New Video

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Just finished editing this video I shot over Christmas in Miami. Talia is an endless source of inspiration for me and I'm so happy she welcomed the idea to make a little video at her studio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qd8Bxfg3a4

The song is Pink Martini "Je ne veux pas travailler"

Ramona

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Last week I got together with my good friend and travel writer Ramona to photograph her for a contributor photo in Budget Travel Magazine. It's always a good time when this one's around, we had coffee and shot at Cenote, one of my favorite places for coffee in Austin.

UFOs

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On our last night in LA we stayed at a hotel near the airport.  Our window overlooked part of the runway and I caught some slow shutter blurs of planes as they landed.

Super annoying to listen to all night, but beautiful to watch.

 

Going back to Cali

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Quick iphone photos taken from our weekend trip out to Los Angeles.

Bill and I spent a year after we graduated Brooks living in downtown LA. It was one of the hardest years I've ever had and at the end of it I couldn't wait to leave. We went back to LA this past weekend for work and stayed a few days longer. I was surprised at how much I had missed it and how nostalgic it made me feel (of course I don't think about the bad times now.) I wish we could've stayed longer, there were still so many places we wanted to go to. But we got to see our friends and hit up our favorite places: Melrose Flea Market, The Getty, In-N-Out, and Griffith Park. It was a great trip but i'm happy to be back in Austin.

A Look Back

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I spent this last weekend going through a bunch of my old negatives and prints from photo school. (I went HERE) This top photo is the first picture I EVER took of Bill. I dragged him out to the middle of this field – with a lot of dead branches apparently – with my 4x5 camera and took his portrait. We weren't really friends yet just acquaintances and all I remember is that we talked almost the whole time about hurricanes. (When we talked about it later that's all he remembers too) Looking back was fun but glad I never have to cut mattes ever again.