white salmon swimming under our feet

here is a giant metal salmon. i think it speaks to the sort of place valdez, alaska is. (a good place.)

all year long we wait for sun

a couple months back i helped a friend plant a field of sun flowers. they started blooming about a week ago. yesterday, i went out and took a few shots with some of the impossible project film. i'm still getting a handle on it, but i liked the look of a couple of them.

don't wanna miss out

i'm really into these portraits that i've just started shooting. but i only have nine more exposures of this sort of polaroid film, so i'm choosing my subjects carefully. this go around: the lovely talitha luisa.

it's ok to fly low

all of this exists within a three hour drive of where i live.

it's always just on the horizon

painted hills in eastern oregon, shot on 600 film with my sx-70. the photos don't do the colors justice.

another sad-eyed stare before you disappear

i heard it was a real good time

there's something about overexposing film in the summer that just feels right. not sure why exactly. it just seems to me that summers should be washed out. whatever it is, it's only amplified when you set a polaroid frame around it. i took these shots of the always-surreal oregon coast last weekend while my mom was in town. they were taken on 600 film with my sx-70. to me, they look like summer.

the haystack.


the beach houses the face the ocean.


my mom.

meanwhile, some friends of mine have written a song that has worked its way into my head and now sounds a lot like these pictures look. if that makes sense.


a real good time - basement babies

we had a real good time. we had fun.