Apparently my last post has suddenly been erased so I'll do a quick rundown of what it was about because I'm far too lazy to type it out again. 2 good movies on photographers: Helmut by June is a documentary on Helmut Newton shot by his wife June using a camcorder she gave Helmut as a present and he didn't want. The most interesting part was seeing how simple the gear he uses is. Surprisingly funny. NEXT.

Life Through A Lens is a documentary on Annie Leibovitz (obviously) and is an extremely in-depth look at her life. The most interesting part of this film for me was seeing how insanely large the productions are for each of her shoots. The film goes a little far with praise from movie stars, but is overall very, very good. DONE.

If for whatever reason you can see both posts, please let me know.

Feb 8th/09 Courtenay and David

I went out to my friend Tom's on Sunday to shoot a "creative" for my portfolio. It was potentially a nightmare scenario: no make-up, no hair, no stylist, no SHOES. These are some photos from it, completely unedited. You might notice there aren't many shots including feet....
Shot on Fujicolour Pro 160 on a Contax G2 with a 28mm/2.8 and a reflector.

Boogie

A few books came in for me yesterday by a photographer named Boogie. From what I remember reading, he was born in Serbia and later moved to Brooklyn, which is where two of these books were shot. They are all b&w and really, really grimey, especially "It's All Good," where there are numerous shots of people shooting up, smoking crack, or holding guns. Don't ask me why I have a morbid curiousity with this stuff, I think I just need to see real pictures of it so the next time so the next time I'm at a bar and someone says "Hey Jan, wanna go smoke a rock of crack and shoot up some hey-ron?" I'll know better and respond "No thanks, I'll stick to my Vodka Slimes and Jagerbombzzzz." But seriously he's got two other books (they haven't come in yet for me) , go buy them. They're shaped similar to the old Garfield books, which makes them a bitch to fit properly in a bookshelf, but completely worth it.
http://www.artcoup.com/

Todos Santos 08/09

There were wild cattle and horses everywhere, and nowhere to run. This bull was far more uninterested in us then the pack of horses running at us down a one lane dirt road. The weirdest part was they actually stopped, moved off the road, waited for us to pass, then continued on. I would've just ran us over to be honest.

This is actually someone's yard, located right beside a couple broken down cars and a burnt out house, right in the middle of town.

Roof of burnt down house. Holding up well it seems.

Ice cream! Don't think I ever saw this place open, along with most of any other business within the town anytime in the afternoon. They take their siestas very seriously here, so if you want to eat at a local restaurant don't bother between the hours of 12pm to about 8pm.

This giant dandy had the brightest red pants I've ever seen, and was extremely tall.

Bust old house.

Police, also taking a siesta.

Traveling family of hippies outside the church. I didn't hate them as much as I hate regular hippies because they seemed extremely sincere about the whole thing.

Roof of the church. I always take shots like this, I don't know why. I like roofs.

I think this was the only fully Buddhist/Scientology temple in the entire town.

Johnny buying a hat he soon after started destroying so it didn't look new. We thought it might keep every third person from thinking we had any money and trying to sell us a bunch of Mexican themed garbage, but we completely forgot all three of us are blindingly white.

Future Professional Hat Salesman, or FPHS for short. And seriously, what is that guy in the back getting all contorted about?

I guess I should also note I shot all these on an Olympus Trip 35 with Iford XP2 400 film. I still can't believe the shots that thing takes considering it's more than likely over 20 years old, no autofocus and almost completely automatic. I'll probably keep it forever and considering it's all metal there's a good possibility that'll happen.