The Tattoo

I have been meaning to post this for a long time now,as the year is coming to an end I feel the pressure to get all those little to do's of my list.

When I was in Miami recently on a shoot.I got a Tattoo. I had been planing this for a while and put a lot of thought into it.I have always loved the work of Helmut Newton & have one of his prints hanging in my house.

After weeks of going through as many of his images I finally narrowed it down to his iconic image for French Vogue taken in 1975.

I found an amazing Tattoo Artist  called "Pride" who had some amazing work as well as many name clients.

Here are the picture's.

Shane's work is in APASF Something Personal Exhibition 2008.

I recently found out that I got two of my images accepted into this show.

If you are in San Francisco & free that night please come by.

You can get in free by printing an invitation here. 

Some Miami Work.

Next stop Miami.

Off to Miami tomorrow for 10 days of shooting.

I will try and post when I am down there.

Bye.

Where did Tat's Tattoo's go!!!!!!!

When I was shooting on the SS JEREMAIH O'BRIEN recently. (see post below).

I met a gentlemen that worked there who is in his 70's and is covered head to toe  in tattoo's.

I asked him if he would sit for me for a TinType session. 

Well it was pretty crazy as we started to develop the first few plates you could not help but notice that all his tattoo's disappeared when shooting only with the Tin's.

I discovered that then plates are sensitive to blue & did pick up the blue ink on his Tat's.

He was even more shocked as he had not seen himself without tattoo's for some years.

Letter From Client.

Its very nice to get one of these.

Working on Sunday!!!!

Doing some editing/photoshop work today on a personal shoot from last week.

We got access to shoot on the SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN.

Got many many great shots from that day which slows down the editing.

But that's a good thing.

More Tin Types

This is an outake from a TinType test I shot last Friday.

I had just asked the model to sit in while we did some tests but its one of my favorites from the day.

Something I am working on!!!!!!!

Vacation

Just got back from a vacation with the family down in La Paz BCS Mexico.

When I was on the beach I ran into a bunch of my Mexican Blog fans.

After a few pacifico's we got together fro a photo.

Moving Forward

After a very motivating weekend.

I have being moving forward at a steady pace.

Something before I was delaying for a while but today I am sending out my new promo to a few folks.And plenty more to follow.

Breaking Boards

Started a four day Tony Robbins  seminar today.

It was definitely a fun & very motivating day.

When you have your own business I think any kind of self motivation is great.

The highlight was definitely at the end when I got my chance to break through a 1 inch wooden board with the soundtrack to Rocky, Eye of the Tiger playing very f*&king loud in the background.

New Work

Lake Tahoe

Went for a mini break to Lake Tahoe with the family.

Good Times.

We also visited Nevada City, beautiful old americana town in the mountains.

Great place to go back and shoot in one day.

Back in the Bay

Its always great to come home to San Francisco.

Attached are a few pictures of the house we were shooting in.

The whole shoot went great & I will share some pictures soon.

Flying to Chicago

On the road toady to Chicago where I will be shooting some fashion for Christmas time.

Found out my trusty Pelican camera case that I have flown with for the last 4 years is no longer eligible to fit in the overhead.Did not give in cameras stayed with me.Will buy a new one when I get back to San Francisco.

My Daily Favorite Blogs.

I talked a little last night on the importance about blogs.

As promised here is a list of the ones I check out daily.

Photo Editor

Whats the Jackanory

Chase Jarvis

A Flower A Day

Perou

Thomas Broening

Apple Talk Last Night

My Lecture Last Night in the Apple store was hugh success.

Thanks you to everybody that came.

It was full house.This picture is about 10 mins before I started.

Shane on APPLE'S website!!!

I am giving on talk about my work on Monday July 7th @ Apple Store in San Francisco.

Tin Types

This is part of a new series of work using the Tin Type process.

I will be adding more here and to my web site very soon.

Victoria Springs, Nebraska

Thought this would be good to start my postings.

I was on a shoot in a small town called Broken Bow, Nebraska

I had finished at about 5pm and took a drive using my GPS & found this cool little picnic spot with no one around.The light was just at the magic time.