Seco, Ky.

In Seco, Ky. where my Mom's side of the family is from my Uncle Al lives on property that used to be a coal mine. It was reclaimed by my Great Grandfather Ted, a coal miner, who planted white pine trees all over the property around 60 years ago. In the late 90s the pine trees got the beetle blite and they were all dying standing up. He began cutting them down and making use of them. Recently he built a cabin by himself, on the foundation of an old coal building, out of the trees that my Great Grandfather planted.








unrelated shot of what must be the result of mountaintop removal.

Bowling Green, Ky.

Below are some photos of "The Pirate House" in Bowling Green. The Pirate House is no more. This house was a past frat house, that was scheduled to be demolished. Somehow my friend Micah arranged to live with others in it and only pay the utilities, until they demolished it, which they never did. It earned a reputation in Bowling Green for having raucus rock 'n roll house shows. At the last show there in Nov., Morning Teleportation was playing and the room got so crowded that in the middle of their first song the floor caved in. No one was hurt apparently. They used the wrecked room artistically, giving it a pirate theme, before leaving.

Recording at the Cabin

While I was visiting, my friends' band Noizejoi did some recording, out at a friend's cabin, for an ep that they are hoping to have ready by summer of this year.

Snaps on a Plane!

A Few Friends and a Time-Traveling Moose

So that moose was hiding in a mysterious undeveloped roll film I found the other day, from my trip to Alaska in 2006, yeesh.

Walk Walk Snap

I recently took a couple walks with my film cameras, a pentaxk1000 I've had for prolly a decade, and a canonet ql17 g3 that I recently got off ebay. The canonet is known as the poor man's Leica, it's the first rangefinder I've ever had, I haven't shot enough with it to really determine how I feel about it, only a couple of the photos below were taken with it.

On these walks I just gave myself the focus "whatever is visually interesting/appealling", nothing complicated, and then walked around downtown for hours. These images weren't scanned in, I don't have a film scanner at the moment. I used a little portable light table I have, and my 20d to get them on the computer, taking a photo of the frames, then inverting them, so the quality of the "scans" isn't great, but it's functional for sharing on the internet.

I developed the negatives myself, which was something I hadn't done in years. It is a bit of a pain to work with chemicals and definately no where near as efficient as the streamlined digital process of today. But the suspense of having to wait to see the actual images, the care necessary in order to properly use the 36 frames (which you paid for), and the finality of your decision when you snap the shutter, are useful limits which would probably help any digital photographer to remember exactly what they are doing as opposed to snapping the shutter and checking the back screen until you get it right. So, here are some photos