The Manatee Has Become the Minto

My photography over the past year has been productive, but by the same token, I am not sure that I have invested myself into it enough or managed to create something that is as satisfying to my emotions and ideals as it is to my taste for the technical aspect of it. Part of why I even started picking photography back up was to help figure that first part out (emotions/ideals). I need to buckle down and really think about what I want to say. I would prefer to not pay tuition to make someone encourage me to do it.

On a somewhat related note, I have my first real, official, I-dont-know-these-people wedding to shoot in a couple of weeks. I certainly cannot wait to have some monetary validation.

So, this blog that I have. While I would hope anyone who drops by cares about what I say, it would please me much more greatly to have the reason for your reoccurrence to this page be for my photography than my overly wordy...words. Without further ado(doo), I will keep typing, prolonging, overhyping aaaaaand...



Hope you like it. My dad, who does a bang up job making color look delightfully dreary, accomplishes the exact opposite by making black and white look so cheerful.

It's Just Like Diamonds...

Still jobless. I did, however, get some film back today. Also, I'll be developing 3 rolls myself in the coming week. So, I have still been productive. Read a bunch of comics and watched a few movies. Wanted (the comic) is just flatout awesome which is much more than I can say for the movie trailer. I mean, I could see someone not having read the comic think it looked kind of cool, but in relation to the comic itself, it looks tame. The Alan Moore run on Supreme is another fantastic read. It is a shame that it didn't get to officially end story-wise.

I saw Funny Games this past weekend. It was so disturbingly, terrifyingly brilliant. I wish the guy who made that movie was making Wanted. I won't say that it was the most disturbing movie I have ever seen, but it is still uncomfortably wrong for a mainstream audience. Some other movies that were a pleasure to see - Thank You For Smoking, Hi Mom!, The Ten, Hot Rod, Deer Hunter (so depressing), The Mission (incredible music), The King of Kong (watch it now!), The Shape of Things (still conflicted on that one), and Living In Oblivion.

I got a frickin' lot to catch up on the photographs: