It's been a long time since I last updated the photo blog. I've been busy working on some Christmas projects including a book design for my dad. He wrote a short story about fishing with his grandpa, which included a brief history of the Ellis family settling in Medicine Lodge. Dad asked me to take the story and some old family photos to create a book.
I thought it would be fun to post some of my favorite photos from the book, a collection of Ellis family photos through the years.
This is an extension from my last post - photos of Medicine Lodge, this time in black and white. Some images are the same, just black and white versions. I also added a couple more that didn't work so well in color.
In the summer of 2009, I took a trip back home to Idaho. While there, I traveled up to Dubois with my dad. We visited the old Ellis homesteads in Medicine Lodge where my ancestors had immigrated from Wales. We stopped by a few places where I took several shots with my camera... the Lew Ellis ranch where my grandma was born, a few fishing holes, the Edie School where my Great Uncle Art rode horseback to school, and the Hoggan ranch where I used to fish with my dad and Grandpa Kator.
I took these photos over two years ago but never really looked at them until now. My dad recently wrote a short story about fishing with his Grandpa in Medicine Lodge, and he's asked me to design a book with several photos of the area. I was then reminded of the images I took on my last summer trip to Dubois, and went searching through the files on my laptop to rediscover them. So, here they are - color corrected, touched up, and processed. I created black and white versions as well. Look for these in my next post.
Last night, I walked around Richmond and took photos of shop windows. Originally, I thought I would find uniquely lit beautiful products and women's fashion. Surprisingly, I felt a sense of vacancy, gloom, and eeriness. Empty shops, empty clothes, empty streets.
iamsterdam
Last April, I went on a road trip from Amsterdam to Copenhagen. I'm slowly getting through all my photos from the trip. Here's a few of my favorites so far. More to come.
