Texas Trip

Pretty tree.


Longhorns.


Pretty lights.


Long exposure + camera spin + Christmas lights.


Christmas lights out of focus.


Tree.


Technologic nature.


Maggie smiling!

SK8about

Before leaving K-State for break I went on a photo/skating adventure around campus. I love going on walkabouts for photos and it's a great way to relax after a busy semester. This shot is of a fired up outdoor kiln.


I had worked my way into a bush to get a detail shot of the branches when all of a sudden a big flock of birds flew up and landed in the bush.


This is a silhouette of a pair of seeds against a sun set.

Lunar Eclipse

I stayed up to watch the eclipse and got frames all throughout its phases and combined them. It was so much fun to shoot, especially because I'm a space geek.


This is a double exposure I did with my basketball goal on my D7000. I jumped like an excited child when I looked at this frame in camera.

Cat's last battle with the Buffaloes

Dapper Doodles 1

This is a comic I did just for fun a while ago and submitted to the paper as a backup and it ended up running last week. It's really only funny to K-State students, seriously enough squirrels already Manhattan.

The Man, The Legend, Rob Dyrdek

Rob Dyrdek came to Manhattan to promote the release of the new Windows 7 phone. I was so stoked to get to photograph him and the very beautiful Minka Kelly (Esquire's sexiest woman of the year 2010).












As soon as work self was done shooting fan self took over and got Rob to sign my helmet (luckily work self was looking out for fan self and tucked it into his bag before heading to the shoot).

Phonic Infection

This is an illustration I did for an article on the risks of using ear buds.

Playing Card Design

This is an idea I have been working on since we started our fotobroker site for the paper. I made the ambigram myself to ensure it would be a reversible design.

Order here!
http://photos.kstatecollegian.com/cgi-bin/fotobroker.cgi?c=pc2.htm&b=photo_db&UID=445

Midnight Marauder

Lisle (coworker and one of my besties) and I went for a midnight walkabout last night, this is what I turned out from it.


Lisle's dog just got spade, poor girl.














Lisle shooting.

One rad dude

I saw this man, Don Setser, retired K-State professor of chemistry, reading his paper with what appeared had his face on the cover. He was a very polite man and didn't mind me at all.

Sketch Crowe

This is my longboard that I painted. It too is based on Skottie Young's scarecrow but I decided to make my own variation of him. I really wanted a bunch of vibrant colors on my board. I brainstormed names with a few people and I decided to go with Sketch Crowe for its multiple meanings. Below is the assembled board with a flat clear coat and its first of what will be many scuffs.

Rex

This is my girlfriend's neighbor Rex. He lives in a garage and recycles lawn mowers for his only source of income. Rex makes around $6000 a year. He knows everything there is to know about his craft and even showed me the "Ferrari" of lawn mowers. He also has a large, beautiful garden he maintains. Rex (like most interesting subjects) is a talker. I spent about 2 hours talking with (listening to) him. He struck me as one of those insane genius types. He talked about anything from lawn mower mechanics to Egyptian lore. Crazy or not Rex was fun to listen to and made for great frames.

Scarecrow Inked REMOVED

This post used to contain a piece of digital art I made. It was a poor copy of the scarecrow from Skottie Young’s oz comics. I removed it because I realized that it was offensive. It was wrong of me to replicate his art, tag his name in it, and act like it was something special I did. I am a big fan of Skottie Young’s work and it made me a little sick to imagine he may have seen this image, if so, I’m sorry. I was naive at the time I posted it.

Oodles of doodles

This is my most recent drawing, and by far my favorite so far. It's the Scarecrow from Skottie Young's Wonderful Wizard of Oz comic books.

I'm not the most educated artist and sketching has only recently become a bigger hobby of mine, and it's all thanks to Skottie Young. I had the fortunate opportunity to meet him and Eric Shanower (writer of the Oz books) last October on a photo assignment. Wamego KS was having their annual Oztoberfest and had Skottie and Eric as guests for the festivities. Now having lived in Kansas my entire life I am kinda burnt out on the Wizard of Oz. It seems like the first thing anyone I meet from outside of Kansas does once they find out where I'm from is make some kind of Wizard of Oz reference. So naturally I already had little interest in working this assignment. When I found where I needed to be there were two guys sitting at a table chatting, various Oz books on a table at the side, and an elderly couple looking at the pictures on the wall. Thinking I was in the wrong place I found an employee working there and asked if I was in the right place. She informed me I was and assured me the two gentlemen at the table were who I was there for. In my head I'm thinking "There is nobody here to see these guys, they're obviously uninteresting." If I was going to be sent out of town for some lame shoot (ESPECIALLY AN OZ RELATED ONE!) I was not about to put much effort into my work, so I conceded to shooting quickly and leaving. Once I was about to bounce a couple showed up to see Skottie and Eric, so I figured "Ok, I'll shoot this a little longer because having at least a couple of other people in the my frames will be way better and I can still shoot quickly and roll out." Skottie ended up doing a sketch of the scarecrow for the guy and I was amazed. I was fascinated with how quickly he drew it and how cool it looked. After the couple left I spoke with Skottie and Eric for a little while and they signed a little flyer for me to bring back to my editor and I left. Once I was back in town I looked Skottie up because I was intrigued. Long story short, I was inspired and began doodling in my classes and at work. I wish I could redo my meeting with Skottie now that I know more about who he is. I collected a few of those scrap drawings and am including them below. The first group are all my versions of some of Skottie's drawings.

Dorothy from the Oz books.


Human Torch from fantastic four (cut off because it was drawn on a paper for work.)


Gambit from X-Men.


Tin Man from the Oz books.

The rest are random, most based on pictures I found online but a few of my own ideas.

Assassin's Creed 2.


Boy.


Captain America.


Girl.


Hood.


Spawn.


Wolverine.