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This year hasn't been much of a photo year for me. I'm alright with that. I've been keeping busy with work, my bicycles, and little furry cute things.My zoo has been growing for years. Three years ago I adopted Ampersand the bunny from the Humane Society of Western PA. Last year I acquired a turtle that was in unpleasant condition. Got her all fixed up and now she's healthy and of proper turtle

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Went for a ride along the Allegheny with the camera the other night. I'd probably do that more often if my tripod didn't weigh as much as me. Brainstorming some sort of camera equiptment portaging system for Little Red.Here's little red:There's a few things I really dig about this shot. It's about a twenty (or thirty? a pro would take note, I suppose) second exposure. The aquamarine line that's

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This is it Photo assignment for the City Paper, product photography for Falkora Jewelry, food photography for Brillobox.The rest of those sets, and plenty of other new stuff on flickr HERE.Plenty more soon, I swear.

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A few days ago I decided to strap all my expensive gear to my body and take my camera to an ultra-dive. It was a messy risk, but I'm glad i took it. Belvederes was hosting a benefit for our friends Quentin and Uriah. These gentlemen are facing 5-20 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. They're presently seeking justice, which is costly, and the community has been doing what they can to

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I've been working so much, and very little has anything to do with what I think is important to me. So I don't have much to show for my work besides being healthy, well fed, and luxuriously sheltered. I took a vacation that is a crucial escape for me, which I was unable to do last year during my lapse of opulent not-caring. I spent a beautiful week at the familiar Lewis Lake in the Pocono

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I am pleased to announce yet another new photoset on flickr. My friend convinced me to bring along my camera to the drag show that we frequent, and I've spent today editing these glittering gems. The theme was Revenge of the 90's. The crowd was lively. The queens were fierce. It was crowded just about to maximum capacity at the Blue Moon that evening, so I wasn't able to move around for any

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The little magpie has been up to stuff, that's for sure. A lot of projects are slowly coming to fruition, and most of them involve photography. But first, a list of things that get in the way of my shooting (oh excuses, excuses);-training for a two-day, 150 mile bike ride for the MS Society-gardening-work-commissioned to paint a great big wall at a local music venue-reading E.O. Wilson's

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The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and people need new portraits! My friend and favorite local tattoo genius, Jason Angst finally commissioned me to photograph him for magazine publicity. I'm fairly certain he is going to make it big time famous in the world of art fans and inked-up weirdos, so I'm super jazzed he chose me to make his portraits. We shot our first batch of images a few

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Going back through all my deviantart photos is mad-boring work, but now and then I find some pretty funny stuff that sixteen year old me said mixed in with the shoddy images. Here's some now!"you can tell by the mortified look on the fireflie's face, it wasn't putting up much of a fight after a while. that's terror in those eyes there.""i would kill an endangered velvet chirping yak for a

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I'll be spending the next few millennium sorting through my deviantart account. I haven't posted anything on there in months, maybe over a year, and it's no longer a good representation of my work. So I'll be saving all the files to an external hard drive and deleting that account. Then I'm going to find the images I still like and putting them in a special blast from the past set on flickr. In

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When I learned from the New York Times that T-Pain is only 24, I realized that I haven't been trying very hard to get myself anywhere with my art. I've spent today replenishing my craigslist posts for freelance photography, working on my web presence as much as I can without spending mad money, manually fixing all my business cards with a sharpie, and planning new projects.I forgot a few weeks

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Took some new photos in the Terminal Building of Jayke. I've edited up to six versions of each photo, and you can have a look at them on flickr.Here's some now!

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At last! I'm finally getting back to what I love to do; sneaking into abandoned buildings and light painting. My friend Josh, who you may recall from the family portrait shoot with Mel and Lydia, took me to a school in Larimer that hasn't had students since the seventies. It was legitimately creepy but I stifled my thoughts of zombies to shoot a round of portraits of my fashion-forward model and

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Look what I saw!More soon.

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Last week I was taken on a surprise adventure to Phipps Conservatory and the National Aviary. I was preened by some flamingos, but the camera made them nervous so I couldn't get a good shot of them chest-bumping us. But here's some other things I got!I'd never been to the conservatory at night and I really liked it. The light was totally different so I finally got so see all the fantastic plants

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Two winters ago my friend Dan Vogel asked me to photograph myself so he could paint my portrait. His painting was beautiful and was recently sold to Tim Victim, the gentleman who administered my first professional tattoo. Sometime shortly after the completion of the painting, I was hired to photograph the painting (of the photograph of myself, haha) to use on bus stop billboards around the city.

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I finally unearthed some of my favorite portraits that I shot in 2007. I had just discovered light painting and was trying it out on my friend Leah. They're not all stellar shots. I didn't know how to frame her most of the time and I didn't know how to clean my camera sensor yet, but a few of these images I love love. So I've gone back and tried to spruce them up in RawShooter. Here's a few of my

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I think I'm going to like Lawrenceville. Yesterday, three blocks from home, there was an accordion dance party in an abandoned pool.You know it's good if Zombo is there. Here he is explaining to me how tall he will be when he grows up, using his friend (we'll call him Toothy McAwesome) as a visual aid.If I could be ten years old again right now, I would actively pursue the best-friendship of this

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I took some astoundingly mediocre photos yesterday walking the tracks by the Allegheny. Here they are!Then I picked some raspberries and went home to make a tasty lemoncello cocktail and forget about my dwindling creativity.I'll toss the rest of these on flickr sometime. Today I'm going to an outdoor accordion party. I reckon I'll have fun things to shoot there. Look forward to that, why don't

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A friend pointed something out to me that I hadn't noticed before. I went through all my old deviantart photos and he was quite right. I put boys in corners.I found quite a few more than this, but I think this is enough to make my point. What's my point? I don't know, probably that I'm a genius. Or I have some subconscious aversions to putting men in the center of my frame.

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I haven't been shooting at all lately because I've been busy relocating from Southside to Lawrenceville, but today I'm dedicating the whole day to wandering around my new part of town with my camera. Last night I got the Nikon out, cleaned the sensor, re-read the manual, and tooled around my dark apartment wishing I hadn't missed dusk. But I got a few shots before breakfast (oatmeal, soymilk, and

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Jason Bannister has made tiny lions.And a tiny man on a tiny camel.

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On a good day, Southside is so pretty.Even at night, if you know where not to go, it's lovely.Or if you have an escape plan.And you know the exit routes.And how to access them.Even so, its a part of town that will grow on you in the wrong way.Anyway, I'm ready to leave. The rest of this photo set will be available for yinz on flickr sometime later this week.

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I found a CD full of scans of photos that I shot with my Nikon N65 in 2005. I actually think they look quite nice as a group of images, so I'm tossing them on Flickr for yinz. I'm not going to edit them, I really like the way they look as originals.This one appears to have been shot whilst riding the top of a Jeep.In addition to that, there's images of life and death, men and beasts and lots of

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Since I started taking photos in 2003 I've made lots of mistakes. I had to learn the hard way to back up my files twice. So I've lost countless thousands of images that I can never look at again; piles and piles of photos that I won't be able to edit from their original image, like the one you see above. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me again some more. Fool me three times

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This isn't the first time I shot with Leah or Mallory. I'm mega happy to be their photographer again. Here's why!Two of my goofiest, loveliest models to work with, and now they're part of the Bridge City Bombshells. So I'll be shooting them some more, and the rest of their comrades.Go here now to see the rest!

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First, I must say, it's hard to shoot with a hand like this.A quick post to let you know that things have still been slow, but there will soon be new images to ogle. Today I'll be shooting some of the ladies from The Bridge City Bombshells; the new Pittsburgh burlesque troupe. So those should be fun.In bigger news, I'm finally taking on the project of reviewing the hundreds and hundreds of

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This past week I've been getting back to doing things other than just making coffee and playing with photos from old shoots. But before I tell you about it, here's a re-edited photo from an old shoot!I've been going back through this set of photos from last summer because the pup there, Dino, is no longer around and I'd like to try my hand at some printing. So I've been returning the photos to

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It's been slow going on the photo front since my Mechanimal shoot. Duquesne University bought that batch of photos and put a few on their website. Scroll about halfway down the page and you'll see it. Notice the photo credit they gave me, how exciting! Last week Stephen Douglas, a local metalworker, hired me to shoot a couple of his pieces to determine if he'd like me to shoot all his work. He

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For the last few months I've been in front of the camera way more than behind it. It's just not right. I totally understand why people don't like being photographed. I like to think that most of the people I photograph are comfortable with the shooting process but I sure do get nervous with someone looking down a lens at me. I've found mustaches and umbrellas both easy to hide behind.I have

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Now that I've got your attention, I can tell you what I've been up to since my post oh so long ago. I've had a few shoots and other art-related gigs in the last month. I shot Mariage Blanc again for their CD release of "Broken Record". Reviews for the album appeared in the Pittsburgh City Paper as well as the Post-Gazette alongside my photo of them. This is my first publication, so to speak, so

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I thought I'd start this post with my favorite photo from a shoot that I did for my friends Jason and Robin. Their son Elliot turned 2 so they asked me to capture the whole adorable event. Which I did. It was a sunny summers day and the yard was filled with jolly children, so it wasn't a challenge to get a multitude of good photos. Do have a look at them here. By the way, he's not a battered

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No photo jobs to work on today, so I got to just enjoy my camera. I took a handful of photos of my quail's eggs (and some chicken eggs for funsies) in the nice, soft light of my kitchen window. I love the quality of light that my apartment gets in the late afternoon.They all looked so lovely when I uploaded them that I decided to leave them completely unedited. I'll be posting them to flickr

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Good day to you, blog-shaped readers! Just thought I'd let you know what I've been up to. A few days ago Pittsburgh celebrated it's 250th anniversary so all the rich folk threw a fireworks party. I haven't had a chance to look at the photos yet, but if any turned out well, you have that to look forward to. Tomorrow I'll be shooting my co-worker's band Mariage Blancin the dead of night which means

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It's been another slightly productive day in the world of photography for the little magpie. I got my monetary compensation for the wedding shoot and was given the task of making all of the photos available for family and friends of the bride and groom. With a reasonable amount of free time, they could do this themselves by copying the disc I made for them or taking it to Ritz, but in my letter

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My latest shoot was both fun and easy and involved pizza at one point. Free food is a good perk and so is free pinball, for sure. So first I want to tell you about pinball heaven then I'll get on with the details of the shoot.Okay so this eccentric rich dude has a giant warehouse full of pinball machines from the birth of pinball to the shiny, glowing, pinball that we know and love today.

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Setting up a blog for myself so I can have a portfolio separate from Deviant Art. For now, here's where all my photos are from the last six years or so; http://parvipica.deviantart.com and that's probably where they'll stay unless I get this looking really nice. I've been getting an increasing amount of freelance photo work, so I've started looking into getting a bit more organized about

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