My unapologetic love of dead woodland forest creatures.

 

I love meat.  Beef.  Pork.  Chicken.  Fish. Don’t get me wrong I love veggies too, and I’ve even been known to consume some tofu every now and then.  But my true love is game meat.  Venison.  Elk.  Pheasant.  Duck. 

I’m a hunter.  I fish too, but I enjoy hunting more.  I love the personal connection to the food I put on the table, and I love that hunting is one more big middle finger raised to the establishment of factory farming and the industrial food complex.

Some look at hunting as barbaric, and ask how I can look at a beautiful creature, center it’s body in the crosshairs of my riflescope, and send a bullet into it’s body, killing it.  Well, as a consumer, everything I consume had to die in order to become food whether it be plant or animal.  That deer, elk, boar, duck or pheasant had a truly free and fulfilling life until the moment it became food, for which I am truly thankful.  That ribeye steak or pack of hamburger wrapped in plastic in the store was once a living breathing cow.  It spent it’s last days cramped together with thousands of other cows in a feedlot being forcefed corn, not part of it’s natural diet, before it was forced through a chute, bludgeoned to death, and tossed in a pile to be processed without a second thought.

I feel a bit more respect for the food I eat whether it come from an animal or from my garden because I had a hand in procuring it.

As I sit here tonight eating grilled chili-rubbed venison backstrap, I feel very much alive and inspired.

It’s not porn as long as the naughty bits are covered….

 

ya know, it just baffles me when I read the profiles of so-called “models” on sites like model mayhem, and see something along the lines of “I don’t shoot nudes or anything vulgar” or “no nudes – I’m a classy girl” and yet their portfolios are full of images of them with their ass in a thong bent over hovering above the lens, or wearing the bikini top equivalent of two postage stamps and some dental floss.

Just because you can’t see a nipple or your crotch is barely covered doesn’t make an image “classy.”  In the same context, just because a model is nude in an image doesn’t make it dirty.

Mollie – Eugene Oregon

Back in the groove

 

The day job has been taking it’s toll lately.  We’re supposed to be heading into the slow season, but haven’t seen it yet.  We’re  really short handed too, so it’s been a really long few weeks.

Things are starting to get back to normal, and I’m working on putting some posts together to have a few in the can, for those days when my brain and my body are both mush and I don’t have the energy to post. 

Shot a commercial assignment yesterday for an aviation company.  No nudity, not even any models.  Just a jet.  It was a fun gig and was cool to step outside the box and do something beyond my comfort zone.  Oddly enough, Jets don’t respond as well to verbal direction as models do.  We had good light though, and brought a considerable amount of our own.  No equipment problems.  No problems timing the exterior shots with the sunset, kept everything on schedule…  I’m learning to be able to take yes for an answer…

 

Jessica Robinson – Eugene Oregon 2009

Organization

 

I’m getting a bit antsy… 

The last days of predictably good weather are upon us here in Oregon, and there (as it happens every year) are still so many things that I wanted to accomplish this summer with my personal work.  So many short trips I wanted to take.  So many locations to explore.  So many woulda coulda shoulda’s… 

I decided recently to start keeping a better system of tracking shoots I want to do.  Just as I track shoots I’ve done with keywording and such in lightroom, I decided to throw together an excel spreadsheet of shoot ideas that cross my mind, that I can sort and re-sort to my hearts content by location, theme, etc.  I used to keep things jotted down in a little moleskine sketch book, but that’s obviously not really indexed and searchable.  Hopefully this is yet another way to keep increasing my productivity, and a step towards my goal of world domination.

 

Wolfpup – Portland Oregon

 

 

 

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Can anyone find me a pack of type 55?

 

Is there any left in existence?   I’ve been tweaking and fiddling with lightroom and photoshop to get close to the look and feel of several different analog/vintage processes, and it’s left me wanting to shoot some large format type 55 in the worst way.  If anyone can track some down in any reasonable condition and quantity for me I’ll be happy to thank them with a signed 16x20 print of their choice.

Seeing Red Again…

 

Mollie and hear nearly flawless skin.  Eugene Oregon

Color Harmonies

 

It’s been quite a while but I used to dabble in body painting.  I’ve always been fascinated with it and was really excited to try out an idea with Mollie this weekend.  We started off with oil on the skin and watered down the blue bodypaint so that it would bead up when sprayed on the body.  After shooting a few frames of that I really felt like it needed a contrasting color, so I added a little yellow splatter here and there.  Thanks to mollie for being my guinea pig for this adventure.