February Snow

Cactus Snow!


This bottle has been sitting on the pedestrian bridge for over a week now. At first it really freaked me out because my first assumption about a beer bottle is that it is made of glass. I was proven wrong on this one. Plastic. However, just by looking at it, you would never guess it was just that.



I just love the birds in this image.


After all the snow had melted off the bridge it made some wicked reflections.

Lubbock has been crazy, but we all knew that already. Tuesday was gorgeous though. Big white fluffy flakes of snow traveled across the Llano and I took that opportunity to walk to work on campus, not bike, walk. Walking allowed me to sniff up all the snowflakes up my nose I could manage, really appreciate the feeling of fluffy ice hitting me in the eye, and figure out just how quickly snow melted through denim and chucks. Beautiful day. By the time I got to work I had a tummy sated with sky water, pants soaked up to the knees (an a little on the bum) and 2 gigs on my CF card full.

These are just my favorites.

Confidential Information

Mabely and I work together up at the Foreign Language Building at Texas Tech. While I was going through a very inspirational photographic journey, and after we shredded 4 bags of paper, I told Mabely to sit and hold a piece of paper for me and she did.

I want to do this shoot again, but I thought I would put up a shot of my favorite from that 5 minute shoot.

Ugly Brain Fish

Mr. Aquarium on 34th and University were gracious enough to let Rob and I photograph one of their fish in the store. My first idea was to buy a fish, bring it into the studio, play around, and then dispose of the fish as humanely as possible because I personally do not want a fish this ugly crapping up my head vase. That's all goldfish do anyway, eat and poop. By the end of the shoot there was already poo all over the place. Stupid fish.

Anyway, so Rob and I do the shoot, using his 580EX's and overall I really enjoyed what resulted. We tried a bunch of different angles, some with no success at all, but these are the ones that really made my favorites list. The vase was a gift from my sister and luckily it was small enough that Mr. Ugly here couldn't swim that much which made it easier to photograph him. It was timing his breaths that was the tricky part and getting him to face the photographer.

Overall, the shoot was a success and I am anxious to see what Rob managed to snag as well.