Category: Artifacts

From the kitchen.

(and it actually seems to be the very last shot I took all year…though the post processing was done in 2016…and then backdated to 2015! The magic of the internet!)

Had fun with the baby’s o-ball trying to capture gravity.

The OTP assignment this week was “Intersection”. As an architect I see intersecting lines everywhere I turn around so it was almost like shooting fish in the barrel. I’m thinking about making it a longer series, but I need to finish my 100 slices of “Imperfect Solids” first.

In honor of David Bowie, the assignment of the week was “Character”. I don’t have much of anything to say about the rock star, but the baby did have something to say about my eyewear.Movie Rings (2017)

And I had something to say about cheese….namely that if you gotta add stuff to your cheese, it can’t be very good.

I’ve been slowly going through the archives of OTP assignments so here’s one from OTP 93. My Town.

I think Las Vegas is seen as a tourist city, but really its a sunbelt suburbia with two dense entertainment districts. So to address the assignment I pulled off the side of the road on my morning commute and took this very straightforward shot with a little desert in the foreground, some casinos in the background and a whole lot of asphalt in the middle.

The thing is, there’s a lot of desert that development has hopped over in the mad expansion. So I turned around and shot this little micro-landscape.

And with the morning sun I tried to make the O’Reilly Autoparts seem somewhat dramatic.

And for the other part of my Las Vegas life, I’ve worked in Downtown my whole tenure here. So here’s a snapshot of a truly lousy park job by your’s truly while getting an espresso in the morning.

The OTP assignment for the last/first week of the year was resolution. I took the assignment in two directions. The first was just in terms of screen resolution.

But before the end of the week I also stumbled across a nice house remodel photo…which really is the resolution of 2016.

For the first full week of the year the assignment was renewal and I went with a fairly stereotypical symbol of renewal.

However, I am also quite fond of this composition that is dominated by white space.

Underneath at Exploration Park

Doing riding the bus and sitting at the laundromat meant that I had some time to take some after dark photos.