Today’s series comes from my beginning of my endeavor to piece together a portfolio of recent that we have done at the shop, the goal of which is to develop a new website (also an endeavor of mine) so we can hopefully drum up some work. Tough times in the industry, lots of people selling off work at super low prices that make it hard to compete. Here’s to hoping I can some part in keeping us around for a while longer.

The more I edit HTML content for either here or the Judson website, the more I find my self writing in the source code view. Just not trusting the WYSIWYG editors to actually work right. Sure its tedious, but so far way easier in the long run.

And I am now fully moved into my apartment. I’m really enjoying it so far. Great feeling being under your own steam, in terms of a living space. I find I have more free time, though maybe that’s a correlation between no more classes and not much work at the Shop. I also am feeling really bored of late. Just not a lot to do I guess. Hopefully that’ll change soon!

BTW, the 7D is definitely my last 1.6x/APS-C camera. Only reason I plan to keep it around is because of the newer technology, ie its ability to do amazing video and everything else except the sensor is pretty slick. Planning to sell my 5D and 1D Mark II and get a 1D Mark III. Probably going to miss the full-frame camera…

Peace,
- KS

Today’s title comes from the song “Gone Away” by Safetysuit from their album Life Left to Go. If your ever pissed about relationshippie things, this is the album for you!

I apologize for the water marks. I just recently re-discovered these from my ftp site. As I might have mentioned, I had a horrid hard drive debacle in late 2008 and I haven’t quite organizationally recovered. Well, now that I have some more free time (ha!) I am planning to go back through my drives and check out the situation. As such, I might actually be posting old stuff from time to time. Always a blast looking back. I hope I don’t repost anything. If so, what ever. Deal. Man, I’m hanging out with Robb too much! Also might be interesting to note that this was about two weeks after I got my 5D with the 24-105L. One or two of these might also have been with the Sigma 12-24mm lens I had for a few months. Wow, that feels like forever ago.

Architectural photography is one of my favorite forms of photography. Being that I work in the industry (BTW, for those that don’t get what I do, I make the drawings for projects like this so the guys in the shop know what to build. Ballin’), its always a blast seeing the talented work of the guys back in the shop. Its easy for me to draw crap up, but they really are the masters, turning those line drawings into a spectacular product. On top of that, there are architects and owners with their own visions for the project; plumbers and electricians and other trades have touched a project like this, all working together to come up with a result like this. Truly incredible when you think about it.

Anyway, I really hope to get out pretty soon to do more architectural photography for my company’s portfolio. This really was the last one I did. Sad, I know.

Peace
- KS

This post’s title comes from the song “Chandeliers” by Sleeping at Last from their recent album Storyboards.