Antes de que nos vayamos. . .

One more pic from the Ranch a few weeks back. . .

Clearly our scanner is a piece 'o crap, but this ain't for the quality, folks...

... and lastly... There's been a lot of talk about what a blog should be used for, especially over at APE (Is it shameless narcissistic self promotion or actually a useful tool to help spread the word about everything under the sun?). When we sat in on an APA panel with Rob Haggart (and Zana Woods, among others), he was very insistent that a blog be used seriously and not as a light hearted toy.. that you can't just put any piece 'o crap up on the internet-- your post must have substance and mean something because "the whole world is going to see it." While I see where Rob is coming from, we sure as hell don't have any meaning to our posts other than to share work among friends. We don't sit around hoping that somebody sees Jasmine's latest Holga shot and wants to offer us the next big campaign. We do this to make fun of ourselves... and why not, our friends, too. C'mon! We couldn't possibly take ourselves that seriously. . . you should know that by now.

Here's Governor. This time upright...

The Ranch part Deux

Was back up at the Ranch again last weekend for another boys adventure. This time I left the digitron at home and rocked the Hassy instead. We chased multi thousand acre fires on ATV's, poked things with sticks, and played HORSE by throwing rocks at natural landmarks. It was a weekend where we could be whoever we wanted, and pretend that the outside world was non existent.

Here's Bret, day one. Straight scan. Oak tree shirt with oak tree background. Warm afternoon light.

Otra

Here's another shot from my trip awhile back to the Patagonia. I'm not super crazy about the composition... the tangenting bothers me, but the boat was so small, the only way to get the angle would have been from the other boat, which was filled with people, and they weren't going to let me on, and you get the point... phew! Regardless, here it is... proof I was "working."

Goucho Verdadero

Hace tiempo que escribimos, pero bueno...

aqui esta una foto que saque mientras un viaje al sur de Chile... a la tierra preciosa de la Patagonia. Es de un goucho verdadero, un hombre que realmente vive de la tierra, usandola como herramienta para sobrevivir...

The patagonia is so special, in fact, that I would go as far as saying it is the final frontier, the last plot of land to be touched by the paws of man. That is only because one could not live in Antarctica, of course...

Right now they are trying to scar this frontier with power lines and dams, carrying power to all the people in all the cities, just like you and me.

Que disfruteis...

I was going through one of my hard drives with a lot of old work in it and I came across these photos from the best class at Brooks.... Zone with Chris Broughton. I tried posting some digital photos from that trip that weren't showing up. Now that I think about it... it really doesn't make sense to post images shot with my 5D representing a black and white fine art film trip. Retarded, I know.