If my friend were on the fence about hiring Ash I would tell them this: Ash makes it SO easy. Just do it because you’re not going to get a better experience creating art. She’s amazing.
Read MoreThere’s something portal about the feeling of, “we’re done”. Something like a venting of the pressure of initial ideas or expectations that move out the obvious making way for the less obvious, the flow. Like everything up to that point was summoning what we’re actually there to do.
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Children’s Portraits with Ash are back! A low-stress portrait experience for you and your kids.
Read MoreOne Sunday afternoon the river came to us.
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Jon gifted me a box of 10 rolls of expired Delta 3200 film for my birthday and I had a feeling I’d like it…
With a few minutes left in our session and a roll already shot I asked Janessa if I could shoot something a bit more experimental. Maybe nothing would turn out but maybe it would…
When I shoot film, I shoot more.
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I’ve been craving something a bit more nimble, more responsive than my so-slow-they-forget-me Rolleiflex, something not square, something more intuitive…
Read MoreA collection of yin yang nature iterations available for print purchase.
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Aesthetic pics yes, but also the ascetic micro of letting oneself love, rich and dripping like lobster tails in oily red sauce and yucca cooked over pork fat fires, vegetarians salivating. To speak truth through pyramids, to watch and be watched, to let the tobacco bury you- to sing and dance and wear red.
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I was obsessed with her, craning my neck as we flew by her. This is “Primavera” by Raphael San Juan. It’s 26’ tall and was made of reclaimed found metal as a tribute to the sensuality and strength of Cuban women.
Film Notes:
During my first 2022 visit to Havana with Jon Canlas and The Film School Road Trip Matthew and I shot a lot of film. Having shot digital images almost exclusively whilst being intrigued and intimidated by film, our trip offered a deep dive into film. 3 days of shooting in the rich visual landscape of Havana and Vinales along with Jon’s break-neck shooting pace offered an opportunity in an inspiring, stimulating set and setting to experiment with film, settings, cameras, lenses, etc.
In post-processing I realized my Bronica had a focusing problem leading to many many near-misses where in-camera I’d seen sharp, beautifully composed images. Painful learning costs are the way and actually give these fresh, sharp, beauties of this sculpture a BINGO precious feel.
Film: Kodak Gold box rated pushed 1 stop in developing
Development & scanning: Standard Scans via The Find Lab on the Noritsu scanner
…and the way the light hits her like it hits water is just one of them.
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We made our way up to Utah’s Snowbasin on opening day when the mountains were transformed to one of Sadie’s imagined snowy scenes and the location and togetherness made for a laid-back family portrait session adventure on film
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Polaroid magic from Seen with Stacie. The scene- new moon Aquarius in January’s freeze. The elements- wood, water, air, fire, metal, women, laughter. “Tell me, my love, do you feel right? Do you feel charmed?”
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And also the Rolleiflex can be a pain in the ass of immediacy/fluidity. Yeah yeah not for everyone. Jon Canlas shoots this like a goddamned disposable camera in the 90s. But for me, its confounding nuances are a kind of entity that sets me on edge in flow with an obvious presence whispering through the scene as I fumble, grapple, focus, and coax its bassakward screen to get my composition right.
Read MoreThe force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.
-Dylan Thomas
Inversion polluted Salt Lake offered surrealist inspiration for medium format portraits.
Read MoreSnowy drive, hot drinks, a winter walk to the meadow with Gygi. A lil talking, a lil crying, a little screaming in the trees.
These last few years Gygi and I have both lost our parents, connected already, we’ve seen each other deeper as we’ve stumbled at the threshhold of death and experienced the strange rebirth that has come in its wake. Her deep presence. Her deep love of life. The way she inspires me to be. I love you Gygi.
Film notes:
Very foggy, snowy day- first snow. Shot rated at 200 pushed a stop on the Rolleiflex 6001.
Film notes:
Camera: Rolleiflex 6001 w 80 mm lens
Film: Portra 800 rated at 200 pushed 1 stop in development. So that means the ISO is set to 200 and then in development you do this THIS which adds a dollar to the cost. WORTH IT.
Lab: Standard scans at The Find Lab Scan with borders on Frontier
Modern dancers and choreographer team Haleigh Larmer & Megan O’Brien at Little Sahara State Park, Utah
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