editing my face off.
Dean Owens by the Lake
My Scottish friend Dean Owens was over in the US for the Americana Days here in Nashville. I have loved Dean's music for a while now. He used one of my photographs for his amazing "Into The Sea" album cover.
If you haven't gotten this record, than you should. I took the cover photo in the Caribbean Sea on vacation with my wife Lisa.
So while Dean was at my house for the day I went out with my old Kodak camera and shot some pics of him on Old Hickory Lake. They turned out to be pretty wild. lots of cool light flares reflecting into the viewfinder from the water and high sun.
Nashville Fair Wrestling.
Outdoor wrestling at the Nashville Fair. Crescent moon in the sky. Too dark to shoot with the lens I had going but I think the silhouettes made them feel like giants. I spent my childhood renting and re-renting the Wrestling pay per view VHS tapes from the 80s and 90s.
Gravel Road.
I stayed up till 4am making a weird camera box out of a 60s Kodak so I could meet my friends at 5:30 AM to shoot the sunrise. A large portion of the night involved googling "what to do if I superglue my fingers together" while trying avoid also gluing my fingers to my keyboard. Here was my first shot of the day which helped me forget the sleepless night.
Sunrise.
I went with my friends Neilson and Jim looking for some foggy sunrise pics. I made an weird camera box out of string and old 60s kodak viewfinders. This one is styled after some drawings I saw in Shanghai, China in the old Shanghai Museum that were from hundreds to thousands of years ago. This was taken in Tennessee.