And (hopefully) twice, unfortunately.

I have been in a photo contest for what feels like eternity on yobi.tv, it’s for a prize of $10,000 and a trip to NYC. I have now made it to the top three and the final two weeks thanks to the votes of wonderful folk such as yourself. One person gets eliminated per week, so one of the three will be knocked out Sunday night, then votes are reset for the next week (so I need a new vote after Sunday!).

So please, vote for my photograph by going to the following link: http://yobi.tv/yobipics/finalists/view/44

The photograph you are voting for is one I did in the Salt Flats in Utah last summer on my long Warped Tour road trip:

Keaton Andrew Salt Flats

An Horse are a wonderful Australian indie musical duo signed to mom+pop records who have toured with the likes of Tegan and Sara, Silversun Pickups, Death Cab for Cutie and Cage the Elephant. They were coming through town (town being Atlanta) and I managed to snag a quick little photo shoot with them. I mainly shot black and white film though, so you’re going to have to wait a little while for me to post more photos from this shoot. In the meantime, here’s a digital photo from the shoot. The rest will come in a later blog post, stay tuned!

An Horse

spotted in Iowa/Illinois/somewhere around there. Shot with Kodak Ektar 100

Jesus Corn

I needed a first post on this page. I decided I’d post a shot from a trip I made earlier this year, albeit after I ramble a little.

I will be using this blog for many things. I will talk about gear, I will talk about techniques (some, I’m not giving everything away!), how I do some things or thoughts and ideas about photography. I will occasionally talk about other photographers, things I am inspired by. I will sometimes talk about life and not even mention anything even distantly related to photography. I definitely plan on using this blog to post a lot of photos that are of a different style than what is typically in my portfolio.

Either way, you should use that “subscribe” link down on the bottom of the page and keep up to date with things I’m saying, because we all know how important my ramblings are

A month or two ago, I made a trip up to New England to do a few photo shoots. I did one in New Hampshire with a good group of guys in a band called Armor For The Broken, then I had to make the trek down to southern Massachusetts to shoot a band called The Miles Between. That trek involved me driving through Boston in the morning. I was doing what I often do when traveling, which is putting my 5D on aperture priority with my 24mm f2.8 lens and holding it at arms length while shooting some random shots. I came up upon the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge bridge and somehow was able to miraculously get two really good shots of it. I then managed to put a sneaky good lightroom edit on it that I liked, and I usually don’t like these weird edits, but I think it turned out good. If interested in buying this as a print or licensing usage, please get in touch with me. Anyway, here is that photo:

the Zakum Bridge in Boston