Tule Elk Park artist in residence

Beyond excited to take be Tule Elk Park school's new artist in residence. Starting next Wednesday ill be working with students on projects designed to teach creative process, helping out with images for the school website, PR and social media efforts as well as a series of artist in residence images with the miniatures. Its a complete honor and a privilege.

Inspiration

Did a semi-planned ad hoc shoot in Petaluma CA this morning. A friend had asked if I was up for visiting a pumpkin patch so I pocketed some miniatures, made a few notes and "napkin sketches" and headed out. I have a fondness for pumpkins anyway and there are two pumpkin images in Curiouser and Curiouser already, so any successful shots today would be a good fit for now and leave potential for a short series of their own if it goes that direction.

The two key factors today were that I didn't know for sure what I would be getting into and without location lighting I'd be reliant on the weather and pushing camera settings to make things work. Luckily today I had an assistant to hold things, interfere with the crowd and generally just watch my things so I could focus.

Oddly, this time around, the main inspiration was a feedback loop from my own work. For me that's a good place to be, tapping a self referencing state of creative flow within a given project can drive it to interesting places. Inspiration as a general thing can come from almost any angle and often comes from a number of them all at once. With these images I'd been fixated on pumpkin related shots from a while back and loosely references travel photography I've been inundated with lately.

Microworlds at SFMOMA!

Dropped by SFMOMA today, actually was in the neighborhood, and got to see Microworlds happily on display in the gift shop. I know it's not like my work is in the gallery space but it was a thrill to experience. They were even nice enough to let me take a couple of quick photos of the book on display.

Humbled, flattered and beside myself just not know what to think about it but knowing that it feels great to have that kind of presence and recognition. I was also able to get the proper contacts to work out some sort of book signing. If it comes together I'll be posting about that as well. 

I'm now feeling guilty about not being more on the ball in giving the photography it's own blog already. Though there is a Facebook page in place now with a new website on it's way in the coming months as well as the announcement of new projects and even a few teaser images for one that I'm sure will be an immense amount of fun and a huge personal challenge for me. Fun, challenging, what's not to like? 

So, stay tuned for updates on a signing at the MOMA or another venue in the near future!