The Animals of the Forest Have Spoken.

Yeah.

Turns out that they don’t want you coming to their house anymore.

My Money’s Worth.

I should say that I’ve gotten more than my share of good photographs out of these headphones. They’ve been on babies, people who listened to their music too loud, the occasional pretty girl, and even on the heads of small children. They’ve been in family portraits and serious attempts at photographic art. Yep, folks. These headphones have more than paid for themselves in the years since I bought them.

This time around, they were part of a series of family portraits I was working on — I needed something that was representative of each of the children. Her brother got to hold and XBox 360 controller. What sets this apart from my usual work is the overlay of notes and staffs (at least I think those lines are called staffs). In Photoshop world, that’s called a texture and I owe the fact that I’m learning how to use them to my buddy, Joe, who’s been posting pretty regularly to the Brainchild Collective blog. You should check it out.

This attempt is rough, to be sure, but I’m interested to see how I can add this to my small arsenal of digital tools.

Oh, and on a completely different note, for those of you paying attention, the English Premier League season starts up this weekend. Go Liverpool!

A Girl in the Forest.

I borrowed this cello a long time back and wanted to shoot something like this with it. I was inspired by this series on flickr by Alicia J. Rose. Of course, since the instrument was borrowed, I couldn’t get it all wet…

The model was a friend of a friend who had some time on her hands. I posted one of the digital images from the shoot a long time back, but wasn’t thrilled by them. Now that I’m looking at the film, I’m much happier.

I just need to figure out what a “standard” 6×6 scan looks like for me, ’cause these are all over the place.

In the Woods…

…if you’re quiet enough, and you look closely enough, sometimes you can see them: Woodland Accordion Sprites. (chuckle)

The Forest for the Trees.

Rachelle spent a Saturday morning with me down at the river.
I got more than a few that I like, but I figured I’d post this one.