The Space Between

Exploring negative space.

Curtain

rising and falling youth’s grit, vein’s pulse, chest’s caged ribs quiet – i’m still here

Bedroom Desert

Black, White, and All The Shades In Between

In high school, before digital, we shot black-and-white film. It was a meditative practice. Five years ago I took some photography classes and one of my instructors was an incredibly passionate and experienced photographer. No-nonsense, hard-core, bad-to-the-bone master printer, Jhanavi Lisa Barnes taught us the zone system and helped us understand highlights and shadows. How to accomplish these things in-camera […]

Published!

Food photography is a fun and leisurely activity for me, and is usually done with my smart phone. I was recently given the opportunity to submit some photos and write a post about my Filipino Chicken Tinola Recipe (Tinolang Manok). It’s now up and published on my good friend Caroline’s food blog, pickledplum.com. Here are a few photos from the shoot: Like what you see? Try the […]

Tangerine & Aqua

The Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle is a fun place to walk and peruse art, crafts, vintage goods, and wares. On a hot sunny day, sun blazing overhead, I was feeling experimental. Here, I had fun with exposure. I felt like shooting like how it felt – white hot. I think these would be fun as easy poster prints to hang […]

Aurora’s Undercarriage

Aye! This isn’t a naughty post. I was hypnotized by the fabric that’s been draped under the Aurora Bridge due to construction. It was catching a strong breeze, billowing and flapping. In post-processing, I got carried away with the sliders, but found these results graphically futuristic.

Day of Birth / Night Crawlers

Originally posted on hijacked amygdala:
Day of Birth 04:45 She had taken the day off work but forgot to turn off her usual alarm. All hopes of a lie-in were demolished. She was not ready to turn 29. “Let’s call the whole thing off.” 05:22 She wondered if the ravens knew that their continuous cawing…

Out of Ideas. Out of Focus.

Making art isn’t always some spiritually awaking experience with sparks flying out of your fingers and your eyes glowing with crazed inspiration. Sometimes you wake up and nothing comes. Some days you don’t feel like it. So you look for ideas. The following set was an impromptu experiment where I intentionally took photos out of focus (this is something I’ve seen done by […]

Rouge

I continue to play with the tone of lights in curves and edges, get lost in shadows and elements that are out of focus, and lavish in the spectrum of shade and saturation in one color. Here is one quick study of a plant I saw in a store window.