Woodland Web

My eyes are like hunters, looking for the next prey to shoot. They caught this frame last night outside the campus pool. It had been raining all day so the tree was very reflective, and with the street light at the perfect place the reflections on the wet branches looked like a spiderweb of light.

One Packed Place

Nelson's Landing, a restaurant in Leonardville, KS, is owned by Green Bay Packer Jordy Nelson's parents. Needless to say in this small town Nelson's Landing was the place to be Sunday night for the Superbowl. The restaurant was filled with fans showing their support for the local celebrity.

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.