Haunted Corn Maze

October 10th, 2025

    Morgan, Tashana and I went to the Haunted Corn Maze on Sauvie Island. I had just gotten the Sirui 24mm T1.2 lens in the mail that afternoon, and wanted to test it out at night with its crazy low light potential. It’s insane what I could shoot at T1.2: 
 


Arch Cape  

October 2nd-5th, 2025

    Went to the coast to celebrate Andy’s birthday. I had my normal lens, but also the 300mm telephoto. 
 


Royal Roads

Mid September, 2025

    This is my first movie that isn’t a vlog. Wrote a quick shotlist, but never referenced it while actually shooting.  
 



Giant Rock & Joshua Tree

September 9th, 2025

    Morgan and I went out into the desert from SD to shoot a movie. Took some cool photos too. This is a mix of film and digi. Portra 160 on the Canon AE-1, 28mm f2.5 lens.  
 


Skateboarding Shots

August 27th, 2025

    I got pretty lucky this day. The night before this, I realized I could revamp my old Canon EOS-M by having it shoot high-contrast black and white photos. It shoots color fine, but now that I’m spoiled with the Fujifilm color science, the Canon colors don’t hit me in the same way. But the black and white works fine! And it’s sort of fun to have a dedicated black and white digital camera. 
    Josiah Portillo, Jeff Fadness, Ian Bloom, and Evan Brooks were all shredding. I cropped these to 4:5 for Instagram too.  
 

Shot with the 8mm Fisheye, stopped down to f16, at 6400 ISO. I wasn’t even looking at the framing, I was just shooting from the hip, hoping it would work. And it did!


Garden Harvest

August 5th, 2025

    Picking tomatoes, blackberries and green beans from the garden. Shot on the Canon AE-1 with Kodak Colorplus 200.  
 

    I also took some with my XH2s:



Muddy Fork Film Shots

July 19th, 2025

    Finally got the film shots back from this shoot. The RB67 with the fungus in the lens is giving such a dreamy and soft look, I’m loving it. First few are Kodak Gold:
 

Then I put in some Portra 400:


I also had Portra 400 in the Minolta 650si, with the 28-75mm f2.8 lens: 



I also have some shots using Ultramax 400 (which I’m realizing isn’t as great as I thought it was originally.)


And finally a fun shot of Morgan at the pool:




Muddy Fork Photoshoot

July 19th, 2025
 
    Morgan and I camped at Muddy Fork off Lolo Pass and took some fun photos. These are the digital shots from the XH2s. Film shots will be up once they’re developed and scanned.
 


New Tripod Tests

Early July, 2025

    I was graciously gifted a fluid-head tripod from my parents and brother. It is opening new doors for me when it comes to framing and camera motion. Below are a few tests as I begin to work with it. 
 


Birthday Dinner on the Sandy River

July 5th, 2025

    Morgan and I brought our camping stove to the Sandy and grilled up a delicious steak, with pearled couscous, a salad, and wine. We got a few shots on the RB67, and her Maxxum 7000. 
 


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