4x5's and manipulated images

Here are some images made using several different techniques.   Eventually I want to be able to find a better way of putting up images then taking shots of them with a camera.

Photo project, "Greek myth"

Since I do not have a scanner,  I have used my digital camera to take pictures of prints that I made using a film camera and darkroom printing. The project is a modern interpretation of the greek myth of Icarus.

Trapped in the everyday

A reason to escape

The first flight

Falling on deaf ears

To close to the sun

Gravity takes hold

A drawing

Drew this in my Oceanography class.... we happened to be talking about precipitation so I put my own spin on it...

scenic shots

Here's a collection of shots I took at different locales,

whenever i see some big dramatic horizon i like to bust out the camera

took these at some temples in china

Took this at the coast in Tijuana.

Hope again

              Hope again

So come with me

Lets make this the life

We always wanted it to be

Holding hands and writing letters

Carving hearts on a tree

Cause I see a part of you

In every person that I meet

Your face haunts me every night

I walk these city streets

And the greatest pain

Is not knowing 

That it's you I'm without

It's fearing i've been forgotten

By someone I can't forget about

And every time I let those memories fade for a while

I see something that reminds me of you

And how your would make me smile

And my mind fears the pain again 

So it keeps pushing them away

But my heart fights back and it's stronger

because it believes you'll come back someday

Overboard

                                                     Overboard

Well i'm sorry babe that you missed me

And I ignored all the goodbyes you kissed me

But baby you know I know that look in your eyes

Oh and it's hard to take you seriously 

When you're burning oh so furiously

So lets just skip the truth baby

And get right down to the lies

Well if I love you and you love me

Then what with all this conspiracy 

Why are we stuck to the wall

Hiding there like flies

So lets set the record straight my dear

Am I the only man that you see here

Or am I just another one of the guys

Oh babe you're driving me insane

If like a lifeboat in a hurricane 

struggling to keep my head above

But if there's room on your ship for a first mate

Then hell girl don't you wait

take the dive, come on take a chance on love

The Breach

                                                                    The Breach

The walls are going up again

Just like the time before

Haven't seen your face in so long

Don't really want to anymore

But I can not forget

Though babe, you know I try

To remember life before you

Before you made me cry

And no matter what I say

And no matter what I do

You still act like your alone

When I'm right here next to you

And babe if this is how it ends

If this is what our futures have in store

Then go on now and take it back

I don't want it anymore

You're still a bruise on my heart

And I'm still waiting, for the healing to start

Seems like yesterday, that I held you in my hand

But I watched you fall through the cracks like sand

And I know I'm partly to blame

For believing you could ever love me the same

Did you even care how I would feel

Or was I just another heart to steal

And babe if this is how it ends

If this is what our futures have in store

Then go on now and take it back

I don't want it anymore

Perfect World

                                                                     Perfect World

As these stone angels stare

Lifeless gaze at our despair

A stabbing pain held till tomorrow

Let your children reap the sorrow

For if every souls the same

Will he hear them call our names

Tell me how many more must fall

Till your statues hear the call

My conscience lost

My soul despairs

Where were you when

Your saints where never there

Plaster eyes watch us scramble

Trampling the meek

To rise up priests with rifles

With sights set on the weak

If this is the dream realized

If this is where our journey ends

then I don't know

But I refuse to go

One more mile around the bend

Till I see Those Sails

                      Till I See Those Sails

Been to many days

since I've seen your face

been waiting here

same old place

so many miles

an ocean away

I know i'll see

those sails one day

If I wait there would you find me

underneath the willow tree

with your picture in a locket

I will look out to the sea

I will take your hand 

things will be just like before

but till that day I wait for you

there on distant shores

If I leave here will you miss me

or is it to late for me

has your soul forever surrendered

its depths unto the sea

If I leave this place

will it be just like before

is there a chance ill see your face again

there on distant shores

At My Door

                                                     At My Door

Sometimes I find myself wanting

To know how you're dealing

With being all alone

And wondering, just how you're feeling

knowing that you have

No place to call your home

Well If I see you standing there

Knocking at my door

I'll open it and let you in

Just like the time before

But you and me babe we both know

That we can't do this anymore

But you keep on come a knocking at my door

If I see you standing there

Waiting on the shore

I'll brave that storm

And run to you

Just like the time before

Well I must say 

That I don't know

What our futures have in store

But I know you'll come a knocking

Knocking at my door

Not one more word

                                                                   Not One More Word

Now baby the neighbors might here us

But you could care less

In your mind your alone

like a message on a phone

you're distant, disconnected

your seclusion perfected

clinging to anything

that makes you feel protected

leave all all alone

distant sirens calling, calling our names

remind us of the fire we put out long ago

The more things change the more we like to blame

the second hand is ticking it's time to go

We love

we cry

we hate

we lie

we live 

we die

we try and try

All out medicines and treatments

in the end it's all useless 

like treating a headache with suicide

our efforts are fruitless

give me the antidote for this cure

give me a lock for this key

give me a river to run through

this canyon in me

gona start posting songs I wrote like back when i was doing music and stuff

Pretty lies and open eyes~

Hey there babe you know that I love running

but your to fast for me now

all these endless conversations

project our declarations 

that were just not ready somehow

and it was then that i knew

as I stared at my shoes

that your face was not a mask at all

but that you just never knew

just whose point of view

to take with you as you fall

And I know babe that you're trying

but thats just not the point anymore

it's the pain that hurts me still

and the blood that you have spilled

when took my heart and left it on your floor

I just can't do this anymore

And I know you'll do just fine

girl like you can have any guy

But he could never be me

we both know what could never be

I guess i was to blind see 

your beautiful conspiracy

But babe the blind now see

yeah the blind now see