Rub a dub dub

Sooo... In light of some recent happenings (or non-happenings) in my life, I have become more adamant about doing my own personal photo work. Many know my dislike of staged photos and how I've attempted to avoid them, so part of my new leaf has involved staging some stuff, or at the very least, creating photographic opportunities rather than hunting them out.

So I'm starting out really basic. Girls in showers. How can you not love that?

Special thanks to Crystal for helping me launch this. I probably would have never gotten on the ball if it hadn't been for you :)

I love this girl. Xoxo.

Happy 2010

I'm not going to say I'm resolving to post everyday, because I know its never going to happen.

Just recently got back from the most picturesque Coron, in the south of the Philippines. I hadn't brought my camera, but my cousin was kind enough to lend me his so I wasn't crippled by a point and shoot while we were there.

Some shots.



Cheska in a hammock.



Tiffany on the docks.



The moon over Kubo, our house/island paradise.



Our boats.

I love night shots.

Oh... Italy?

I was in Italy for a week this past June. You'd think I would have been more ecstatic about that, huh?

Some night shots from Florence. La Piazza della Repubblica.

And, my beautiful little cousin, Martina.

It rained the whole time we were in Florence.

Oh Boston

I know - I'm terrible at updating this.

I've done a couple freelance gigs recently, and even less of my own stuff, but I had the opportunity to be stuck in Downtown Boston a few nights ago. I love night photography, and it was my first time playing with the dancing fountains.









More to come soon!

I mean, hopefully...

Christmas Bubbles

Lots of photos from last night. Just a little sneak peek.

Plastic bubbles are a favorite toy here in the Philippines. You take some plastic goop, stick it onto the end of a short thin straw and you have some insta-fun!

Also have been playing with PhotoShop. Can you tell? ;)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Honk

Honk 2008, about 2 weeks ago.

Mask me

Tidbits from Tufts Community Day 2008:

a photo a day ... take 45

Let's see how well I will keep up with it this time.

The Dunbar-Hester-Fried wedding from this August. Congratulations again to Anna and Pete.

Zombie-esque

Well, it is the time if year when specters rise from the dead, right?

Things, obviously have been crazy. Since my last post, I have ended my tenure at Mark's studio, always with the hopes of more assisting and good times down the road, and started up with Portrait Simple (thank you very much Jessie!) And life got crazy and fun and good. I have also been shooting weddings and events, and ever hunting down my street performances.

And with all this going on, this is the only photograph I'm going to leave you with for now:

A diner from a traipsing trip to Salem as of late.

Happy Fall and more photos to come soon :)

Chaotic

Chaos. Not quite like this, but it feels pretty close.

In the past 2 weeks, things at Ostow studio have gone crazy - we were gone on overnight shoots at Austin Riggs and Kent Private school which took almost 2 weeks worth of my time, including a Whole Foods shoot and my own shooting for Tufts closing events in the middle of that. Things have been nuts and this is pretty much my first break in two weeks, immediately followed by another 2 weeks of pretty much no days off.

Life has exploded, duckies!!

I've also managed to get some holga developed and scanned in there somewhere - who knew!

I had to throw a little vanity in there.

In the non-photo world, I saw the 4th Indy last night, which was surprisingly good and consistant with the classics - once you got over the fact that Harrison Ford looks like he may have a heart attack at any moment on set. I loved it for 2 simple facts:

1) Shia LeBeouf actually turns to Indy after a fight scene and says, "You fight pretty good for an old man. What are you, like, 80?" I died laughing. Half the theater turned to look at me.

2) It basically enacted one of my biggest tangible fears ever. SPOILER!! Huge car chase in the Amazon and what happens? They land in a field of massive ant hills with masses and masses of huge army ants that subsequently swarm over people, trees, etc. in mile square sheets and devour everything, dragging people down into their ant holes for further edible goodness. Worst fear ever. I almost died. It was fantastic.

All for now, kiddies. Watch for ohkarina.com to be launched in the next couple weeks (I hope!)