresh batch of small metal prints, and as of this morning I have listed eight of these for sale on etsy. My shop can be found at rashe.etsy.com, and I have photo prints available there in addition to the metal prints. If you’ve always wanted one, now is the time to buy because I have used up all of my supplies for now.

Three of the shops I have recently made purchases from on etsy, and recommend:
Blockpartypress
Photoglassworks
Hollyhawk