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Allison and her constant model.

2009-09-28T14:27:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-25T19:03:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-09-24T11:57:00.001-07:00

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.

2009-09-23T18:50:00.000-07:00

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?'"