Harry Mitchell interview on Too Much Chocolate

I got to interview Harry Mitchell for the rotating gallery section of Too Much Chocolate. He's a well-spoken guy, an amazing photographer, and he's 19. You know what you should do? Go read it here.

These are Harry's images:

new tree

Fairgrounds- Portland, OR

Scott

Scott- Portland, OR 2008

Has it come to this

33rd Ave NE and Sandy- Portland, OR. January 2008. Click to view LARGE.

A reference to The Streets.

This actually happened, I didn't set it up. I was worried the guy would leave if he knew what I was doing, so I set up my camera with my back facing him, pre-metered, swung it around, quick focus, waited for no traffic, popped in the holder, and shot it.

For Cindy, forever ago

A good friend from high school. We shot this my senior year, I'd just bought my hasselblad. I got the shot I had in mind, but was never able to get it tonally right, because her skin was too pale for the darkness of the grass (probably a 4 stop difference, no joke). This was before I knew anything about scrims, flags, lights, diffusion, etc. Just me and the camera. Still is really, now that I think about it.

I was rummaging through my hard drive and found this shot, and now, thanks to the miracles of photoshop, it can be saved. Working with this photo brought me back to the joyful innocence of high school. My life consisted of hanging out with friends, laying on the grass, picnic lunches, AP English, and photography.

Milwaukie Teriyaki- Portland, OR

I'd say it was a good week.

Two killer interviews this week on my 'other' site, too much chocolate.

There's a pretty inspiring and fascinating interview between Joel Meyerowitz and one of the TMC members, John Saponara; there's also a great interview with another a guy whose work I love, a guy that shoots for Nike and Oakley at the age of 22, Cole Barash. Check it out, and post some damn comments too.

The Legendary Banked Slalom project is up

The Mt. Baker project is up, check it out here. I know reading is not very 'in' these days, but for the love of god, read the intro.

Nich Hance + Keith Davis Young= killin' it.

But they don't have websites! Click on their names to see more work.

Nich Hance


Keith Davis Young

Film's at the lab

I'm back. Mt. Baker was killllller. I got all the shots I'd hoped for. If you aren't into snowboarding, you won't get the next couple sentences. My idea was to basically a look at the legends (past present and future) behind the legendary banked slalom- I took 4x5 b/w portraits of everyone from Natasza Zurek to David Carrier Porcheron, Maelle Ricker, Lucas Debari, Jake Blauvelt, Billy Anderson, Victoria Jealouse, Scotty Wittlake, Curtis Ciszek, Wille Yli Luoma, Tom Burt, and Temple Cummins, and did action shots & audio interviews to match, about each rider's history with the LBS and what they think the event symbolizes for snowboarding. I get the film back on Friday, and will turn it back onto my website asap.

Rob Haggart interview

I interviewed Rob Haggart on my other site, Too Much Chocolate. Click on 'interviews' and you'll be there.

Also, I'm heading off to Mt. Baker, WA for some shooting for the next 4-5 days, so you may or may not hear from me for a bit. It's gonna be a good time.

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Kinda sorta.

have you seen me

This photo has been circling around the internet and I thought I'd help out.