Late Night Steak Knives

I was alerted on Sunday at 11:51pm by an email notification on my phone.

-"The Eagle has landed by your garage door."

To my amusement, my 2nd place winnings of the Manglergram contest  had arrived.
Peep contest here:
http://pedleymangler.tumblr.com/post/32955728171/second-place-manglergram-winner-is


And what a beautiful bag it came in.

Let's take a look at what's inside.

As stated in the win - an 8 piece, sweet.

A signed poster of the Mangler himself. It's on the fridge now.

One brown bag.

One brown bag with unsheathed Coors tallboy.   Mangler approved.

Brown bag #2

Mangler stickers!

Mangler pins and candy assortments.

One plastic baggy.

Plastic baggy with 11.7 grams of cooking powder......errrr cocaine.   Probably from Pedley, I'll use with caution.

Sweet little bag.
We actually really needed some new steak knives.  Score.

Thanks Mangler!

2nd place??!
Bitch please,  - 1st place.

Dave Fuller.
America.


(If anyone comes by, pick up a sticker and a pin!)

This week's subject - Water!

Last week was smoke. Here's my water shoot.

Set up some lights.  Filled up some water.
Red background.  50mm lens. (Thanks Bob)

Weekday projects are stress relieving.
Music/band shoot tomorrow,  can't wait.
Cheers.

First 2 with Flash.

These 2 with continuous red bulb.

Looks like a little skull on top. :)

Levitation

Fun Sunday, had a beer, did Levitation shots with fellow photographer Kevin McCool.
First two were the actually levitation shots.
And then it just got silly.

Smoking

Had some fun with smoke and flashes at home on a Saturday.
Here's the post production shot and the original afterward.
If anyone's interested I would be happy to explain how I set this up.
Cheers.

I hate Winter

The cold isn't so bad, it's the getting off the train at 5:30pm every night and the sun is gone.
BOOOOOOOOO!
But light painting is always fun.
Here's a couple from the last week.  The first one was a definite rainy evening mess around.

ISO 125 - f/13 @ 30 seconds

ISO 125 - f/6.7 @ 117 seconds

 Here's the original image. No Photoshop or Lightroom.
See!  Everyone can be a photographer.

VLHS Episode 1 - 2. 2. 2012

You know that Thursday night.
The Thursday night you're sitting at home, you have dinner, watch some TV, and  then try and not think about sleeping one more night before that beautiful Friday sunrise greets you with 8 more equally gorgeous hours at the office.  And then..............
All you desperately crave is a beer.

Your then magically whisked away to Pomona, CA. (I drove an automobile)
at
Vince Lombardi High School -
a.k.a-
T-welf and G

This special night featured the always popular trapeze midget act.  Whilst fire breathing, of course.
But, I missed all that shit. Sucks.

But some bands played:
And I brought my camera for pictures and toooooooooooooooooooooootally forgot my memory card. (Yes photographers are humans.)
Thankfully, (Gracias!) Donna lent me hers as her camera was having technical difficulties. :(
That was Thursday night.
Now it's Tuesday night.
The End.

For the bands:

Always had Resignation Day by these guys.
Listened to it, that was about it.
But now, there's an experience and some faces to put to a record.  Hot damn!  I love live music.
Everyone can relate.....if not, check your pulse.
So in honor of Bob -
"The one good thing about music, is when it hits- you feel no pain."
Cheers

Banner Pilot
solos..

_Pussy Cow-
Ya dudes!  I liked!

and my dudes in
_French Exit_
Damnit guys!  Your set was so good I couldn't get near the stage.  Well played.  French Exit for the win!
Instead, I shot a video. Soon.

And sorry Dudes Night and Horror Squad.  Missed it.  Daddy drinks.

Mario's Employee Party

You got to give it up for those businesses that are so busy during the holidays that they have no time for a Christmas party.  Mario's Place does theirs every 3rd or 4th week of January.
This was my second time doing this private party.
And it was great times on a Sunday evening.

I met some new faces and got drunk with some old ones.  I love Christmas in January!  
Thanks Mario's Place.   A restaurant and bar I'm glad to spend money at.