Year in Review: people

2011 is freshly over, so in the spirit of Scott Strazzante, i have decided to throw together a few blog posts in which i review 2011 and the photography that it held.

This is where i conclude the series. These are all reasonably straightforward portraits--the faces of the portraited carry the pictures, and the pictures will tend to be more descriptive of the person than the location.

Amber McKinney is stopped at a stoplight. A random stranger glanced up at my camera during CU's 420 chaos. Kirsten Lackey graduated and played with balloons. Nick came to Boulder and hiked in the snow with me. i took pictures of myself on Mount Sanitas, which i hiked up one evening on a whim because i was bored. Tao Lin stopped frisbeeing for long enough to smile. John Stewart was illuminated by light from my window. Sam Day displayed his armpit hair. Colin Stringer multitasked. Brent Hodge glowed. Colin Stringer got excited. Brent Hodge got thoughtful. Colin Stringer laughed. Robert Niederriter hiked at Chatauqua. Eliana Brown went camping at Lake Arcadia. Ayelen and Tytus Brown played in the flowers. i grew a stachecicle on Mount Sanitas. Nick Williams got cold in the foothills, and i only provided him with lukewarm chocolate rather than hot chocolate. Tye Brown was thoughtful, a month before destroying his living room. Brent Hodge ate a light bulb. Stephen Buerger took up shepherdry in the dark corners of the Andes. Kyle Williams and Sally Schupack liked spending time with me so much that they decided to marry each other as an excuse to make me fly back to Oklahoma in a few months. Nick went for a hike with the other beers, and then left this cap in Oklahoma. Then he chopped up wood in a very thoughtful manner.

That is everything that happened in 2011.



















































2011 was a really great year for me photographically. i took over 13,000 pictures, which is more than i had ever taken in a year before. Also, the pictures that i took were well-distributed over the course of the year--i took at least 1,000 every month after March (except for October, in which i took only 800). i experimented with some new ideas (panoramas, more backlit portraits, and more night photography, for example), and a i spent $150 a new lens that i love.

i think that 2012 has the potential to be even better. i am significantly more comfortable in Boulder than i have been yet. Pending a few grants, i will be spending two months in rural Uganda. i will be shooting a wedding, and possibly two. Hopefully i'm additionally able to do some nice hiking, and possibly at least a backpacking trip or two.