Graffiti?

Back of the Restaurant

Flying Oatman

Barbie



Barbie Pinata



Phono

The Phongraphy show opening was last night. It was cool. A lot of great photos. I bought 3 by Ed Templeton. I've really liked Ed's work for a while now and when he has a solo show his work can be $3000 each. I got 3 images for $20 each at Phongraphy and I'm almost as happy about that as I am about having a picture in the show. The show was PACKED. In fact the Blind Lady staff were concerned about capacity and finally had to start a line outside until some people left. By the time I left, there had to be 150 people in there. It was crowded, which is GREAT. If I remember correctly Josh (curator) said there were 164 images in the show and probably 50+ different contributors Before I left it looked like sales were going pretty well, which is great because I want Josh to get reimbursed for his expenses and I'd like there to be a decent donation made to Doctors Without Borders for Haiti too. I'm curious to see if mine sells but we'll see.


Wall A of the show.


Switching gears - I got a nice email from John Royce (pres, Cal Hts Neighborhood Assoc). He said he was talking to Robert, the owner at Roxanne's, who was looking for vintage photographs from Cal Hts to display in the bar. John said that there are not too many available and wondered if I would be interested in sending Robert some of the stuff I've been shooting around the neighborhood, particularly the pictures of the reconditioned street lamps. I am stoked that Mary Sramek tagged John in some of those pix on facebook or this never would have come about. I've sent some images to Robert ... we'll see. I think i posted a couple of the pix on the last blog entry. Most are from my phone but here's one from the camera:

Rib Shots is started

I imported the few entries I did on my "FTW" blog. That blog was going to be a food truck blog, but I don't want to do that anymore and I haven't been chasing food trucks lately. I think a photo blog will be healthier anyway, that's what the earlier blogs are referring to "FTW" or "Food Truck World." I had no subscribers to that blog and I expect to tell the same amount of people about this one.

My main goal is to post pictures here. Not daily as I don't have access to this computer daily and this computer has my photo software and photo storage, but at least a few times per week. I've started bringing my camera with me everywhere I go. I don't take it out of the bag everywhere I go, but I have it, just in case.



I'm in my first photo show and I'm pretty stoked about it. I heard about the show and sent an email to the curator and asked if I could submit a few pictures for consideration. He said yes and I'm in. One picture for sure maybe 2 depending on room and space. Either way I'm pretty stoked even if I'm not on the flier.

Since I've said the point of this blog is to encourage me to post pictures, I guess I should post one now. Maybe 2. These were taken in Oxnard on 01/05/2011.





Wagon Wheel

Zeph's Guard dog

  



OK - so they are not great, but I like them.