In 2015(?) I bought a used Canon A1 film camera with a cheap wide angle lens for $80. I got a job working in the photo development lab in the basement of a local community college and learned how to shoot and develop film.
With the ever-growing cost of 35mm film, a good portion of what you see here is shot on expired and improperly stored film rolls found at thrift stores.
Photos that include the negatives were shot on a 4foot wide, double light table i got off Craigslist for $100 and take up a significant amount of room in my studio. These are some of my favorite shots from over the years.
"You were not put on this Earth to 'get it,' Mr. Burton."
-Lo Pan
Color shifting shot of Crab Park Beach off of Cannibal Island Road in Ferndale, California
2022
Olympus 35SP
Paul Juno in his art studio in the Little Tokyo Art Complex in North Hollywood. All of the artwork seen here have since been lost in the fire that burned down his studio
CanonA1
Morning coffee and fire building on a backpacking trip with my two older brothers on the Dosewallips river trail inside Olympic National Park
Olympus 35SP
On a flight back to Seattle from Orcas Island after
spending a week at Doe Bay for Imagine Festival, where we not only helped create an interactive art installation, but also filmed several episodes of television.
Canon Canonet G-III QL17
Over Seattle, Washington - 2023
Looking out into the Pacific Ocean from the shoreline of the western most point of California.
It was a foggy morning.
Olympus 35SP
Western Colorado, 2020
Looking out towards the Colorado River from our campground during a 2 day rafting trip
400 speed Lomography Purple Film
Canon A1
Satsop Abandoned Nuclear Plant, Western Washington, 2023
Shot while playing frisbee with my older brother in front of the abandoned nuclear plant. The project was halted before construction of the plant was ever finished
Olympus 35SP
Deceptions Pass, Washington 2020
Shot on 400 speed Lomography Purple Film
Canon A1
Benching the trains parked in the yard of Golden Colorado
2020
Ruby Beach, Washington
2019
The end of the road for our blubbery friend. Photographed on Thanksgiving day.
Canon A1
Taken from the bottom of the Rio Grande in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico at sunrise, en route to Manby hot springs
Canon A1
(Purchasable as Skateboard Griptape here)
"i'm fine"
The last surviving photograph of the final roll shot with my Olympus 35SP. It took an unfortunate dive into the lower Illinois River in Oregon during a 3 day white water rafting trip and unfortunately succumbed to the fatal class 5 rapid water damage. RIP buddy. You were a mighty fine rangefinder.
"This is not a dream. Not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver. We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year one, nine, nine, nine. You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing. Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness, but this is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation."
Go Skateboarding Day
Denver, Colorado 2019(?)
Skater: Nick Kiery
Canon A1
Denver, Colorado 2020
Canon A1
Denver 2022
Seen every morning on my bike ride to Englewood for work. Located just off the bike path outside of the Suncorp Energy Plant
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Waiting for the train to pass in Denver, Colorado
2020
Canon A1
Ruby Beach, Washington 2019
not a dead whale
Thanksgiving Day
Canon A1
A nearly empty Arapahoe Basin, Colorado 2017(?)
Shot from a moving chair lift with a Nikkormat FT3. This camera only lived in my hands a short period of time. I caught an edge snowboarding the fallowing year with the camera in my coat pocket and took the full force of the fall onto the camera. Even though it had an all-metal construction, that fall resulted in the camera's final run on the mountain, and a massive bruise on my hipbone.
Palouse Falls, Washington - 2018
Shot en route to Vancouver during a 3000 mile road trip.
Mooney Falls
Havasupai Indian Reservation, within the Grand Canyon - Arizona - 2023
Canon Canonet G-III QL17
Denver, Colorado 2020
shot on set during a food commercial for meat
Canon A1
Taken on the Anacortes Ferry en route to Doe Bay in the San Juan Islands, 2020
Orcas Island, Washington
Canon A1
See something you like?
Any of these images can be printed on any material and shipped anywhere in the world.
Reach out with me directly and we can figure out what piece of art works in your space.
