this photo is from the "circus" themed shoot i did with alex and kathleen a few months ago. for some reason i get a sad, slightly holiday inspired feeling from this photo and it is perfect for summing up what this day has become.

Partners.

Miles is the genius behind these photos. He took them, he developed the negatives, and he erased the dust and grit in photoshop. These photos were taken while I was working on the "Circus" themed photos of Kathleen and Alex. If you click on them they will get large and you can see how beautiful they turned out. I am really impressed by the range of color and depth you can find in them, its quite amazing.
These photos were taken with a borrowed medium format camera, and I think the one of me is both creepy and sad. I kind of look like a tough mom or something.
You can look at more of Miles' photos here .

blues.

This photo of Kathleen was too dark to use. It was too dark and when I messed with it in photoshop all i could do was lighten it to see the actual image. Before I lightened it there was nothing there, just a shadow of a girl sitting in a chair with a mask on. I like the way it looks, it doesn't look professional, it doesn't look clean. It looks amateur and gritty. I think that's what I am, I do not have skills, I do not have knowledge, I just have my eyes to tell me what looks new and what looks good. I think Kathleen is a good model, don't you?

Circus Circus

What happens when our faces come off? What if we are gorilla boys and fire eaters and catapault heroes? What if we awoke each morning in a colorful tent covered in firecrackers and musk? What if we went to work taming tigers and decorating ostritch feathers? We carry on our business as waitors, clerks, commuters, and tellers, but when we get home we step through doors and crawl under beds to become who we are; in our imaginations, in our dreams, in our nightmares.

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