Another shot from the South Premium outlet mall visit in March.

I don’t think this is exactly the prime intention of the assignment, but the OTP crew is pretty loose with the words anyways. This first one came while wandering around Durango High after the Nevada Democratic Caucus, and the second was an ominous flash of light in the bathroom.

Most anywhere else it would be hard to get a summertime shot in March, but in Vegas, I just went outside. Not much different in September… though the weather is cooling down to the lovely high nineties.

give her a wide angle lens, stop it down and set it to hyperfocal.

Happy Valentines!

A few weeks ago we were wandering around Glazier’s supermarket and ended up taking a couple photos at the greeting card aisle. In other related news, I can’t believe its been 3 years since we left Houston and celebrated valentines day eating packaged salad, sitting on the parking lot of Buc-ee’s.

From the kitchen.

(and it actually seems to be the very last shot I took all year…though the post processing was done in 2016…and then backdated to 2015! The magic of the internet!)

Had fun with the baby’s o-ball trying to capture gravity.

The OTP assignment this week was “Intersection”. As an architect I see intersecting lines everywhere I turn around so it was almost like shooting fish in the barrel. I’m thinking about making it a longer series, but I need to finish my 100 slices of “Imperfect Solids” first.

In honor of David Bowie, the assignment of the week was “Character”. I don’t have much of anything to say about the rock star, but the baby did have something to say about my eyewear.Movie Rings (2017)

And I had something to say about cheese….namely that if you gotta add stuff to your cheese, it can’t be very good.

I’ve been slowly going through the archives of OTP assignments so here’s one from OTP 93. My Town.

I think Las Vegas is seen as a tourist city, but really its a sunbelt suburbia with two dense entertainment districts. So to address the assignment I pulled off the side of the road on my morning commute and took this very straightforward shot with a little desert in the foreground, some casinos in the background and a whole lot of asphalt in the middle.

The thing is, there’s a lot of desert that development has hopped over in the mad expansion. So I turned around and shot this little micro-landscape.

And with the morning sun I tried to make the O’Reilly Autoparts seem somewhat dramatic.

And for the other part of my Las Vegas life, I’ve worked in Downtown my whole tenure here. So here’s a snapshot of a truly lousy park job by your’s truly while getting an espresso in the morning.