California dreams.

I've been back in the High Five state for almost a month and I still have yet to get around to scanning all my negatives from my wonderful stay in Long Beach [California]. As a result, I've told myself I wouldn't shoot a roll of here until I finish scanning all the photos that I need too. Regardless, here are two taken with the ever so exciting Patty the Pano. Just a good old fashion California sunset w/ some standard California scenery.

Vons (1/125, @F11, ISO200)

Broadway (1/125, @F11, ISO200)

Everyone woman looks better in a sundress.

I made my departure from California on Monday and now I'm back in Michigan. Whooo. Fun time right? Right. Not really though. Here are a couple photos from my flight, courtesy of Patty (Patty the Pano; Ansco Panorama Pix) and there's also one of Jen. She's the girl that makes me real happy.

LAX to ATL (1/125, @F11, ISO200)Jen (1/125, @F11, ISO200)

Korean Friendship Bell.

This is the Korean Friendship Bell located in San Pedro. I don't really have any kind of information on it, although I did hear that Charles Manson and his crew used to play around in the chambers under it. If you're real interested I'd suggest googling it or wikipediaing it. All I know for sure is that there is really nice green grass around the entire thing and that it has an amazing view of mountains and the Pacific ocean.

(1/125, @F11, ISO200)

Hello old friend. It's been a long time.

I think I've come to the conclusion that this is just going to be a photo blog of my life. There'll rarely be actual photos that I'd personally consider "photographs". More of snap shots of my life. With that being said, I broke out my Nikon FM2 today and I'm really pumped on the outcome. I don't believe I've shot w/ this guy since earlier this year when I headed down to Landslide Skatepark to shoot w/ Daryl Nilson. I did buy five rolls of film today so I think I'll be using it a lot more and I'll put my range finder aside for a little while. Enough rambling; Let me get back to the point here. In this photo I was skeptic on what my light meter was telling me, but I normally am when it's saying to shoot at 1/4000 of a second. It must be that California sun, or maybe it's the fact that I wanted to to shoot at F1.8 for a shallow DOF. Regardless now that I'm thinking about it, it was all compensation to the "Sunny 16" rule. Go figure right?

Jen (1/4000, @F1.8, ISO200)

Hi Jen, I'm Justin.

I've been getting much use out of my Yashica as of late. It's fast becoming my new favorite toy. I've started to post up a lot of random photos on this thing as of late so this is kind of actually starting to become a blog of my life or something. I did manage to make a Flickr for some of my more serious photos, so if you have this page bookmarked you should bookmark that Flickr page too. Anyways, this is a photo I took of Jen. Almost everyday she tells me she hates me or that I suck. Well, atleast she has her facts straight.

Jen (F16, ISO200)

Hey, thanks again Jason.

My good buddy Jason gave me a box of cameras as a going away gift that he had picked up. Inside was a Kodak Duaflex II camera in prime condition. This thing looks like it was almost never used and very well taken care of. The only down side of it is that it was made for 620 film which isn't produced anymore. The substitute is to use 120 film but you'd have to modify the film spool some to make it fit. If I could scan MF film properly it might be worth it, but who knows when that'll be. Anyways, this is probably the first photo "shot" w/ this camera in over twenty years. The subject of the photo is Posie, which Tanner brought to my attention yesterday, is spelled "Posie" and not "Posey", as I've been spelling it since forever. Sorry Posie. No hard feelings.

Posie (F2.8, ISO200)

Yashica at Cherry.

This series of photographs were from a test roll of film that I shot at Cherry Park (Bixby Park) with my [at the time] new Yashica Electro 35. When I recieved this camera I wasn't even sure that worked properly, nor did I know how to use it. Even after reading the manual it seemed kind of confusing. As you can see from the photos below I think you can clearly say I still have a few kinks to work out. Either way, I feel like it's a real good camera to take on adventures and document life with.

Tanner Shay (F1.8, ISO400)

Tanner Shay (F1.8, ISO400)

Tanner Shay (F1.8, ISO400)

Yeap, almost another full month.

Working for 8 hours a day for 6 days straight means it's kind of hard to update stuff sometimes. I'm sure some of you know that. Either way, sorry about that. Here is a photo from Scott Nichols when he was here for a week or so last month. Blunt to fakie. Putting them mini ramp skills to use really hard.

Scott Nichols (1/2000, @F2.8, ISO200)

Well it's been about a minute I guess.

I didn't realize it had been so long since my last update here. Sorry about that folks. Either way, here's a photo of Tanner doing a switch pole jam and Scott doing a fs 180 over a trash can. Good friends. Good times.

Tanner Shay (1/1000, @F5.6, ISO200)

Scott Nichols (1/1000, @F1.8, ISO200)

Red Boys.

Tanner was the original one that threw the quickcrete up to these barriers about a year ago and since then they've been painted red, the chunks have been patched at the top, and the Mystery crew has been sessioned this place. So when the Mystery video drops and you see red barriers being backtailed, just remember Tanner did that shit months before anyone else even knew about them.

Tanner Shay (1/2000, @F1.8, ISO200)

Tanner Shay (1/2000, @F1.8, ISO200)

Posey cat.

Until last night when Posey licked my knee, I was convinced that this cat hated me. I guess I was wrong. She's a cutie though, right?

Posey Cat (1/30, @F1.8, ISO200)