Landscapes from the road

After driving 8 days and 3,721 miles I had one of the best experiences of my life. Just me, my wife, my dog and the road. Next time we do a trip like this we have to take double the time, spending a free day in every place we stop, but I think even if you spend weeks on a trip like this you would always wish you had more time.

So here's the last group of pictures from our move/road trip from the east coast to the west coast. Most of the photos I made were landscapes and I am really happy with a few of them. I've also glad to have sit on these the longest because I needed to edit them down a bit. I'd like to make a good edit of all the photos from the trip and work them into some kind of series. Maybe I'll come back to them in a few weeks to re-edit and do some final retouching to them. Thanks to everyone on all the feedback from the other posting.



Ohio rest stop.
2009







Omaha grocery parking lot.
2009







Playground at a state park in Kansas.
2009









Car grave yard in Kansas.
2009








Dry river bed in Pueblo, CO.
2009








Gondola ride, Monarch Pass, CO.
2009








Radio and weather equipment, Monarch Pass, CO.
2009









Motorcycle tourists at Arches National Park, UT
2009









Forest fires and power lines, UT
2009

Portraits from the road

Here are some of the people we encountered on the road. Only Dylan and Elaine are are people that I knew, the rest strangers. Mostly people were really cool with me shooting them.



Teenagers hanging out in the park.
Pittsburgh, PA 2009








We stayed at Dyland and Elaine's the night after we left NY. They got this massive house in Pittsburgh that they are doing all of the renovations themselves. They have a blog about the progress here. Dylan is an amazing photographer, you can see his work here and Elaine is an amazing writer, see her work here.

Dylan and Elaine Vitone at their new home.
Pittsburgh, PA 2009









Gas attendant girl filling the paper towel holders.
Iowa 2009










Teenagers waiting for friends.
Omaha, NE 2009











Teenager posing for a portrait.
Omaha, NE 2009








Woman taking her puppy for a walk.
Kansas 2009

Portraits of Kate from the road

Editing down my pictures from the road trip has been tough so I decided to break them down into sections. Here several of my wife Kate. Timing is perfect of a post of my favorite person to photograph, its our 2nd anniversary on Tuesday the 8th of Sept.


with Shug
Pittsburgh, PA






Ohio







Nebraska








Kansas







with Shug
Monarch Pass, CO









Arches National Park, UT






Lanscapes and other portraits from the road coming soon!

Pictures not from the road trip

So most know and some might still not that my wife and I have relocated to LA. I've been trying to get a second to do a little post that we were going to be moving out here and that we were going to be doing a little road trip but things have been so crazy the past 3 weeks. I plan on doing a good post with my favorite photos from the road trip, but I'm still editing a bit so as for now here are a couple of pictures I made just before we left and a few that I made since we got here.

Here are two from my last days in MA:


Near downtown Newburyport, MA 2009







Ferry Road
Salisbury, MA 2009





Here are a few from the four days in NYC before we left for the road trip to LA:



Everett Miessner, friend and fellow photographer
Brooklyn, NY 2009
Check out Everett's work here.








Kate
Washington Square Park, NYC 2009







My brother Derek
Greenwich Village, NYC 2009
Derek just bought a Canon 5D and has been doing some cool video work with it. Check it out on his blog.






So we got to LA this past Thursday night and I had to work the next morning with my good friend Hugh Lippe. The last time we were in LA together he was still assisting, I had made a previous blog post about that trip. It's really funny to look back on that post and to think that I am living here now. Hugh has recently made the jump to shooting and I'm really stoked for him. He was in town to shoot a look book for LA based designer Kimberly Ovitz. It was a long long day but good times were had. Kim was super cool as well as the crew. Check out Hugh's work here.




Hugh Lippe
LA, CA 2009






Georgine Ratelband design intern
LA, CA 2009







Old sports car on a ranch
Ojai, CA 2009









Crystal Cooper, actress and assistant make up artists
Ojai, CA 2009








I hope to get an edit up from the road trip this week. Also, the latest Inc. magazine has a portrait I shot.

A town hall meeting...

I was in the area so I went up to Portsmouth, NH yesterday to check out the scene around the President's town hall meeting at the local high school. I was drawn more to the people against health care reform, I don't consider myself a photojournalist so I'm not trying to depict any kind of skew by photographing them more than the other side, they just happened to be more interesting looking to me.
It was a very frustrating scene. Both sides yelled things at each other that really neither sides cares about. So no one was going to convince either side of anything.
I was hoping to see the President, but I didn't. To be honest, the whole experience kind of bummed me out.





Sticker








Family of protesters









Elderly protester









Line to get into the event









Younger protesters









A protester and his dog









Protest signs








Protester with neon green sign








Health care reform supporter with pipe








Health care reform supporters' resting spot







Protester with bull horn

Wandering...

Children's playground
Chelsea, NYC 2009







Pigeons and public housing
Chelsea, NYC 2009










West 4th street basketball and handball courts
The Village, NYC 2009







A man cleaning the west 4th street basketball and handball courts
The Village, NYC 2009









Elephant ear plant at my step dad's apartment
NY, NY 2009












Kate in between words
Salisbury Beach, MA 2009








BMX Kids out for a day in Boston
Boston, MA 2009








Dirty subway fan
Boston, MA 2009









Tossed away flowers
Queens, NY 2009









A community garden
Brooklyn, NY 2009








Rebecca hanging out in Addie's backyard
Brooklyn, NY 2009








Joey, Addie's super
Brooklyn, NY 2009










Addie's cat Jake
Brooklyn, NY 2009









Entrance to LaGuardia Airport
Queens, NY 2009








Flower bush and fence
Queens, NY 2009









Peach trees 1
Newbury, MA 2009









Peach trees 2
Newbury, MA 2009





I uploaded all these to flickr first, seemed to be a bit faster and I can organize their order better. Please let me know if this there is any complaints. Also, I think I'm going to start editing down a bit more.

Sound

3 Little Birds performed by unknown duo
125th St. platform for of the 4, 5, 6 train.
Just about everyone was smiling while waiting for the train.



I want to start putting up some sound bites here, maybe include them with some photos.