Travis #381
Something strange began to happen to me last weekend when I went up to visit my brother and his family in a city two hours north of where I live. My sister-in-law Pam sort of knew what I am doing, working on this project, and had read a couple of the postings. She found some of the images a bit shocking, especially the ones with “The Full Monty” exposed. [read more]
Published: March 1, 2011
Hellville Cowboys #100
This is part of a letter I wrote to Ang Lee when I discovered that he was making one of my favorite short stories Brokeback Mountian into a film about 200 miles north of where I lived. [read more]
Published: March 2, 2011
James #159
Someone recently posted the video Christina Aguilera--Hurt--Brokeback Mountain on one of the artist feed sites I was on. As I watched this video I was completely moved and drawn back into my connection to this incredible story. Many years ago I read this amazing short story from a collection of short stories in book called Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx. [read more]
Published: March 3, 2011
Self Portrait - bedroom, 2008
I am having a tormented night of tossing and turning as the reality of my life comes crashing into my dream. Today I was offered an extraordinary opportunity and I passed it up without a second thought and it has haunted me all day. [read more]
Published: March 4, 2011
Willow Back
I saw the best quote on Facebook this morning “LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE” Neale Donald Walsch. I guess that sums me up to a T. I am not sure I have ever really had a comfort zone, [read more]
Published: March 5, 2011
Ty #129
I went to a fundraiser last night for our local charity to raise money for our local community center. I connected with so many amazing people some I have known for years and many I am just meeting. [read more]
Published: March 6, 2011
Victor #117
I saw an image that was randomly up on the screen yesterday being previewed in one of my finder windows and I thought wow that is a very striking image. (today’s image) It was one I had worked with some time back, but it never quite came around for me at the time. [read more]
Published: March 7, 2011
Brain #178
In the fall of 2003 I planned a trip to NCY because The Metropolitan Museum was hosting a show I was particularly interested in seeing: a retrospective of the black and white portrait images of a photographer named Richard Avedon. [read more]
Published: March 8, 2011
Russell #128
I think I have reached a tipping point with my art and this project. I now have subjects to shoot every afternoon; it feels great to constantly be exploring new ideas. Several months ago when I started this project it felt like I could not find a single soul to work with and it had become a constant frustration of scheduling things and not have anyone show up. [read more]
Published: March 9, 2011
Russell #147
I think I have reached a tipping point with my art and this project. I now have subjects to shoot every afternoon; it feels great to constantly be exploring new ideas. Several months ago when I started this project it felt like I could not find a single soul to work with and it had become a constant frustration of scheduling things and not have anyone show up. [read more]
Published: March 9, 2011
Hard
Creating images is becoming an addiction!!!! I have been shooting a new subjects everyday all of this week and wow, it feels like a huge leap every single shoot. I have never had this kind of consistency in my images or work. [read more]
Published: March 10, 2011
Travis #519
A certain unshakable dread filled my mind this morning as I woke. Four years ago to this day I found a lump on my right inner thigh, which would later be diagnosed as Lymphoma. Fear, panic, dread filled the next several days as I underwent surgery to remove it, saw all kinds of doctors and testing, and eventually began Chemotherapy. [read more]
Published: March 11, 2011
Zach #401
I awoke in the middle of the night and made my way to the bathroom in the dark. As I stood at the toilet releasing myself, I felt a strange lump in my groin. It startled me because I hadn’t noticed it before. When I got back to bed I began to check it out. [read more]
Published: March 12, 2011
Jeremy #377
The next couple of days after discovering I had cancer were a blur, so much happening all at once. I was sore from the surgery and could barely get around the house so I was confined to being stuck inside and was confronted with mostly processing all the emotions in my head. [read more]
Published: March 13, 2011
Dean #134
Chemotherapy is designed in a series of treatments and is probably one of the most fascinating processes I have every experienced. I was injected with a series of drugs over a four hour period that were administered every three weeks over the course of four and half months. [read more]
Published: March 14, 2011
Jonathan #126
I finished the chemotherapy at the end of summer 2007 and began the long slow process of recovery. Something had changed inside of me; I had been physically, emotionally and mentally altered. [read more]
Published: March 15, 2011
John #373
Looking back over the past three and a half years since undergoing my crisis with cancer, I now realize how much it has actually impacted my life. My life is a constant forward gallop, forward with little time for reflection. I have never really been a person to look back, it always made me feel bad and there was much I wanted to leave buried somewhere in the past. [read more]
Published: March 16, 2011
Travis #326
It feels like spring is finally hitting Montana, all the huge piles of snow in the driveway are beginning to melt and I see spring plants beginning to nudge their winter weary noses out the earth. It feels like life has become a flurry of activity; I am now shooting on this project every day. [read more]
Published: March 17, 2011
Jeremy #134
Many years ago when I was first getting into photography I did a program called The Artist’s Way developed by a woman named Julia Cameron. I highly recommend it to anyone who is artistically inclined but may have doubt about following their passion. She did a series of workshops to finally develop a book outlining those workshops in a book published in 1992. [read more]
Published: March 18, 2011
Jared #138
I have worked in the same space since the beginning of photography. My friend Gilbert, who got me into photography in the beginning, owned this little shed on the lower corner of his property. It was actually a very cool space that he was using to store all the records for his various businesses. [read more]
Published: March 19, 2011
JR #180
Last night The University of Montana was holding it’s annual fundraiser event called Odyssey of the Stars, an event I attend every year where they honor a past alumni who has lead an accomplished life in the arts. [read more]
Published: March 20, 2011
Jeremy #744
This constant exploration of myself is beginning to wear on me a bit. First it takes a lot of time; I am really not a writer so the actual process of writing is very difficult for me. I am more of a person who just puts his thoughts out there and others help me to edit and make it coherent. [read more]
Published: March 21, 2011
Cetis #15
A new musical called
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT opened Sunday on Broadway. For those of you who don’t know of the legendary Pricilla: it began as an Australian Indy film in 1994 with a ridiculously long name of
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT. [
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Published: March 22, 2011
Travis #386
I began talking about my studio space the other day and wanted to follow up on a transformation I under went in deconstructing and reconstructing it a couple of years back. [
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Published: March 23, 2011
Chad #204
I have been working with a lot of different subjects lately. My technical expertise is becoming honed, but I feel that the images seem to be lacking a certain life within some of my subject’s faces or eyes. I have a kid that I have been working with lately who is just amazingly sexy. [
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Published: March 24, 2011
Chad #219
I have been working with a lot of different subjects lately. My technical expertise is becoming honed, but I feel that the images seem to be lacking a certain life within some of my subject’s faces or eyes. I have a kid that I have been working with lately who is just amazingly sexy. [
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Published: March 24, 2011
Shower of Love
So I had this really amazing plan to rebuild the studio, owned the property and the existing studio, but was not sure if I could actually afford to move forward with the project. I sent the plans to my cousin Ed, a building contractor, and he worked up what it would take and cost to create the dream. [
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Published: March 26, 2011
Caitlin #204
Today I have a subject coming into my studio to work at noon. He is someone that I have shot several times and his images have appeared several times this week on this project. He is a straight man that I somehow feel intimidated by, and thus have a barrier that I must overcome in order to reach out and prefect today images. [
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Published: March 27, 2011
Brandon #214
It seems we sometimes get into harmful and often hurtful relationships with others. Sometimes these relationships can change our perceptions of who we are, diffuse our focus, and often impair our potential for future accomplishments. I think as artists we need to really learn to protect ourselves from harmful outside influences that can potentially sabotage or ruin us. [
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Published: March 28, 2011
Jeremy #913
There seems to be some kind of glitch happening with this Blogger site and it has frozen the stats on this project so I no longer know what my audience is. It’s creating a bit of a frustration for me and makes me feel disconnected from you. [
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Published: March 29, 2011
Brain #183
People always ask me what kind of camera do you use? And my response always seems to be the same? “I really don’t know.” I tend to use the Canon products because I bought into it early when I started and once you begin to get the pieces you want it to remain interchangeable. [
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Published: March 30, 2011
Jeremy #619
Yesterday was a fantastic photo day. I have begun perfecting the saturated colored cloth series. Tuesday I photographed another kid in the same lighting set up I used with Travis on Monday. This kid really has a classic body type from the ancient roman era. [
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Published: March 31, 2011
