Friday, January 30, 2009
Allie's Photo Shoot
Well, I finally got around to cranking out some of the photos from my Christmas break photo shoots, and the following images are the last from those couple of weeks. Lesson learned: don't book a bunch of shoots when all you really want is to casually play with different creative ideas, and make sure you have said creative ideas in place ahead of time, so that the model is working for you, and not the other way around (when you're doing free shoots).
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Check out the Size of that soft box!
It's HUGE! If you watch the following video, you might notice the monster light source above the band while they're doing they're thing in the hanger. If you watch the countdown timer in the lower right corner, it shows said soft box at 2:20.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I FINALLY finished Becky's Photos, and I sold my Norman setup!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
I placed in a photo contest!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Course Change - January 20th, 2009
Today is a big day for me - arguably one of the biggest days in my life as an adult. I've been living a collegiate life of indecision for almost the entirety of the past two years - and today proves that statement. Today I withdrew from Calculus for the last time. I have done it twice before, but on this foggy day in January, I have decided to shoot the suffering dog dead. Physics and English will remain for this quarter, but I will not be continuing calculus or physics in quarters to come. With my decision to take off Spring quarter each year to allow for work in Alaska, I came to the realization that completion of my B.S. (Bachelor's of Science, Mechanical Engineering) degree at the University of Washington would happen no earlier than 2014, and even then the course load would have been tremendous.
To those who continue to do tabular integration, linear approximations, differential equations, and countless other rigorous pieces of calculus in my absence - I salute you. Perhaps someday I will again tread in the land of Newton, Leibniz, and Riemann - but my focus has changed and soon calculus will be a softly-defocused object in the background of my life.
Now, while it was neither a quickly or easily made decision, this change is absolutely going to open up my life to options that I haven't been able to truly consider for the past two years. During my time here at on N 102nd Street, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I'd like to do when I get out of school - where to travel, what skills I'd like to gain, and the countless hobbies and sports to immerse myself in.
The list is such:
Speaking of new living spaces: I've talked to my dad about paying the moorage costs on Augusta (the family sailboat that I grew up on for 12 years) and living aboard her at the Shilshole marina beginning this fall. The main idea is that I get myself out the the house I'm in: I love my roommates to death, but I need to kick my own butt into gear, and into a direction that is less comfortable and easy. This move will force me to finish my truck - the plague of my youth - and prepare me for living on my own boat in the future. I've been searching for, studying, comparing, and even kicking the tires on a few boats over the past 2 years, and I'm almost in a position to comfortably purchase my first floating home. So as of now I'm planning on liquidating a number of my belongings by mid-April, then storing the rest until I move aboard Augusta in the Fall.
Travel plans: Spring break could possibly be a time for me to fly down to California to visit my Mom, see some friends, look at some boats, and tour a school (Brooks Institute). Also, at the end of the Alaska season Aimee and I have been planning on taking a couple weeks to plop ourselves down in Maui and do some swimming, hiking, and lazily wandering beaches. Beyond that, who knows! I've got a lot on the plate right now, and only providence knows what will happen.
Lastly, I'd like to be more social. I feel that I've been spending less time with friends than is right, and I aim to change that. Sailing, hiking, fun photo shoots, skiing, and sipping wine/slamming shots is definitely in order.
I wish I had some amazing quote to end this whole epiphany/plan of mine with, but a simple "Cheers" will have to do. I have said before, and I will say again: One lifetime is not long enough to experience all the wonders that this incredible world has to offer.
Cheers,
Danny
To those who continue to do tabular integration, linear approximations, differential equations, and countless other rigorous pieces of calculus in my absence - I salute you. Perhaps someday I will again tread in the land of Newton, Leibniz, and Riemann - but my focus has changed and soon calculus will be a softly-defocused object in the background of my life.
Now, while it was neither a quickly or easily made decision, this change is absolutely going to open up my life to options that I haven't been able to truly consider for the past two years. During my time here at on N 102nd Street, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I'd like to do when I get out of school - where to travel, what skills I'd like to gain, and the countless hobbies and sports to immerse myself in.
The list is such:
- Take a bar tending class at Flairbourne's School of Bartending
- Upgrade my Captains License to a 200/500Ton Inland Master
- Take Basic Safety Training (for fun, and to add to my Captains license)
- Finish my truck, and sell
- Purchase a sailboat to live on - (Mid-60's Islander 32's are pushing my buttons right now)
- Equip said sailboat for extended cruising around the globe
- Further develop my ability in the realm of photography: currently: image processing and compositing.
- Road-trip. A long one. 4Runner, kayak, friends, my lady, photo gear, climbing shoes, and sunglasses included.
- Take the 10 credit EMT course, and start working as one!
- Work in the Fall/Winter: as a bartender, as a tig welder, as a photographer, as a sailmaker and rigger, as a transmission technician, and as a bike mechanic. Not all at once, of course.
Speaking of new living spaces: I've talked to my dad about paying the moorage costs on Augusta (the family sailboat that I grew up on for 12 years) and living aboard her at the Shilshole marina beginning this fall. The main idea is that I get myself out the the house I'm in: I love my roommates to death, but I need to kick my own butt into gear, and into a direction that is less comfortable and easy. This move will force me to finish my truck - the plague of my youth - and prepare me for living on my own boat in the future. I've been searching for, studying, comparing, and even kicking the tires on a few boats over the past 2 years, and I'm almost in a position to comfortably purchase my first floating home. So as of now I'm planning on liquidating a number of my belongings by mid-April, then storing the rest until I move aboard Augusta in the Fall.
Travel plans: Spring break could possibly be a time for me to fly down to California to visit my Mom, see some friends, look at some boats, and tour a school (Brooks Institute). Also, at the end of the Alaska season Aimee and I have been planning on taking a couple weeks to plop ourselves down in Maui and do some swimming, hiking, and lazily wandering beaches. Beyond that, who knows! I've got a lot on the plate right now, and only providence knows what will happen.
Lastly, I'd like to be more social. I feel that I've been spending less time with friends than is right, and I aim to change that. Sailing, hiking, fun photo shoots, skiing, and sipping wine/slamming shots is definitely in order.
I wish I had some amazing quote to end this whole epiphany/plan of mine with, but a simple "Cheers" will have to do. I have said before, and I will say again: One lifetime is not long enough to experience all the wonders that this incredible world has to offer.
Cheers,
Danny
Monday, January 19, 2009
Here is my first legitimate post, and I like the fact that the spell check feature is on this site (otherwise I wood halve spelled lots of stuff in correctly). : ) The image on the bottom, with me next to the bricks, is a crap test-shot - ignore it for composition. The pink hair shots were done after I had a can of Coke, and the classy-looking gentleman is a Craigslister who contacted me about a corporate headshot. The banyan shot is of me, when I was on the Hana side of Maui, and the shot with the flaming accordion was just for kicks. So there! : )
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