Friday night was Ethan Keller's CD release party at Club Timbukto in river west. I was there with my camera to grab some shots for Ethan. The show was great! This album will be at the top of my playlist for a long time. Click the link's below to fallow Ethan on twitter and check out his website.
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The Set Up from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
Those of you who watch the blog know that I have been getting into time lapse photography. It has proven to be an exercise in patience and none more than last night. I spend hours watching a parking lot fill and then empty. It was like watching water boil except with out the joy of a cup of tea at the end.
Fill It Up from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
Time To Go from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
This weekend my brother plays the lead in the latest Monona Grove High musical. I had the chance to see him preform at one of the dress rehearsals and I got to say it was great. Thanks in no small part to my bro. His character is a smooth talkin' ladies man who rides into town on a motorcycle, which is basically my brother on any Tuesday minus the motorcycle.
Clock from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
I'm not running for office but I do need your support. One of the photos from my recent trip through the south west has made it to the National Geographic Daily dozen. It's the last of the 12 images so click the link below and vote me a big fat 10.
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A photographer friend asked how I made the first shot of the coming to LA story. I had to make another one for my client Kristen Don and thought I would record it for your viewing pleasure. Most of the time I am a "get it right in camera" kind of guy but there are times when it just makes more sense to leave your self some photoshop work. The location for the highway with the view of the city was an hour away and I knew we were not going to fit it in into our schedule. Since I was building the image in photoshop anyway I made the city a little closer than it normally is. It took me about 45 minutes to complete the the final image but here you see it in super fast motion.
Making of from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
Now that I'm back in Milwaukee I can get back to my lakefront waves project. These images were taken at Doctors Park, a park I remember going to as a child with my father. He would go down to the beach and make sculptures out of drift wood with his friends. I might try my hand at that on my next visit and photograph the results.
Last night I was going over some of the images from my road trip that didn't make it to the blog. I managed to find one more to post. The mountain stream in this image is almost glowing. Most of my images are color but sometimes removing that color can add so much to the image. It was taken on my first drive through the Superstition Mountains of Arizona so I was thinking of "Superstitious Fog" as the title.
I had the privilege of working with a talented fashion designer in Los Angeles last week. We came up with a fashion story about a girl who comes to Los Angeles and becomes a star. It's the same dream that everyone has when they come to Hollywood. The story fallows our protagonist as she hitchhikes to the city, finds her new home, reads some scripts, has a head shot done, and becomes famous. I love the first shot, downtown Los Angeles reminds me of the first shot of the emerald city at the edge of the poppy field in The Wizard of OZ.
The road home was full of long days in the car. It has been amazing being on the road these last two months. The rumble of the engine on my feet the feel of the rising sun on my back and a horizon begging to be found.
Los Angeles is one of the few places where the stars come out below you. Both literally and figuratively. Over the course of this trip I am realizing that the best part of being a photographer is you have to be there. A painter can put brush to canvas in a basement but photographers get to go to these locations and experience them first hand.
City of Angles from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
Hollywood Sign from Carl Stevens on Vimeo.
I spent most of the day on the road to Phoenix yesterday, making one stop in an amazing valley. The entire valley is covered with windmills of all types. It is a wonderful sight to be able to see green power being created and behind it the reason for its creation.
My journey in the most american of directions has brought me just about as far as I can go. I spent Friday walking the beach in along the city of angles to photograph Santa Monica and Venice Piers. These are the first in my series of wave images taken on the ocean.
Last night my tour of the south west took me to the Rhythm Room in Phoenix to hear Tony Lucca and Keaton Simons. It was the first show of their tour and a great first show at that. The two of them who normally play separately showed true humility by taking the stage together and not stepping into the headliner position individually. Click here and see if this great blues show is coming to a venue near you.
I spent the day at Liberty Wildlife getting the tour and taking some photos. I have never seen large birds so close, it was great. They let me release a small bird back into the wild. There will be more wildlife photos in coming weeks for sure.
These are the images of the mountain stream I mentioned in the last post. It was a challenge to climb down to the stream with all my camera equipment but even harder to climb back up. It was more than a 45 degree incline covered with loose rocks. Landscape photography lesson #52 is big rocks on the side of a mountain are not the most steady. Thankfully the large rocks I caused to fall were falling away from me and not on top of me.
I took another drive into the mountains this week with my camera. I found a great mountain stream that fell through a series of falls that was great. They will be in my next post.
I hiked into Lost Dutchman's State Park today. The park is on the west side of the Superstition Mountains and gets it's name from an old myth about a lost gold mine know as the lost dutchman's mine. This most famous of american lost mines is said to be cursed or protected by guardians keeping the gold safe for it's former Apache Tribe owners. Maybe it's the snakes this sign warn about that is keeping the mine hidden.
My trip on Thursday to the Superstition Mountains was rained out. But on the way back to Phoenix I stopped by Lost Dutchman State Park to see this.
It's the trailing edge of the rain storm I had been in all day long. The sun was pouring through a single hole in the cloud spilling onto a cliff face. It only lasted for a minute and then it was gone.
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