Small Town Art

Sometimes I don't like to be out shooting pictures for hours. Some times I really enjoy doing quick little sessions. Maybe to not burn out so quickly. Or maybe cause my camera is just so freaking heavy... I don't like to carry it sometimes :)
This past weekend I drove to Idaho with closest friends to celebrate my best friend about to get married. She happens to live in St Maries Idaho... Know where that is? Yeah, don't feel bad, not a lot do. I know I sure as heck didn't. Anyway's, so we went and her town was celebrating a festival called smART. It was the local artists in the area, showing off their art. Their was a tattoo stand and paintings and jewelry and sculptures. It was a pretty cool event. And one I didn't take a lot of pictures at. And It's ok because sometimes you dont need a million to tell a story. Just a few.

Cool part is the pink top layer is tequilla....rose :)

4th of July Light Graffiti

Story time!

When I had first met Dylan back in October, we came to find that we had a lot of very similar inetrests as far as graphic design, photography, and art in general. I had gone over to Idaho the day of Halloween to visit Mary and Scott and to celebrate Halloween over there. Later than night after Mary and I had gone out, I settled onto my air mattress and just got caught up on internet things happening, because I had no cell phone reception. I checked my email and there was an email from Dylan talking to me about some light graffiti. i checked it out, googled some on the internet and found some kick ass stuff. I immediatly called him and we sat on the phone for about 45 min, talking about how we could do something like that and all we would need were glow sticks or led flashlights. It would cost nothing. A week later we set up in his work shop and experemented. 

Here are a few of the ones we did:

So after some time had passed, we had remember that we hadn't done any light graffiti even though it came up in conversation a lot. We moved into our 2 bedroom apartment and one night I suggested we try it again, with the glow sticks.

Some of those didn't turn out as well as we had liked. We only tried for like 10 min and gave up.

Approaching the 4th of July, no longer having the plans that we orginally had, we decided that we were going to get some sparklers and try light graffiti one more time before we part ways.

Needless to say that this time turned out a lot better and was a lot of fun to do.

Here are some of the newest ones we just took last night.

Rickey and Alana

I have known Alana since 6th grade, at Ford Middle school in Tacoma. She always lived about 6 min away from my house. Alana and I started FP together and spent the four years seeing each other more and more in similar classes. Finally we were reconnected to our very similar passion for photography and journalism. We took two high school trips together, one to San Fran and one to Denver. Alana started college in Bellingham and I stayed here in Tacoma but even so with Distance we stayed close friends and in good contact. I remember one summer her talking to me about this guy she had met while working one day. He was considerably older than her, so she was a little apprehensive about talking to him a lot, or possibly going out.
But as years past they grew more and more and now are together. Rickey just spent a term over in Iraq, fighting for the things that we take for granted every day. Alana's wish was for them to have pictures taken together so she would have something while he was over there, but unfortunatly it never happened.
We just spent last weekend together at the Taste of Tacoma and I had brought my camera, against not wanting to because of the weight and not wanting to lug my camera bag along with me the entire day. We stopped to listen to one of the live bands and this is what I captured of them.

I love Alana with all my heart and I love that she is happy with someone who is so perfect for her.