Site Clean up

After a business lunch on Tuesday, before my flight back from Los Angeles, I decided to clean up and re-focus my website.  I'm starting to see my work shift more seriously into the foodstuff I began solely as a laugh.  I've also seen a shift in the way I photograph people.  

An interior designer friend of mine, Justine, is going to be launching her website www.justinedawson.com soon, and I'm going to be taking her portrait for the site.  She's a really creative and rad chick and I look forward to making sure others will see that.

Oh, I was nominated for PDN's 30 2009.  I'm pretty stoked on this.  I read this issue every year so it's pretty rad to have my images at least in the ring.  Madddlove to Maren Levinson and Redeye out in Los Angeles.  They've been more than nice to a former cook with a camera.  I'm currently putting together my selection of photographs for submission.  Then we'll see..oh life.

xo

Back from Los Angeles

I've returned from my week of working with Mark Robert Halper.  I kept my eyes open and learned a lot, both good and bad.  I definitely took away a few good lessons on the world of photography.  For that, I thank him.

I found myself with a day off.  While LA was nice and warm, Denver is getting a bit chillychillychilly and I wanted something warm in my belly.  Mushroom risotto is a comfort food of mine.  It's super simple, it just takes time.  I'll have the recipe up on my website later on tonight....

cookforyourlovelies

L.A.

California's burning.....I can smell the fire...

Los Angeles

I've been in since Wednesday.   We've been pretty busy with two 14 hour days back to back.  I'll write more and post some images once i get back and get a chance to breathe.

pheasant

Recent Portrait

A production still of a recent portrait I made.  One mono-light through an umbrella.

cow

squash soup

new recipe on the website

www.ingalbraith.com

mmmmgood

myboys

Testing

out some new ideas for possible portraits...ran tests...and tests...and tests...

Today

I felt old.

October Recipe

now up.

i'm lazy and lame.

 

The Fog Rolled In

The weather has officially turned in Denver. This next week is suppose to be in the high fifties and low sixties with rain showers and fog. I can dig it. Daniel's Park is outside my back door. Its basically a place for coyotes and cows to hang out.

www.ingalbraith.com

is now proud to offer, one awesome recipe per month!.......NO STRINGS ATTACHED!

Redux

I made this photograph of David's assistant, Erik, photographing wind turbines outside of Kimball, NE on a past trip.  We'll be headed back up that way in a couple weeks.

Buddy Lee and Ariana

So I have spent some time with my new marrying friends, taking their photograph and talking about everything. They're two good people. I know I've said it before, but I have very much enjoyed meeting the both of them. Along with the photographs I've made, I've also built them a website to work in conjunction with the wedding invitations. By no means am I a web designer/graphic designer, but I tried my best. I guess it kind of looks like my site. But what do I know about web design, really?! In the end, my friends are happy, which makes me happy. I have two more images to make that will be added to the formal gallery. Our schedules have been in two different directions as of late, but I hope the three of us can get together soon. Anyways, here it is.

www.BuddyLeeandAriana.com

An Old Photograph

I took this image in either June or July '07.  It's of Mowich Lake, a small and fairly secluded mountain lake near the entrance to the Mt. Rainier National Park.  A few years ago my parents moved to a tiny town called Carbonado that sits in the shadow of the mountain.   They have a sick view of Rainier from their back deck and this beauty lake is right down the road.

Home

I spent the last six days back home in Seattle to a be a groomsman in the wedding of my best friend.  I met Derek when I was in eighth grade and Keeb, quite literally, the first day of school the following year.  These boys are my brothers.  It was oh so nice to be back for a bit and see these two.  

First

Fun day today.  I took my younger cousin Chris to the movies.  We saw Hancock.  Not much of a movie but it's definitely candy for the eyeballs.  Then we went back to David's for dinner and hangouts.  Anyways, after I got home I was going through my Lightroom album and came across a portrait I had taken of my dog Jack back in the Summer of '07.  I had rented a bedroom in someone's apartment that was above an optometrists office on a commercial side street back in New York.  A couple of months prior I had purchased my first Speedlight ever, after being a Strobist reader for a quite some time.  After thinking about it for a second, I realized that this was the first portrait that I had ever taken with my flash OFF of my camera, a SB-600 camera right and bounced into the wall with a white curtain.  I believe it was fired with that V2 Ebay trigger.  I don't think I begun to explore the CLS system at that point.  Up until that time, my whole life was spent shooting strictly with available light.  This journey into learning about strobes and lighting has been pretty rad.  I've become a better photographer because of it.  It's the capture beauty/make beauty thing about images that I've talked about before.  Anyways.