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More pics and info on Salton Sea Trash The Dress

January 17, 2008

Chris Austin was the organizer of this whole Trash The Dress Session at the Salton Sea (yes, he's the guilty instigator of all of this!). He's put up a separate page here for the project. On it you can find links to lots links to galleries from more than a dozen talented photographers! If you want to see some good TTD pics, check this out.

There is also the Trash The Dress Blog, and some of our work is showing up on there as well. As Mark Eric says on the TTD blog, it's about creation, not destruction. There is also this vid byMatt Adcock and Sol Tamargo (now husband and wife:-)) of a TTD session in the Mayan Riviera. It's awesome. The bride looks like a mermaid, just beautiful.

I think people do it for different reasons. You'll notice in many of my pics (and some of the other photographers as well), the husbands were involved, which I think is fantastic.

You can see I was into lens flares and lots of backlight for this shoot :-)

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Laura Kay Photography: i love it! great shoot!!! i love the color in the 2nd one!!!!''-laura

Jaci Clark: WOW! These are fantastic! Great work! I love them all!'Cheers,'Jaci

Jessamyn Harris: seriously, amazing!!

Christine Gacharna: these are really, really beautiful...

Mary: the 2nd one, that color, the floating bride...surreal, love it.

Kara Pennington Photography: Amazing, Amazing, Amazing!! I saw a bunch of these on TTD and they truly are incredible! You guys rocked it!

Natalie: You ROCK!! You were so great to work with -- I'm glad you made it after such a disastrous morning. We were happy to stay and try to make it worth it. The pictures look great -- I love watching them all get put up everywhere on the net.

Michael Andrews: Thanks for the nice comments, guys, really :-)

david & kimi baxter: these are awesome michael. i really like the last one, and the color in the second one is insane!

Tracy Bohannan: Those are some AWESOME shots!

Shari Zellers: Wow Michael! These are incredible! You know I love infrared but that sunset shot is freakin' fee-nom-inal! ;P
This must have been so much fun..TTD is such a blast creatively!

Trash The Dress session at Salton Sea, round 2

January 15, 2008

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I'm still trying to describe what this project is about. I guess the meaning is different for different people. I think it's a fun way to make unique photographs of something special to you. In thie mean time, these pics are from the latest batch that I have edited.

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Melissa Koehler: I LOVE that first shot. What a great angle! Her shoes are awesome!

Michael Andrews: David and Kimi-'Thanks! I don't do much post work like these require because I'm usually more of a purist PJ shooter, but then one of the reasons I did this shoot was to step outside my comfort zone and push myself creatively.'Hey Ed-'Thanks for the shoe comment. I think showing the trashing of shoes is equally important! ;-)

ed pingol: that shoe shot is fantastic!

david & kimi baxter: love your processing on these michael, that first shot is awesome!

Trash The Dress session at Salton Sea

January 14, 2008

Salton Sea, Trash The Dress

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These are the first images I've edited from a group Trash The Dress shoot at The Salton Sea. I'll be adding more, with more info and explanations of "You did WHAT with your wedding dress?!?!?!?!" Click on an image for a larger size view.

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Melissa Koehler: That first shot is awesome Michael. I had a blast at the TTD!

david & kimi baxter: lovin that first one as well. but i really like the second. it has a old west feel, don't ask. i just really like how she looks, like you caught her in a moment. nice work man!

Family portraits in Elfin Forest near Morrow Bay

January 04, 2008

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Some pictures of my niece, Michaela, and nephew, Ian from Christmas. We celebrate Hanuka and Christmas. And that's my mini-poodle Bailey in the pic with Ian and the robot :-)

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Jill: The shot with the robot is awesome...love it!

John (S): I love the shot of the boy, the dog, and the robot. To me, it looks like the dog is rolling its eyes at the robot!

Dinea de Photo: The doggie is so cute. Super fun.

Shawn: Love that shot in the tree Michael.'Hope you're well.

The Wire is coming ....... back to HBO, but still under the radar.

January 03, 2008

So now that we're getting back into TV season -- with no end to writers strike in sight -- there is a show that has gone largely unnoticed on HBO called The Wire. It is better than anything else I have seen on TV in the last 10-15 years, including The Sopranos. It has really slipped under the radar. To describe this show is actually really hard; it's a cop show, but it is SO MUCH MORE. One of the head writers, David Simon, has been a driving force of the creative team behind the series, which includes many of the same folks from the excellent seriesHomicide on NBC in the 90s, which was based on Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The writing, characters, story lines, plot development, acting, directing, production value, editing, is all outstanding. It has really great depth, and you cannot not watch it passively; you have pay attention. You have to have some willingness to get involved in it. Each season has also explored different topics as a background and subtext to the plot lines and characters. Last season it was the failure of public education, in Baltimore specifically, but also in the much broader context of the failure of public education in general. The season before that explored drug reform in an urban environment, approached from a variety of perspectives.
Really great stuff.
Starts Jan. 6th.
This message has been brought to you by no one but me :-)

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