Dec 7 1941

Today 60 years ago Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and Six aircraft carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku) launch its their launch aircraft to attack Pearl Harbor. Today we honor those gave their lives on both sides.


Admiral Yamamoto opposed war against the United States, Because of the studies at Harvard University (1919-1921). He say that Japan couldn't win an all out war with the US. But He believed that if Japan could destroy the US Naval Fleet in one shot. Then the US would sue for peace. As peace talks broke down Admiral Yamamoto prepared his attacked. He originally stipulated that attack on Pearl Harbor should not commence until thirty mins after Japan had informed the United States Government. But the attack took place after the notice could be delivered. It was after the attack Admiral Yamamoto know that Japan had " Waken a Sleeping Giant".


This image is a pic of the USS. California on the day attack. The California took two torpedoes and two bombs killing 100 men. Three days of flooding the California settled into the mud with only its superstructure remain above the surface. On 25 march 1942 the California was refloated and repaired. On 17 September she sailed to Philippines to help out in the Invasion.


The image below is a shot of the USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado-class battleship. This image is the rare photographs that was taken during the war and in color. In this shot we can see sailors trying to up out the flames of the West Virginia. The black smoke rapping around them making it hard to fire the fires. As tragic as Pearl Harbor is this shot has to be one of the more powerful and beautiful shot I have seen. The Superstructures stand out the black smoke as to say " I am still here, you can do what you want but I still stand"


On board Arizona, the ship's air raid alarm went off about 07:55. Shortly after 08:00, the ship was attacked by 10 Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers. The bombers scored four hits and three near misses on and around Arizona. The last bomb hit at 08:06 in the vicinity of Turret II, likely penetrating the armored deck near the ammunition magazines located in the forward section of the ship. About seven seconds after the hit, the forward magazines detonated in a cataclysmic explosion

The image below is the USS Arizona taken at the time of the magazines explode. This caused the forward turrets and conning tower to collapse downward some 25–30 feet (7.6–9.1 m) and the foremast and funnel to collapse forward. The explosion killed 1,177 of the 1,400 crewmen on board at the time, almost half of the lives lost during the attack. This image is one of the most powerful images of the war. It is a point of time where the world stops and reflex on the souls that where lost daring the war.

Pic of the week

"Beacon 4x5"

This image was created last year using a 4x5 camera. What I love about this image is way the light creates its own texture on the negative. A texture that focuses the eye on the light and the colors in the trees.

Pic of the week

"Comes the Inquisitor" 16x16

This image is apart of my coffee prints, taken with a holga camera with a 120 file. The image to me give a sense of wonder with the sun crossing to the sky, as if it is watching our little lives.

Model Pic

Over the pass two months I have been taken photos of models. I began this project to help my skills as a growing photographer. The skills I have been focusing on light, content, and profession when it comes to the images. Here is some images from one of this shots

"Jenna"


"Jenna"


"Jenna"

"Jenna"

Miroslaw Rogala

Miroslaw Rogala was born 1954, Known was one of the most important interactive media artists in the world. By trying to challenge man's relationship to nature and to his fellow man.


He does this by creating Large-scale complexes, that creates the idea of placement for the viewer. Where the viewer is pulled toward a center point. Creating a movement around the image but in the end the eye goes returns back the center.
He brings the viewer viewer into his world with interactive media software, digital photography, installations, music and performance works. Creating multitude of impressions and the variety of his visually transmitted world make each encounter a new experience.


His news photography and creative imagery engaging landscape and still life images transformed through the use of combined technology involving a specialized Minds-Eye-View 360 degree perspective software.

His work create a wonder to pieces and new life to how we view an image.

A Moment Between Darkness and Light

"A Moment Between Darkness and Light" is my second solo gallery show. This series focuses on the interplay between shadow and light that can be found between the emulsion of the film. The effect that is created in these images are a combination of the vignette from a Holga camera and the coffee developer.

I have always believe that an images are more than 2-dimensional objects. That an image is made up with different textures. Textures that can be found between the emulsion and the layering of the lights and darks. The coffee negatives begin to take on a life of there own

The Parliament Of Dreams 16x16

" The Parliament Of Dreams" is an image give the viewer an idea of another world. A place that could be trapped in time or a meet place that is still in use today. What nice about this piece is the vignette around the edges. It creates a blur that enforces a dream like state

Although we have the general concept and impression of what makes an image, photography transforms the 3-dimensional world into a flat 2-dimensional object. It is my opinion that is there is more to this concept of what makes these image.

"Shadow Dancing" 16x16

"Shadow Dancing" is an image deals the play in light and the way the shadows seem to move across the image. Creating an image seems more alive then 2-dimensional object.

Pic of the week

"Northwesten" 16x24

Here is the first 4x5 film that I have developed in coffee. I hope you all enjoy this image.

"The Memory of Shadows" 4x5

Snow, snow, snow

I know I been gone for a bit, I been busy finishing up in school. So here is some pic I took with my Holga. The pic in this post was taken in after a big show storm hit Kansas City. If I remember right it snowed about 15in in one night.

The Reconstruction of a Third Dimension

Although we have the general concept and impression of what an image is, photography is a special kind of image that transforms the 3-dimensional world into a flat 2-dimensional object. However, whether an image is flat or not still raises more questions about what a photograph is and in my opinion there is more to this concept of what makes an image. I think that the viewer needs to focus on subject matter, the process of making a photograph, how the image is constructed, and the space around the image. These ideas help to shape this concept and the idea of an image is.

"East Grant Avenue / South Main Street pt1" 24x16

These ideas are the mainstay and focus of my work. In this way it leads that me though a body of work that began with my use of two dimensional photographs to create a three dimensional image. While working with this process and trying to stay within the confines of photographic realism of the artwork. I think that creating the images in this way might lead to and explore new feelings for the viewer resulting in an image that is images that are three dimensional in appearance and both graphic in style, a and constructed reality, and three dimensional in appearance. In a way this creates an image that is more two and half dimensions in nature. Now these images force the viewer to re-evaluate their perception of space. This expands the image from a two dimensional plane into a space around the image, interlocking the space and idea into one concept that, we can classify as an image. With out this I strongly believe that the focus and meaning is lost to the viewer.

"East Grant Avenue / South Main Street pt2" 24x16

We have the general concept and impression of what an image is. Is an image flat or is there more to the idea of what an photograph is? It is my opinion there is more to this concept of what makes an image. I feel that the viewer needs to focus on subject matter, the process of making a photograph, how the image is constructed, and the space around the image. These ideas help to create this concept and
the idea an image is.

"Doorway" 16x24

These concerns are the mainstay and focus of my work and are what have led me though a body of work that began with my use of two dimensional photographs to create a three dimensional image. While working with this process I have tried to stay within the confines of photographic realism in my artwork. I think that creating the images in this way are leading to explorations of new feelings for the viewer and have resulted in images that are three dimensional in appearance and both graphic in style, and constructed realities that are three dimensional in appearance. In a way this creates an image that is more two and half dimensions in nature and cause the viewer to re-evaluate their perception of space. This expands the image from a two dimensional plane into a space that flows through the image interlocking the space and idea into one concept that we can classify as an image that focuses new kinds of meaning for the viewer.

"Trap gallery"

On Nov 19, 2010 I first showed this body of work at the Trap Gallery in the Kansas City Area. This Body of work focus on Greensburg Ks, a town in south of Kansas that was hit by a F-5 Tornado. 90% of the town was destroyed. I wanted to create a body of work that was about rebuilding the Town. I traveled there for two and half years, documenting the rebuilding process.