Allison and her constant model.

Allison Gill was one of the people who really got me into photography. My freshman year we used to go out in the middle of the night to take photos. I learned more about photoshop putting multiples of myself in photos with her than I ever did in class. It's weird to think that I rarely ever took a photo of a person before my shoots with her and now it is all I ever do.

Here are some of my favorite photos she's taken of Charis, her friend and constant model. I also threw in the "paved forest" photo, just because I love it.

Erica Fleming and her porch food.

Erica Fleming is an twitter/tumblr friend that I finally saw "in real life" at Denny's a few weeks ago. I had no idea she did photography until last week when I stumbled upon her flickr page and was blown away. She has some really good stuff on there. This is her series of food on a porch which reminded me of the one by Christy, who she says "may have been the person who inspired [her] to start taking pictures on [her] porch" And again, they were simply taken on film and processed at walgreens. Something I will be doing soon.

Cameron and his friends who make food.

Cameron Bunce is the most geeky, technical photographer I know. Sometimes I think he likes the process more than the result. Here are some shots he has taken over the last year of people cooking that I have grown to love.

"I take the most expensive snapshots of anyone I know. When it's dark, I love to use an old Canonet Rangefinder. It has a f/1.7 lens that lets me pretty much take handheld pictures anytime I want. Otherwise I use a big old TLR. I'm a sucker for old, dying technology, too. I don't even have a good digital camera. Instead I process my own color film, ride a three-speed bike and listen to the radio on a tube hi-fi set."

Christy and her porch food.

Christy Mullins is a friend of mine and my ex-editor, well ex a lot of things actually, but still a good friend. I have always admired her sense of aesthetics. And I love this series of food she ate over the course of months. "Stuff I ate last summer." They were simply taken on kodak 35mm film and developed at walgreen's one-hour photo.

"There's this little gulp of nervousness when I go to the Walgreens counter and pick up my pictures because I know that all the great little life moments I tried to capture on my film camera could have much more easily been done with digital, and I would have known right away if they didn't turn out. I know I don't understand the light meter as well as I could, so I usually have to prepare myself for disappointment with each trip to the pharmacy. But out of the 24 exposures there are at least five photos that I look at and say, 'did I do that?'"