While I was spending time alone waiting for Candace and the kids to move in with me I painted some robots. This one is super small.

This is how I've always thought of my favorite founding father.

Film is fun.

What more proof do you need? I mean, if a naked woman can use a twin lens reflex that shoots butterflies out of it then it's good enough for me.

Actually I'm just really glad to be getting my Yashica12 back from being repaired.

So I have this 5x7 camera that I bought on that auction site for $40. It even came with a lens and shutter. This shot of Alexander is using the original lens and was done in my studio in Utah. I kind of miss that studio...

Contact printed on Ilford MGRC warmtone paper

I have always been a fan of the effects of barrel lenses, especially the Petzval design. This is the first test shot I made with one of these lenses. I had to make a shutter box to house the Packard shutter. The shutter box fits in where the lensboard goes and the lens attatches to the front of the box.

This is also the first LF photo I've made in New Jersey.

When I pull that giant wooden camera out all the neighborhood kids just sort of flock around. I decided to put them to work and used them as models while I tested the Peztval lens.

My serious son.

My equally serious daughter.

More neighbor kids. This time it's three sisters. I have no idea how I managed to get them all in focus at the same time.

Really crappy exposure but captures the dynamic of these twins perfectly.

I always love starting a new sketchbook and this one is the beginning of my first New Jersey
sketchbook.



I don't really need to comment on each and every dumb sketch do I?



Trying out some new hair...



This was done on the exact day of my 10th wedding anniversary. That's right, I've been married for TEN YEARS!!!
Luckily it only seems like three :)



"The best hearts are those which are given away"



What sketchbook would be complete without BirdBaby? I really love that this innocent little thing creeps out so many people.




Oh, yeah. My sketchbooks contain nudity. Please get you parents permission to view my dirty pictures...



Scribbles provided by my two year old daughter Hadley.



The ink just works so much better for scanning don't you think?









Here is the end of tonights sketch post.

May Contain Traces of Robots...

At this point I was still living in Utah but looking for work and had been contacted by a recruiter in New Jersey.


Trying to decide if I wanted to move out of Utah...Not much of a choice really :)


I made this one in the airport after meeting with my future employer.


Feeling pretty good after accepting the offer.


Drawing on the train is a little funny because that thing bumps and shakes a lot. I found that using an ink pen was better because I could be fast and loose. This forced me to approach ideas in a different way. I like it.


I was in NJ for a whole month before Candace and the kids could come out. I missed them a lot.


There are geese EVERYWHERE out here. They're like locusts and they think they're better than us.



This was a train sketch that I did on a co workers birthday. I made a copy on the copy machine and gave it to him as a present. I think it kind of creeped him out a little bit. Heh-heh.


Ideas for photography...




This was the last page in the sketchbook. I've since started a new one and will post those next time and get up to date.

Post number one!
I have almost 30 minutes of train time each day. I listen to music as well as sketch or write in the sketchbook. I'm going to go back and try to include some of the earlier sketches since it will show how my mind moves around since I've been living in New Jersey and riding the train.

Wait. Back up a little bit...
I moved to New Jersey after living in Utah for something like 20 years. I lived in California for 10 years before that. This blog is basically to show my train sketches as well as some photography that I've done while living in the Garden State.

MenacingTourist.