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Robinson, KS

Josh — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:03:03 +0000

Drew and I went up to Robinson, KS the other day. It was cold. Here are some of my favorite shots.

Random Shots, August 2009

the solars — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:08:00 +0000

It pains me to type this post. Drew is moving, so our monthly random shoots are not possible any longer. We’ve been doing them for almost 2 years now, and only missed last month (because Jenny unexpectedly flew to Cleveland). So, this is my last monthly random shoot with Drew for awhile

I will, be doing other random photo projects (you gotta stay fresh), and I’ve got a few fun ideas spinning throughout my head, so stay tuned. And, Drew, I wish you the best of luck in Southern California!

So, I bring you, Higginsville, MO. We met some nice people, ate at the fanciest restaurant in town, and learned about frog gigging. Plus, we saw some cool crap, too!

Random Shots, June 2009 Tonganoxie, KS

the solars — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Every month, Drew and I spend countless hours trying to figure out where we should go for our random shoot. Well, not for the month of June. I have visited a small town we’ve yet to photograph, and that town goes by the name of Tonganoxie. Tonganoxie is really quite an interesting place. In fact, UPS only delivers there on Mondays (I kid). It was totally worth the trip when we stumbled across this really sweet farm

They had horses.

They were Longhorn fans

They had super cool old chairs.

I think the mayor lived there.

They have a lazy gardener

And creepy eagle statues.

The rusty, blue tractor was super sweet, though.

Then we met this VERY intimidating guard dog. He liked to shed hair all over us

We decided to leave the awesome farm, and head into town. After these next 2 images, I got yelled at by a butcher with some REALLY big knives. I walked away from that one complete with all my limbs!

We visited the local record store and found an exciting assortment of new releases.

Basically, Tonganoxie is kind of creepy. They do have good BBQ (Daniel’s BBQ), and my awesome friends, Kelley & Sam live there (Kris, if you still live in Tongaxoxie, you’re cool too, as is any/all of Kelley’s friends who might/might not live there)

Note: Thanks, Kelley for having such a cool farm to take pictures of. And, Sam, your eagle statue is cool, I was just jk’in ya. But, really, the rest of Tonganoxie is a little weird (no offense).

Random Shots, May 2009 – Adrian, MO

the solars — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Well, after dinner Drew and I got to explore Adrian and the surrounding areas a little bit. I focused on a lot of textures, because that is what was grabbing me on this particular day. Enjoy!

Random Shots, April 2009 – Strasburg, MO

the solars — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:29:00 +0000

It’s been over 18 months now since Drew and I started going shooting to random places, and we haven’t missed a month yet. We have cut it a little bit too close the last two months though, by going on the absolute last possible day of the month, and yesterday, I was a little worried that the rain was going to force us to do two in May. Lucky for us, the rain stopped just long enough for us to hit up Strasburg, MO, population 136 or 137, depending on what sign you’re looking at…

Strasburg, MO. pop. 136…

or is it 137? That is the world’s biggest mystery and I don’t think we’ll ever find the true answer.

Vines.

I liked the texture in the weeds.

We left Strasburg pondering how many people actually lived there and came across this nice Winnebago.

There was even a welcome mat for us…and a snake (not in the picture) that made Drew scream like Jeremy

All you maggots….awwww, screw it

Random Shots, March 2009 St. Joseph

the solars — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Well, we BARELY made our monthly shoot for March, knocking it out yesterday afternoon. Drew and Jeremy and I had fun driving around St. Joe and smelling all the cow poop, and we thoroughly enjoyed our Crumbly Burgers. I also got a sweet new little film camera and shot my first roll of film this decade. Now I just have to be patient and get it developed

Either way, I’m super behind on processing stuff, but I wanted to share a few of my favs really quick.

Processing note – I used this to create a custom daguerreotype film look

Enjoy!

Random Shots, February 2009 – Downtown KC

the solars — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:05:00 +0000

I headed out yesterday for my monthly photo shoot with Drew, and although it was cold, and you could see your breath, it wasn’t really THAT BAD. I mean, it was too cold for Kelley and Jeremy Arnold, but real photographers, like Stacy Schmitz could handle it. Also, I was going to say that Canon cameras can’t focus in cold weather and that’s why Jeremy didn’t want to come, but then I remembered that Canon cameras can’t focus in any weather

Anyway, here are a few of my favs.

Random Shots, January 2009 – Creighton

the solars — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Last month, I did a shoot in Creighton and found some really neat stuff that I needed to come back and get pics of, so I saved the location in our GPS to make sure we could easily find it again. Well, we found it, but trying to come home a different way was probably not the best idea we ever had.

Anyway, Drew and I normally go out by ourselves to take pics, but Jenny and Ashley Parsons had some “girl time” so Jeremy came out with us for some “man time” to do “man things”, and my buddy, Doty, was back from college so he came out as well.

I know that Drew has been stalking the blog like an impatient bride, so here you go, brotha!

Random Shots, December 2008 & David Bazan

Jenny — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:50:00 +0000

Ok, Drew and I finished the year off with an awesomely random photo shoot for the month of December. It started when he called me last Monday asking if I wanted to go see David Bazan with him on Friday night for free in St. Louis. I talked Jenny into letting me go on Tuesday and it was a done deal. Sweet! Then Drew mentioned that Emma, a town we’ve been dying to go to, was on the way to St. Louis and we should make it our random shoot for the month also. Even sweeter!

So, on Friday, I headed to St. Louis with Drew, Jeremy (a cool dude) and Brandon (a cool dude and an amazing painter) for a fun little one night photography/awesome music get away

The first few shots are from some random spot in Emma, pop. 204! Honestly, the only thing that sucked about Emma was that we really needed about 30 more minutes to fully explore everything Emma.

Then we took off down the road and Drew spotted this sweet junkyard off the side of the highway, with just a few minutes of sunlight left, we quickly pulled over and found some of the sweetest old cars ever! Again, I feel that we could have used about 30 more minutes here. There was just too much to see!

Bummed because we didn’t have 30 more minutes to play, and out of sunlight, we headed on to St. Louis…

We had a little Bazan warm-up on Brandon’s ipod. I know, you’re not supposed to listen to who you are going to see on the way to the concert, but they wouldn’t listen to me.

Warm-up time. Nicely lit…

Concert time. Poorly lit. I would like to point out here that it NEVER looks good lighting a concert with 2 red lights and 1 blue one from the side. EVER. Thanks lighting guy for a crappy job!

So, you get a bunch of black & whites

Note: the “30 more minutes needed” portion of the blog comes courtesy of Brandon for being 30 minutes late and making us miss some awesome light. JK…I had a fun night, and definitely paid for it the next day with a lack of sleep

Random Shots, November 2008

the solars — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:48:00 +0000

Well, Drew and I have been going on these little excursions for 13 months now, and I feel they keep me fresh. So, we wanted to try something new this month and go back to a place we had already shot at to see if we saw it any differently, so what better place than Levasy, MO, population 108! It’s crazy to see the pics I shot then, and compare them to the ones I shot on Wednesday.

Last time

And, here’s my shots from this time…