erika joan.

Nica

2012-01-23T13:17:00.002-05:00

Village of Subtiaba, Nicaragua. 2009.

more lensbaby fun.

2011-12-05T15:59:00.003-05:00

mina.

john.

branded.

2011-12-05T14:08:00.003-05:00

this was fun! Diego Lopez was kind enough to take photos for me.

Honey Bee

2011-11-30T00:13:00.002-05:00

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2011-11-29T16:12:00.004-05:00

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2011-11-29T16:09:00.003-05:00

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2011-11-29T16:07:00.001-05:00

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2011-11-29T16:05:00.002-05:00

Scanner finally works!

2011-11-09T17:36:00.003-05:00

We finally got this negative scanner system that George bought up and running. Its a complicated process but it seems to work really well, for a home flatbed scanner.
Here are some photos of the sky on the Fourth of July, which if you remember was INSANE...

BAAAHHHHahahahahaha

2011-10-03T02:17:00.003-04:00

this happened yesterday. thanks to my dad!

from NYTimes Photo Blog

2011-09-14T17:09:00.006-04:00

A couple images I liked from the New York Times Lens Blog

I've always loved Eugene Richards' photography and fortunately, in memory of 9.11, the blog posted a little montage of some beautiful images he (and possibly his wife) took to capture the historic event: Reminiscence: ‘Stepping Through the Ashes’

4th of july.

2011-08-16T00:59:00.002-04:00

dusty and dirty

woof.

2011-05-04T18:46:00.003-04:00

i woke up last night at 3:25 am thinking i felt the earth shake from a bomb.

heeerrrreeeee we go, subconscious.

Mccarren Park

2011-04-29T16:41:00.002-04:00

corrupt holga contact sheets are fun.

George and the Camels

2011-04-29T16:11:00.001-04:00

ha ha ha holga

2011-04-29T13:35:00.004-04:00

thanks to Mina for my birthday gift last year that I've finally got around to using (after I forgot my film at the lab for about six months. oops)!

Nica.

2011-03-24T16:30:00.003-04:00

This work is taking me forever. My own fault.

burning of the greens.

2011-01-17T16:45:00.007-05:00

blizzard at Grand Army Plaza

2011-01-12T16:02:00.001-05:00

New Zealand 03: SHEEPSIES

2010-12-02T11:53:00.004-05:00

sheepy sheep sheep.

New Zealand 02

2010-12-02T11:28:00.010-05:00

These are better. Quality, at least.

These are all from Hawke's Bay, NZ - just south of Napier:

I took a walk at sunset:

KeriKeri, NZ:

New Zealand 01

2010-12-02T11:21:00.004-05:00

These are some really terrible quality photos hastily taken with my dinky point and shoot (which was halfway broken at the time).

Penn.

2010-11-20T22:24:00.005-05:00

nowhere in particular, MD, DE, & PA

2010-11-20T13:21:00.002-05:00

2010-11-20T00:59:00.001-05:00

twilight. andy and george.

2010-11-18T12:25:00.001-05:00

Dewey Beach, Delaware 8.10

this is me bragging.

2009-03-18T23:36:00.006-04:00

So back in January, George and I went to Magnum's book party at the Aperture Gallery. Thanks to my awesome teacher, Robert Stevens, I was able to meet so many awesome photographers within Magnum. I also got to view Cartier-Bresson's widow walking around. That was pretty cool, despite the fact that I'm not a big Cartier-Bresson fan.

My friend, Aaron, found this on flickr. It's me listening to Bruce Gilden tell a story. That's Martin Parr on the right. oh yeaaaa.

2009-03-02T00:48:00.001-05:00

everything is good. pretty darn good.

i really really really want to learn swedish.

the day has come!

2008-10-27T21:40:00.000-04:00

p.s. www.erikaengstrom.com

still a few kinks to work out, but its pretty much done. finally.

Kristin, Jay, and Keli.

2008-10-27T21:11:00.006-04:00

here's some photos i shot of pretty much the most adorable family in the entire world for a denim ad assignment i shot for a class:

jpegs always look awful on here. and everywhere. blast.

happy birthday all around!

2008-10-14T16:53:00.002-04:00

Went to the Diesel XXX Dirty Thirty party on saturday.

It was pure chaos.

It was also Corinne's birthday!!

aliens!

2008-10-01T22:39:00.006-04:00

So about a month and a half ago I had a mole removed on my chest for a biopsy. About three weeks later I started to develop what I thought was a pimple on the left side of my neck. After unsuccessfully popping it, it grew bigger and harder, and once I saw the black color on the inside of it, I started to realize this was not a pimple.

So I then concluded that aliens were growing inside of me.

I contemplated going to the emergency room, but since I had an return appointment at the dermatologist the following Tuesday, I figured I'd just wait.

I did however, document the little fucker.

This is how it looked a majority of the time (underneath a band-aid of course!):

This is the night before it exploded:

and this is right after it exploded:

When I went to the dermatologist that Tuesday, only to have four more moles removed, he told me it was an infection from the first biopsy. Wonderful. But he put me on antibiotics so hopefully it won't happen again.

bottom line - no aliens.!

website.

2008-09-30T17:37:00.002-04:00

should be up sometime this weekend. !!!!!!!

go see Michal Chelbin's show in Chelsea at Andrea Meislin Gallery

or at least visit her website.

Sunday Best.

2008-09-23T00:03:00.005-04:00

More like Monday.

babe.

I have a sty.

2008-09-09T21:54:00.002-04:00

and it makes me want to gouge my eye out.

these are from Texas this summer:

I'm on a roll.

more to come. YAY!

Estephany.

2008-09-09T17:17:00.002-04:00

She's my model.

and I'm hers.

Graegin.com

2008-08-29T03:17:00.005-04:00

Please check out my friend Stephanie's website.

Her work is both technically and aesthetically beautiful. It arouses a kind of nostalgia for the innocent, adventurous times in childhood. or at least it does for me.

She's also an awesome girl, and i kind of miss her a lot.

goblin boomps.

2008-07-24T17:11:00.004-04:00

my first tattoo should that day ever come:

...

2008-07-10T20:42:00.003-04:00

i just dont know what to do with my free time anymore.

count down.

2008-06-17T22:20:00.002-04:00

Well, today I saw, and pet, a dachshund. So that was good.

here is my favorite photo of my dad circa 1970 ish...

he's so handsome isn't he?

smithtown.

2008-06-14T21:43:00.004-04:00

I'ts ridiculous how much I sometimes miss high school, and Smithtown.

especially in the summertime.

the sky is, apparently, on fire.

2007-11-02T22:37:00.004-04:00

Good evening.

So this is my first post with Blogger. Thought I'd give it a shot considering I like to blog but my old blog was irritating and getting to the point where it reminds me of my past. So it's time for a change as well as a new beginning.

That's pretty much how I've been feeling about everything in my life lately. A New Beginning. With school, and friends, and well, everything. "Friends" is the main reason. It takes hurtful event after hurtful event for me to realize that certain people are just not worth my time anymore. I get to frustrated and worked up over it so screw it.

I live in Brooklyn now which is far away from my past, maybe not geographically but, most importantly, mentally. I have good friends here to keep me occupied on the lonely aspect, even though I do not get lonely very often. I'm easily content with being alone, and most times prefer it. I also have my school work which takes up most of my free time, as well as my part time job, an oh so proud employee of that greedy coorporation retail business known as Barnes & Noble.

Well I've already written more than intended. I guess that just proves how much goes on in my head. Though I am...not bored...but unoccupied tonight. While the boyfriend and his roommates are in Astoria at band practice, I, the girlfriend, get to enjoy a stress free evening at his apartment enjoying his cable TV and computer, both of which I lack at my place.

Oh, but I've discovered that Young Frankenstein is playing on TV Land. I swear if I was of the same age, and ever met him, I would probably try and pursue marriage with Gene Wilder. Which reminds me, I've recently invested in Haunted Honeymoon, probably my favorite movie of all time.

If you've never seen it, I recommend that you do.

I think I'm going to try and write less from now on..