Maple Canyon

A few weeks ago a few friends and I packed up our cars and headed South-ish to Maple Canyon.  The plan, camp, climb, and shoot beer cans with a BB gun.  Good times.  Here are a few photos I took with my 35mm. 

Street Perspective.

I have recently become obsessed with the idea of how we as a race create these monstrous structures to house us, conduct business, enjoy ourselves, etc, etc. These structures are often sterile, rigid, and loaded with repetition. We create these overwhelming structures that vastly contrast our organic shape. It is this juxtaposition of rigid structures and organic shapes that has consumed me. I want to portray how we as people fit into these concrete jungles that we call cities. These shots are taken from a pedestrian perspective to retain objectivity. Enjoy

More New York.

A tour across America: New York.

Here are a few more images from our adventure across America. Got to spend some time with my older sisters, Miri & Nami. Who are currently attending Princeton and Parsons. This visit was especially exciting, because we were able to attend the Daily show, which was excellent.

In transit

This past summer a few friends and I embarked on a cross country road trip. The goal, bring my friend, Dave's truck back to Utah. We started in Connecticut and made our way to New York, Chicago, Boulder, and a few other cities in between. However, before we did all this, I had to get to Connecticut. Upon departing Salt Lake City I encountered a few issues with my connecting flights. After a long delay, I found myself in Detroit having to spend the night. Which was interesting, to say the least. The next morning I hoped on my flight to Connecticut. While waiting for my friends to pick me up at the airport I had an interesting little experience. Since I had an hour or so to kill before my friends arrived, I started to take some photos. After 20 minutes or so, I was promptly surrounded by multiple airport marshals who immediately began to question me about my intentions. After 10-15 minutes of explaining myself, they let me go. Here are some of the photos that the marshals were questioning me about.

The food.

I mentioned earlier that we ate a ton of good food on our week excursion. Let me rephrase that, our trip revolved around food. We went to numerous seafood, Persian, and Asian restaurants and we would even go an hour out of our way to go to certain restaurants, it was worth it. Neptune's Net featured in the first fast and the furious was one of those restaurants. The fish and shrimp is amazing. Enough said.

The uglier side of Santa Monica.

The beach is quite pretty and all, but as you know there's an uglier side to Santa Monica. Construction, litter, and hobos riddle the streets, but there is something strangely beautiful about it.

Santa Monica Pier

Filled with street merchants, restaurants, and even a small amusement park Santa Monica pier is such a distinct pier that you can't not take pictures of it. Regardless of the time whether it be early or fairly late the atmosphere on that pier is always buzzing, its great. Throughout the entire week I was taking photos of the pier constantly. I met plenty of people and made good friends with a parakeet who was quite fond of my camera. I also came to the conclusion that the pier along with the entire area of L.A. just looks better in black and white.