Caroline

A few weeks back I did a shoot with a new Nashville friend of mine, Caroline. It was a chance for me to experiment with off camera lighting and gain some experience in the realm of fashion photography, both being something I’m relatively unfamiliar with. The shoot was a definite learning experience. Luckily Caroline was a pro the whole time, leaving less for me to worry about other than that darn strobe. The strobe ended up failing on me a lot (I think the battery wasn’t fully charged), so we did a bit of natural light photography as well. Here are some of my favorites from the shoot.

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Best of 2008

Paste’s list of the best albums of 2008 was… interesting… to say the least. I agreed with a lot, didn’t know a lot, but what irked me the most was She and Him getting best album of the year for “Volume 1″. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great album, and I love Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, but best album of the year? Not too sure about that one, Paste.

I’m not sure what I’d pick personally, but here’s the list of the top 10 albums I listened to in 2008, though not all were released this year. Thanks last.fm!

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows*
2. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
3. Sigur Rós - Takk…*
4. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal*
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
8. M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us*
9. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless*
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Honorable mentions (next 5) go to Lykke Li - Youth Novels, Unwed Sailor - Little Wars, The Most Serene Republic - Population*, Arcade Fire - Neon Bible*, and Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People*.

Wow, that’s 2008 for ya.

I’ve got photos from 2 shoots abrewin’. I’ll post them soon.

*Not released in 2008

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Change is coming…

I’m planning on some changes to both the site and blog, and they’re going to be pretty big. I’ll be doing a complete rebranding, my site will eventually be moving to a new domain, and I’m thinking I’ll be doing a complete redesign from scratch of the site and blog. I may keep the Clapham Media moniker for my design work, but I’m not positive. Just a heads up. It might take me a while to implement these changes since I’ve been really busy.

On a completely unrelated note, I now own an iPhone. It’s pretty much incredible.

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Ideas burning through my skull

I have an idea. I’ve been itching to do something really creative lately. At first, I was thinking of something isolated to photography. But now I’ve been considering implementing music somehow. I have some possible ideas for how a show would go and how to release an album, which I won’t specify in case anyone reading this feels like stealing those ideas (not that it’s entirely original to begin with). But I think my number one obstacle at this point is finding time. Part of me wants to try for Artist in Residence at the CMC and see if Warren and Tom would go for something like that. It would give me access to lots of amazing gear, plus a ton of time and an environment that would let me really focus on the work. But I may just have to try and find time here in Nashville.

Now I just need to think of what I want to communicate with such a piece.

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Portugal… Pt 2

Some more photos from Portugal.

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