MidWinter Blues

On Thursday evening I was at the Akron Art Museum for their Midwinter Blues weekly event. This night Micah Kraus demonstrated screen printing and Lemon Quartet provided the tunes. It was a fun night and I saw a lot of friends. I decided to do something a little different and take photographs with my camera.

International Clash Day 2020

for International Clash Day

Cleveland by Bike

I started my day with a video shoot in the Key Tower, did some solo exploring, then joined up with Critical Mass to ride to Joy Machines Racing fundraiser at Mahall's.

Gold Sprints

On Friday afternoon I had a video shoot in the Key Tower on Public Square. After I stuck around and rode to a few destination before ending up at Mahall's 20 Lanes for a Joy Machines Racing fundraiser. There were raffles and beers but the main event was the Gold Sprints. Head to head races in a bracket-style on rollers which were hooked up to a computer and some kind of power or speed sensor to determine the winner. I had a blast hanging out and watching with some Akron & Cleveland friends - and some new friends I met that evening.

Old Roll

I really like this image of the Arc de Triomphe because it shows the scale of it that you don't notice in the wide shots down the Champs-Élysées. It is from a roll of Kodak Tri-X that I had forgotten was in my Minolta X-700. I just developed it the other day in HC-110 dilution b. It looks like I finished off the roll last srping in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park when photographing the Virginia Blue Bells as I do every year.

Winter in the Falls

Last week I went for a brief photowalk in Downtown Cuyahoga Falls. It was very cold and I didn't last as long as I wanted to and bailed on a few plans which I guess I'll save for later. But it was really cool in High Bridge Glens with the ice formations.  I'm glad I got out for a bit.  

Golden Hour Ride

Well, this has been a weird winter needless to say... last evening it was 50 degrees and sunny so I decided to go for a ride and take some photos. I brought my Canon 6D and 40mm pancake lens. I was mainly getting a few shots for my cycling IG - ZipperCityCycles - but it was so pretty out that I kind of wish I had brought the good gear. It was a perfect "golden hour" evening and I snapped a few images that I really like in the Summit Lake area.

Safe Words and More!

Friday night was a fun one. We started off in the Valley celebrating Brad's birthday at Sushi Katsu, met a few more friends for cocktails at the Spotted Owl and then headed up to the Matinee to see Safe Words & White Lighter.

Couple Studio Things

I had the studio set up to do some product photography and after I decided to shoot a couple images for the Instagram accounts. Above is a few of my favorite Kodak items that I've collected over the years. Which also reminded me that I would like to update my vintage camera page this winter - it has been a while. Below(or after the jump) is a vintage cyclocross frame a friend gave me. He bought the complete bike on eBay but it turned out the frame was bent. He gave it to me figuring I could use the vintage Italian and French components.

Another Cold Ride

Last night my cycling group took a mixed terrain route out to Hoppin' Frog Brewery. Some of the off road bits are supposed to eventually be a new bike trail through Akron. Its fun to ride them now - you are in the heart of the city then all of sudden in the woods. I just let the GoPro run on my handle bars the whole ride there and then edited this together. The hyper smooth that is so amazing during the day doesn't work that well at night - but it is still better than my old GoPro when it comes to the shakes.

RatzMas 2019

Every year my cycling group does our holiday RatzMas ride on the Wednesday nearest to Christmas. This year it was a full week out with the holiday falling on a Wednesday. It was only 19 degrees and I didn't capture any footage out on the trails(mostly because of the heavy doubled up gloves) but I did after our brewery stops when we rode in this old factory. I used this video to experiment with video transitions that I wouldn't use in my professional work...

Happy New Year

I hope that everyone had a awesome holiday season. I had a great time seeing so many friends and family members - even though it sometimes felt like it was hard to get work done. In my mind it feels like I did a weeks worth of work over four weeks. Anyways - I'm ready to get back to it in 2020 full speed ahead. I'm looking forward to working with some new clients and contacts and continuing projects with current and long term clients. I also have plans for some personal creative projects that I look forward to posting on this blog. 

At the start of the decade photography was still mostly just a hobby for me - I ended it owning my own studio - so on a professional level the last 10 years have been a complete success....

Year in Photos

Here it is - my annual 'Year in Photos' where I try to pick my two favorite photos from each month of the year. It gets harder every time - so man great travels, events, and shoots this year.
Click HERE to view it!

Christmas

A few photos from Christmas Morning and Deck the Hall at Stan Hywet.

Missile Toe 2019

Missile Toe at the Akron Art Museum has become a holiday tradition for me and my friends. As usual Jeff and the boys did not disappoint.

Cleveland Bazaar

A few of us went up to the Cleveland Bazaar Holiday! at 78th Street Studios on Sunday. For an Akronite's frame of reference it is basically like a big Crafty Mart. We had a fun time Christmas shopping and checking everything out and then headed over to Good Company for lunch after.

Viaduct Park

I had a shoot at a machine shop in Bedford on Tuesday and afterward I decided to get some lunch and explore a bit. I went to Viaduct Park to see the Great Falls of Tinker's Creek. It is a short but scenic walk. An 1865 train bridge, mill ruins, waterfall, big gorge, giant tunnels etc. After that I went and checked out downtown Bedford since I had never been there before. Cool little downtown.

Thanksgiving Weekend

My Thanksgiving started out as usual with our annual football game. Then it was over to Mom & Dad's for "dinner" and a relaxing day. On Black Friday my family went on its annual brewery crawl. I rode down to Quarter's Up in the Valley to catch some of the Ohio Sate game with friends and family on Saturday, Saturday evening was a chill fire at Erin's and today I am doing some chores and working on photos like these... Here are some images I captured on Thursday and Friday.