Imma Leaving Again!! Happy 100th Post!! (I'm pretty sure)

I'm leaving momentarily on another adventure. The plans are sketchy at best. My friend's keep asking when I'll be back, but I honestly do not know. So fare the plan is to take the overnight express train to Delhi, arriving Saturday morning. I will meet up with my friend Carrie and stay with her friend for the night. A few more people are flying in Sunday afternoon and we are catching a train to Jammu in Kashmir. We will spend some amount of time in Srinagar and the surrounding areas while waiting for the highway to Leh, Ladakh to open (It was closed recently because of mud slides). We may go for a trek in the high deserts (well over 11,000ft up) and I might get some exhausting high elevation bouldering in. At this point anything resembling a plan ends. I'm leaving the group and finding my own way back to Mumbai, hopefully through Mussoorie so I can see the family I stayed with in 2007 and another friend doing a Hindi course there.

I have no expectations for this trip, so...well, let it begin. See you guys sometime in June.

Michelle

While I was home a friend asked me to do some head shots for her. She's a doctoral student for Performance Violin at the Jacobs School of Music. Needless to say she is quite talented. Our schedules finally lined up on the Saturday before I left. We had a good time shooting around the Union on the IU campus. 


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The Conrad Hotel

The Conrad is a beautiful five star hotel in downtown Indianapolis. A friend of mine connected me with the Marketing Manager at the hotel, and she welcomed me to shoot around their beautiful property. I showed up with all of my lights and no assistant, clumsily moving everything around in a luggage cart. My friend, Alison, called and asked if I still needed help and, thankfully, she came down to lend a much needed hand.

I love photographing people, so in many of these shots I wish I could have used a model. The environments are so inviting and someone feels distinctly missing. But the shoot was a great exercise for me in expanding my interior portfolio.







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Drive-by Shooting

I had spent my entire morning shooting at a five star hotel and was on my way to a friend's party on the north side of Indianapolis. On I-65N I passed this skate park, so I took the nearest exit and found my way back to it, passing through Marian University's campus. I'm glad that I stopped. I enjoy unplanned shooting like this. Most shots are with my 16mm and a flash fill, but the closer ones toward the end are shot with my 50mm at f/1.4.





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Allie

Last week I made a journey around Indiana to see several of my friends before I left for India. It was great connecting with friends I had not seen in years. I hadn't seen Allie in probably over five years, but I had suggested doing a shoot together a while back. We went out in Ft. Wayne, IN looking for a good location to shoot. I lost the sun a little faster than I anticipated so I did more shots with flash than I intended, but I like the results.



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Flying Through the Blue Skies

Yesterday my dad dropped me off in Cincinnati with all of my bags for heading back to India. I planned on staying with my good friends, Casey and Jeremiah, before flying out the next day. When Jeremiah came to pick me up he asked, "Why are there so many expensive cars in the parking lot here? Oh, I guess this is an expensive hobby." He met me at Lunken Municipal Airport where my dad had dropped me before taking off again in his recently restored French trainer four-seater airplane. My dad has an expensive hobby.

I realized I've never taken very many photos of my dad or his planes, so I took this opportunity to document this flight. This plane is temporary, at least until he gets his RV-10 kit plane up and running. He has probably another 2 years work to put into it before its done.


My dad, the pilot.


Flying over Lake Monroe.




I would love to do a photo study on clouds as seen on their level.


The Skyline of Cincinnati in the distance.


The Final Approach.

Leaving Again

I'm packing again. This is getting to be the norm I guess. I am leaving my home this morning and flying out of Cincinnati tomorrow afternoon. It's been a while since I've updated. I've been busy traveling around and seeing friends. I've been shooting a lot, but haven't had much time to edit. Once I get back into my routine in India I'll have some editing time and get things updated on here. Be well, my friends.