Take that nate - Aaron

So this is in response to Nates criticism of my post name being The Bobby Cox Experience. He claims that Bobby, in the first picture, is the uggliest manager ever in the Majors. I beg to differ, here I think ive made a pretty good case for Don Zimmer, the second picture, being the uggliest manager ever. He did manage the Red Sox from 1976 to 1979. You guys be the judge.

My first Real HDR....maybe - Aaron

ok so these are my first two attempts at an hdr. Oh and Brain, sorry for shooting the same thing in your post under this one...but i mean its pretty photogenic. There wansnt a huge amount of variance between the two pictures so the hdr wasnt totally neccesary. But the first one came out well because you can see the veins in the un-opened buds. As you can see there is also a bit of a ghost in the bud on the left, but being that that is the only one, and I was shooting outside, and it is windy im pretty happy with it.

The second photo I really like because of the angle. I set up the tripod and am shooting strait down on it so it makes for a cool angle. The third is just my favorite of the non hdr photos. So you can look at the 2 and compare. Let me know what you guys think.

Bored Macros - Brian

I tend to shoot macro stuff when I get bored. I make no claims to be a good photographer I just enjoy taking pictures. These shots have very little PP since I am sans photoshop. If anyone has a PC version that I could "buy" it would be greatly appreciated.

-B

[b.productive] - Aaron

Well kyle suggested I delve into the back of my files to find some old photos so here are some. These were shot using the best little point-and-shoot around. The ol'ympus did me well for a few years. At one point i even bought a water housing for it, added it to an old bodyboard, and shot quicktimes out in the water with it. Anyway, on to these photos.

These are some photos from the production Jwest and i did a couple years ago for our friend/current big-shot, Terrance "Gay Blackman" Diamond. These photos were Ken Burns' into about a 6 minute time lapse that we showed at terry's art shows, wich eventually turned into another short Documentary that we won our first awards for, and even some video production jobs for [framed]productions. The frist photo has always been one of my favorites just because you cant really tell that we are just outside in his driveway while hes painting. He is an amazing artist, and it was fun just sitting out in his driveway all night listening to some good music and making art.

Hi there! - Nate

I thought of introducing myself with some remotely intelligent quip concerning the absurdity of naming yourself after the ugliest MLB manager in history...but i will refrain. (Go Cubs) This photo was taken on an old point and shoot digital but is still one of my favorites to this day. The skater is Chris Helack who is one of the tallest, skinniest rippers I know. The setting sun was casting a prefect silhouette of Chris onto the the sheet metal ramp so I decided to snap a few. My name is Nate Lee and I work with Aaron at the Brewery. Going to slave on my video now.

N

i think i just swallowed a fly - kyle

so yeah, a bit of trouble with the login this morning so my old username, the great mustachio, is dead after all of one post. anyways down to business.

these are a few photos from my easter break (thats a month long in the uk, thank you very much) and as you can probably tell, these aint your daddys photos. thats right, they were made using the all new, super cool, punk rocking, hdr technique thingamajig. besides looking cool, its the only justification I have so far for hauling my heavy ass tripod halfway around the world, being as im far too lazy to carry it around most of the time. if you dont know what hdr is, im sure wikipedia has an article on it, and the fact that anybody else on (or in, maybe?) the internet could have written it probably means they can explain it much better than i can. but i digress...

the first two pictures arent really hdr anyways. theyre single raw exposures processed into three different jpegs (in 2 ev increments if you want to get nerd about it) and then merged with photomatix. the bottom two are "real" hdrs in so much as they came from multiple exposures, but i like them less so it doesnt much matter. the one of the rocky landscape is kinda shit because after 15 minutes of trying to wedge my tripod between two wet, slippery rocks whilst getting composition i was after, the damned thing still moved in between exposures. and so goes the blur in the photo. as for the picture of the jetty, well it doesnt really knock my socks off.

by the way, the flower photo was taken in maidstone, kent at a lovely park where russell shortly thereafter beat my ass in golf. the bottom three were taken in bognor regis during my trip to butlins with my roommates. for my fellow americans, butlins is basically a south of the border type establishment with 50% more white trash and 100% less fireworks. russ (who is the fellow in the second photo) and i dusted off a nasty hangover and broke out of our gated holiday camp for a sunrise photo session. russ has actually been hijacking my camera a lot lately and coming back with some pretty damned good photos so maybe he can do a special guest appearance later and get some of his pics up. anyways, its sunny out. time to go play...over and out, bandit.

the fannypack/bumbag debacle - kyle

ok so, i was supposed to post yesterday but there was a bouncy castle on campus and well, you know, a mans gotta have priorities... anyways, im digging into the back catalogue for this one, i guess its about a year old, but i chose it for a couple of reasons. first off, it was one of the best days out ive had shooting in recent memory. gen, joe and i went out around wilmington during riverfest and shot all day and well into the night. we all walked away with a pretty good amount of decent photos, but more importantly, just had a damned good time.

i got the above photo when we were walking up castle street and passed a little store that was literally wedged between two houses. i peeked in as we passed it and immediately wanted to go in and shoot. but im lazy and didnt. after like a block of hating myself i told gen and joe id catch up with them and ran back to the store. that spry young bird getting her hairs cut is the owner of the store and after talking to everybody in there for a bit, i asked if i could take some of their photos. i shot away for about 5 minutes, bought a tall boy and walked back, much happier. anyways if youre on downtown end of castle street (like 2nd or 3rd i think) go in there and get patronize these nice people.

ps. despite the many hours we spent shooting and walking around downtown wilmington (during a festival no less) joe was barefoot. he always does that shit and one day when he gets meningitis, ill be the first to laugh at him...and then the first to apologize to him. kinda like i did when his appendix burst...

Photos of Frank Gehry - Aaron

While I was in NYC visiting my brother this past christmas I shot a lot of photos. I had just gotten my new D70, and while I was up there we went to B&H on the busiest day of the year...the final sunday before Christmas. Amazingly, because I knew what I was looking for, I managed to be in and out in about 30 minutes. I got my 70-300 and then walked around most of lower Manhattan.

Right accross from Chelsea Pier is Frank Gehry's first Manhattan project. He is one of my favorite architects, so to get the chance to photograph a work in progress was pretty cool for me. Sydney Pollack's documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry actually ends with him talking about starting this building. He designed it this way so that when you are traveling down the river to the west, it looks like the sails of a giant sail boat or "schooner". The first one shows exactly what he was talking about.

Well lets get this started - Aaron

Well no better way to start off the blog then with a picture of Cheikh. This man is our 64 year old dishwasher down at the brewery. He was born in Senegal, has 3 wives and countless children. He is easily the hardest working man ive ever met. He works between 80 and 90 hours a week; doubles every day except for friday, on which he prays.

This photo was taken behind the brewery the morning of the judging day of our Mustache March competition. Cheikh had entered in the pre-existing facial hair category as he had been growing this mustache for countless generations.

Shark Fight! Monkey Bite!

This is a Blog currently edited by Aaron Blakely and Kyle Clark. It will include a bunch of our current photography paired with the stories behind them. Feel free to post comments/critiques about our photography, as well as any questions you may have. Each of us will be glad to explain anything you need to know about the photos...especially some of Kyle's HDR's.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Aaron Blakely
Kyle Clark