tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89360221708340619372012-02-08T13:59:16.984-08:00{Every event has a decisive moment}Alton G. Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789850986323294081noreply@blogger.comBlogger901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936022170834061937.post-67329242901089114252010-09-22T01:12:00.001-07:002010-09-22T01:13:57.858-07:00

I have decided to more or less switch blog hosting providers and have jumped ship wordpress. There are many reasons involving the switch and it's not %100 official. For now, its just what I'm feelin. Make the move yourself here www.altonrichardson.wordpress.com

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Yesterday I had the awesome oppourtunity to photograph Stephanie and Joe Moore's wedding. It was a great day filled with many family and friends. My good friend Jeff gave me a hand in the shooting and we had a great time too. I could hardly sleep last night as I recalled the images I shot. Here are a couple quick edit's for a sneak peak. Congratulations Stephanie and Joe!!!

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It seems lately, I have been taking a lot of pictures of dogs. Both for work and for leisure. Maybe it is because I don't own a dog and have never personally had any dogs. I have had dogs in the family, but they have never been "my" dog. A dog is a special bond and I have been thinking a lot about that and owning a dog in general. I know that financial I can't do it right now, nor could there be

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I'm a little late getting to the trip report but as always said, better late then never. 2 weekends ago now, 5/1-2, Rob Sharpe and I headed out to the valley for a weekend of "hard" cracks. The plan was to get me on some classics at the Cookie Cliff. Land of hard, steep, perfect cracks. RRob eyein' the Cookie from the ground.  TThe Cookie! With Butterfingers as the left noticable crack

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Sometimes I get the urge to shoot climbing. Or just to shoot, but mainly climbing. Fortunately, I'm employed at the local climbing gym here in Livermore. So I grabbed my gear, hopped in the car and drove down to the gym. I love shooting climbing with 2 lights. There is so much you can do. More is better, but 2 is perfect. I knew exactly which problem in the cave I wanted to shoot because it

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A few weeks back I accompanied a buddy of mine on a drive down to Bakersfield, Ca for a quick stop at a dog show. He is part of a kennel called Devils Den Pit Bulls that breads American Bullies. There was going to be a lot of big players in the West Coast Pit Bull kennel circle and we had some business to take care of. Dropping off dogs, picking up dogs, looking at dogs, talking about dogs. I

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You all asked for 'em. So here they are. Some of the good goods from Bishop.  Cohen working out Soul Slinger, V9. Justin working his way up Pope's Prow, V6  Nate making the long reaches of Cover Me With Flowers, V2.  Eric steps into the no falls zone while topping out Finders Fee, V9 Cohen sets up to stick the jingus pinch on Seven Spanish Angels, V6. Enjoy! -Alton

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Hello blog world! Haven't posted in a few months. Both good and bad reasons for that, but most of all I have had ample time to reflect. Reflect on my photography, my life, my climbing, this blog, yadda yadda. Anyways, I hadn't been doing much climbing when some friends and I packed up the truck and headed down to Bishop to do some good 'ole fashion Buttermilkin'! [Top] Beautiful Mt. Tom with a

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I rose early this morning to photograph the sunrise. At first I didn't know what or where I was going to shoot my I figured I'd get some coffee and let the light guide me. A few days ago it snowed in the hills around Livermore and the temperatures have been low enough to retain a decent little amount (considering the Livermore hills are between 600-800 feet give or take). I hadn't had the

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Which means time for some of this!!Eric Sanchez working a .13b somewhere in Northern Cali.

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Things are a happenin' and I'm very pysched! Many opportunities to make pictures are in the near future and ideas are brewin'. Next year is starting to look so fun as I think about what I want to be working on. In recent months I have been fighting a complete and utter shut down of creativity. I had just been climbing a lot and training and primarily focusing on that. Now of course, I hadn't

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I have been dabbling with HDR stuff lately. I have been using the automated merge to HDR function in Cs3. I need to get PhotoMatix then the real fun will begin.Anyways, I'm pretty happy with how they are turning out and am getting really excited about all the ideas that I've been getting about creating more. Here are a few recent ones taken at my good friend Bill's house up high in the Livermore

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V.R. Frames: V5 on the steep wall from Alton Richardson on Vimeo.

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I'm very psyched to have a gallery featured on Climbing.com! It is a cool feeling going onto their website and seeing my images right there. Pretty awesome!

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Last weekend in three tries Eric sent the Knobby Wall classic Keep the Muscle, Lose the Fat (5.13b). So psyched for him with this being his second .13b and the fact that he did it so quickly and effortlessly. I think that Surf Safari is in the cards for him. Keep the Muscle, Lose the Fat (5.13b), Yosemite Valley from Alton Richardson on Vimeo.

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Yup! The site has been launched. I can't even begin to describe how excited I am. It has been a long time in the making and totally worth the wait. Please give it a run through and let me know in the comments what you think! AltonRichardson.com.

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Extremely cool and exciting idea brought together by Jeremy Cowart. It's called Help-Portrait. and its all about giving pictures and not just taking them. I plan to help. What about you?

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Attention: New site coming soon! My good friend Jacob Counsell over at Pixel Lust. has been hard at work building my new site and its looking REALLY good. I don't think that my camera is good enough to make the pictures that this site needs. Think full screen. The image will be reaching every corner of your monitor. And if your monitor is too small? There is a scrolling thing set up so you can

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The best video ever!

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For issue no. 278 of Climbing Magazine a picture of mine will be featured as the Photo of the Month. I'm really psyched that they chose my picture for this next issue. Additionally, I have been doing some editing of the massive batch of images that has accumulated the last month. I'm really happy with how they are turning out so far. I have also been toying around with a different look and really

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Bachar, I never met you, I wish that I had, but I have touched the same stones that you have. I have glanced up at the same cliffs as you. And I have slept under the same skies. You will be missed. You are loved and respected and will never be forgotten. [Photo by: Blitzo]

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I wish that the valley was like this right now. Unfortunately it's as hot as Africa there and well that means climbing is done. For now. Come late August September it will be back on though so its time to train! Yesterday, Rob Sharpe and I got in one last good route. The East Buttress of Middle Cathedral. What a great route. Varied climbing, great views, possibilities for long pitches if you have

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Today my good friend justin and i went to Castle Rock State Park as we usually do on Wednesdays. the intention was for Justin to go and work the Lost Keys Traverse. I have pictures from an older post here from his first work sesh. He made pretty good work and remembered the opening sequence pretty quick and figured out the end so it all comes down to getting the far reach to a sloper to set up to

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I realized that it was kind of hard to find the post about the valley wanderings, I do suggest that you try and find it though over at supertopo.com, Ed Hartouni does a great job with all of his TR's. For those of you that are lazy here are the pictures that Ed shot. Rob Sharpe and I eyein' up a party on Bev's Tower over at The Cookie. Image by: Ed HartouniMe on P.2 of Reed's Regular Route 5.8.

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Mr. Ed Hartouni has posted a TR of some valley climbing over at SuperTopo.com that has some great pictures of his "blue list" projects and some pictures of me including a sweet product shot with a Fish gear sling. Haha. Click here:Random Wanderings. Look for the post entitled Random Wanderings in the Valley TR, its seems to not want to link the post directly.

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Re-Organized my climbing portfolio. Have a looks here..

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I finally bought a camera. Now I'm almost back up and running. I just need a cpu now. Here is a few images that I have shot since May. Justin Ancira, The Ramp Sit Start-(V5), Mortar Rock, Berkeley. Justin Ancira, Lost Keys Traverse-(V6), Castle Rock SP, SaratogaJustin Ancira, Lost Keys Traverse-(V6), Castle Rock SP, SaratogaJeff Headrick, Shaft of the Penetrator- 5.12a, Yosemite ValleyJeff

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Mt. Tom 13,652 ft. Too many things have happened for me to even properly recount everything since my last post. But I will give a short summary. Since my last post i have:-driven approx. 1600+ miles for climbing. -been in 2 states-gone to Yosemite 3x's-gone to Castle Rock 3x's-went to bishop for a week-and most recently The Arboretum twice. So to say that I have been getting out a little bit is

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A few images from a trip to Castle Rock State Park on 12/31/08Nick Woods on Yabo Roof (V5).Yabo Roof.

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The last few months have been a whirlwind flourishing with activity. Climbing, work, climbing at work, and a little more climbing round out my days currently. I have even been doing a little bit of shooting as well as getting extremely strong. I have been thinking alot about this blog and how I should run it and what I should publish on it. When it comes down to it, I am a photographer and this

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My shooting has been on a hiatus lately. I have had some opportunities lately to be able to shoot and have been the recipient of strong inspirations because of it. It feels really good to have my brain spinning again with new ideas. Now I need to get my own camera again so that I can actually be a photographer again. For now some old and new images of my two favorite things other than photography

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I haven't posted in a while and well thats because I haven't been shooting either. Just been chillin, working and climbing. School just started again and well that means I get to shoot! Today the Lady Hawks Soccer team was scrimmaging against a team that I dont know I think it was Serracaus College. The refs didnt have a roster because it was a scrimmage. I didnt really make any great images but

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Today Brendan, Lauren and I met up with Jack at Mt. Diablo. Brendan and Jack ran a couple laps on Amazing Face while Lauren hung out and I shot. Oh... And my glasses broke. Here is Brendan hold'n em all broke like for me.

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The night of the Celtics awesome victory some friends and I went to find some hoops to play on but didnt find any. So we ended up dribbling a bit instead.

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yes.-AGR

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Some of my photos from Bishop made the 8a.nu website front page. Yeah!!!

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Another photo that I missed the first go around. This time of my girl friend Lauren.

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Wen't thru my take from when I shot the JACC On-The-Spot sports photo competition. Missed this one my first go around. During the match I was shooting a D200 with a 80-200/2.8 as my main camera and a D70 with a 17-55/2.8 for a second. I didn't even give the few images that I took with the wide lens a second look when I was editing for the contest. Should have. This picture is much better then

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I feel trapped. I can't think. I know what I have to do, but I can't think about how to do it. Its wierd. I put myself in these places and situations that are difficult and yet I still feel likke I'm forced into it. Today I went to shoot a Portraiit Column (which I have not done at all lately, you can see old ones here, here, here, and here.) and I was not able to find one person. usually I'm

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Last night Lauren and I covered the LPC Dance Production "Let's Go to the Movies!"These are a few of my first edits. Click here to view more pictures from the production

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This is way to funny to not be shared!

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My new May desktop calender is up. Only 2 days late. Doing better, considering this is only my second. Please enjoy!Click here for large size-AGR

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Today, I was walking to the school cafeteria to make a picture or two from the blood drive that was going on when I walked by someone that I attended high school with. I saw him from afare and remembering how I used to be then and how I wasn't necesarily a "popular" kid I bowed my head and walked by starring at the ground. As we passed he says "Hey man!"I then turn around and pretend like I did

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I love going through old takes and finding something that was either skipped over or missed. Like this picture of my friend Larry during a hike in Sunol that he and I went on over a year ago.

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A week ago today I woke up in a tent situated just a little to close to the Buttermilks main road. A van speeding by is what initially woke me up but a towering Casey (Brendan's good friend from work) startled my eyes into full openness. After Casey meandered away I looked left and could see the famous Birthday boulder very clearly. Past that was the boulder field holding such gems as Stained

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Buttermilkin' It

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Had to shoot the lead art for this weeks issue of the Express Student Newspaper about for a story about turning LPC into a non-smoking campus. Lauren and I posted up a one of the more popular "smoking booths" and waited for about a half an hour for Alex to show up. He was actually going to bum a cigarette from me. Worked out perfect. F.Y.I., Lauren doesn't smoke. -AGR

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Today I shot my friends band Twain Harte at Day 1 of the Radio Las Positas Big American Party event.

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On Wednesday April 9, thousand of protestors and supporters of the Olympic Torch Rally and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games crowded onto Embarcadero St. around Justin Herman Plaza to make their opinions heard. Here is how I saw the days events. Please click the images to see a larger size and cutlines. Thank you for viewing. -AGR

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In room 1269 of the Wilshire Grand while attending the 2008 JACC State Convention. I spent one very long night editing audio until 5am and was up at 8:30 cropping photos for the Team Feature Contest.

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To view the Multi-media piece that Lauren and I created for the JACC 2008 State convention, please visit this link. The Olvera Street MerchantsTo view other pieces then go here. Other Multi-Media Peices

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I began my adventures into blogging about a year ago, almost to the day. I started it after attending the JACC State convention in Sacramento. Since then, it has taken on many different forms. Color changes, wording, titles, it has all changed. Now, a year later, I'm at the 2008 JACC State convention again, this time in Los Angeles. Many things have changed for me since last year. Mostly good and

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So I have not posted in a while. During this time of no posts I have had the priveledge of doing alot of fun things. Here are a few images from my travels. The weekend before Spring Break and a big group of us (Valley Rock Climbers) went out to the Grotto at Table Mountain. This is Eric Sanchez redpointing Dwarf Toss (5.12a) on the cave wall. That kid pretty much dominated the Grotto on this trip

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I went climbing in Yosemite last week end. Epic times and epic climbs. Copy and paste the url below into your web browser for a slide show fo sho. Yosemite Climbing

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Your alarm clock goes off. It’s way too early on Monday morning. You drag your groggy carcass out of bed and get ready for work. The 30 minute commute to work goes by in a blur and 6 periods of Spanish wiz by. Before you know it, it’s 6 p.m. and you are back in class. Only you are not standing in front teaching, but rather sitting amongst the rest of the students soaking up the wealth of

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I borrowed Lauren's 50/1.8 today. So fun. So fast. And these two portraits are of Mohammad Abri and his "Tar," a stringed instrument from Iran.

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Woody Goes Big; Naked Magazine Originally uploaded by Alton Richardson: Light Painter

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Woody Goes Big; Naked Magazine Originally uploaded by Alton Richardson: Light Painter

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The things he carries; Naked Magazine double truck Originally uploaded by Alton Richardson: Light Painter

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Here is my take from the second half.

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Here are some of the photos from my take that I checked in-camera while shooting.

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Well school is back in session. That means another 11 issues of the Express. That means another few thousand imaghes to shoot. That means a whole new year of climbing. That means a whole lot of fun!!!!Last weekend was the Youth Climbing League Comp at Valley Rock Climbing Gym in Livermore, Ca. Congrats to all the winners with special shoot outs to Eric, Tara, Megan and Josh.

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Phew! I'm so glad that the holidays are just about over. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas and I love seeing family. Why I don't love is the fact that when I do see my family whatever the event, it's usually not my whole family. This needs not be explained in detail, but what I will say is that certain members of certains sides of my familia are either not to fond of each other or don't like

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Yesterday I posted a blog talking about not regreting choices or inconvient timing. I could not have been more on point. For certain events occured last night after that blog post that just seem to ring true to what I said. In particular the last paragraph. So after finishing up a few things after my post I went out to my car to go home when I discovered that my car wouldn't start. So two hours

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Until yesterday, I had never spoken to or met an Iraq Veteren. Then I met Jim McGuirck. A very soft spoken and humble 25 year old community college student, music lover and Iraq War Veteren. I was assigned to take his photograph for a story to be published in new student magazine. I had a few ideas for the image, but nothing solid. I didn't even know this guys story. I hadn't read the story yet.

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Hello There. A weekly look at students who attend Las Positas College. As seen published in the Express Student Newspaper. Text By: Stacey EidenThe lights dim, the credits roll, and the person who sold your ticket and helped you could actually be a fellow student at Las Positas College.Richard Holland works part time at the Regal Cinemas in Dublin. For almost two years, he has sold tickets,

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Thursday nights at Valley Rock Climbing Gym are fun. Dj with great tunes, boulderers with great attitides and friends with great jokes. All add up to a good time. Alot of good climbing went down last night. Eric Sanchez nabbed his first ascent of Monsters 5.11d. Brian Peer and Dan Abberman were getting really really close on Adroit.Robot V4. I got somewhat close to a send of that same V4. But

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Yestreday was Thursday as most of you know. And well Thursday is one of two nights that my friend Brian and I go climbing. Here is some stuff I shoot from our session. We'll thats it for now. Off to home for a few minutes then shooting some hoops at 6. See ya later!-AGR

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As I sit down to write this, the time is nearing midnight. Which will mark the end of my last full day in Idaho. I fly back tomorrow arriving in Oakland at 1:40pm after a short stop and plane switch in Portland, Or. I have had a good time in Idaho these last 5 days. Meet some new people, hung out with old friends, saw family. Good times. I can't wait to get back to California. It's were I'm from.

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Well, as many of you now today was Thanksgiving. A holiday that has turned into families getting together and eating lots of turkey.A time for celebrating and enjoying time with your loved ones. A time to miss and remember old ones. The start to another holiday season. I spent my thangsgiving today with my Father and his side of the family. It was a good time. Alot of this side of the family live

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Visiting family during the holidays. Is it a vacation? Vacations are intended to be relaxing. At least that’s what I have always thought them to be. But while sitting in the Oakland airport I feel everything but relaxed. Of course there are the normal concerns; did I forget anything? Did I leave my batteries at home? Batteries check. Did I leave my sync cable at home? Sync cable check. Did I

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I woke late again this morning. Around noon. Class starts a noon thirty. I was 20 minutes late. When I got into class we were doing "hell sheets" which is basically us reveiwing our newspaper that we published the week before. When then had a guest speaker. told us a bunch of crap. It's all good though, he is entitled to his opinion as well as I. All of this didn't interest me. All I wanted to do

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No photo's tonight. Just text. Today was a good day. Slept in late, which isn't too good because I tend to do that way to much. Then I headed out to San Jose with Julian and the band Helopolis. We were heading to their drummers house for their band practice. Shot a few images during the practice. Nothing special, just trying to get a feel for them and their interactions with their instruments.

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So in the Express issue that went out last week, issue 19.8, there was a story about how to make the perfect pet.......rock. I was asked to get an image of a rock for the art. So I did. And I shot it. But I decided to go farther. I wanted to make my own pet rock. So, without further adieu, meet Alfred. My pet rock. Currently he's rockin' (haha, no pun intended) a Viking helmet. But as his

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Hello There. A weekly look at students who attend Las Positas College. As seen published in the Express Student Newspaper. Text by Julian Lim.If you adjust the aperture, your depth of field changes. Now adjust your shutter speed accordingly. Finally, look focus in on the subject. Who is it?Its 1st year Las Positas College photography student, Emily Peterson.Before LPC, Petersen graduated from

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Hello There. A weekly look at students who attend Las Positas College. As seen published in the Express Student Newspaper. Text by Julian Lim. Coming from a colorful background of Iranian, Italian, English and Irish heritage, it’s pretty clear that Las Positas College student, Tina Matin, would eventually fall in love with the many different languages on Earth and the cultures that come with

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Hello There. A weekly look at students who attend Las Positas College. As seen published in the Express Student Newspaper. www.lpcexpress.orgText By: Julian LimMeet Melissa Hernandez.Melissa was found in the student center working diligently on her math studies. The small pierced-lipped young lady with chunks of color in her hair was not prepared for the mob approaching her.First, she was

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Summer is officialy done and school is going full on. And this heat? My goodness! It is way to hot here in Livermore, Ca. Anyways, I got back about 3 weeks ago from working at Camp Wolfeboro, a Boy Scout camp 45 minutes out of Arnold, Ca. I was there for 9 weeks, surrounded by the beauty that is the Stanislaus National Forest. Awesome Place. I'm not going to bore you all with a whole bunch of

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So, it has been a while since my last post. When I last blogged, it was the night before the Livermore Art & Wine Festival. Previously known as the Honey & Wine Festival. I said that I would post some images of the festival. I never did. Until now. Enjoy. Mr. Brian Covey of The Pendeltons. Tony Trevino Jr. bluesin' it on a harmonica. Mr. Covey again some with lead guitar. This guy plays bass foor

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So this week end is the Downtown Livermore Honey and Wine Festival. Its a two day event with 3 streets blocked off filled with booths. I am going to try and get some add leads for RadioLasPositas.com. As well as shoot the festival for my shcool paper. So some new photos should be up soon. Peace and Jah Bless!-Alton

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So last thursday, I had another great shoot. The subjects name is Lori Meyers. She just won a whole bunch of awards for her academic acheivments, including a two-year full ride scholorship to the college of her choice. Here are a few of the better images from the shoot. Tech: Beauty dish, camera right, about 20 inches from her face. Then a strobe placed behind her for the rim light. I totally

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Last night I spent two hours in the studio with my good friend, Daren Noodleman. He needed some head shots for an application so we shot those and then proceded to have some fun. Daren wanted to do some shots of him naked with something covering his parts. He has tatoos all over his body so this was a great idea to show those. I wanted to do something more technical with the lighting than I

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So I have a new photo class that started last week. It is called "individual projects." It is basically just that. An individual project. Originally, I was going to do my first project on sureal landscapes using IR film but I have now changed my mind. I am now going to do portraits of people smoking. I would like to use dramatic lighting to help accentuate the smoke and or the expression. I will

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This week I attended Jacc. Journalism Association of Community Colleges. This was the state conference so almost every community college journalism department was there. It was alot of fun. I learned alot, experianced more. Got to hang out with good people and skate some great parks. This is the image that I submitted for the on the spot feature photo. An original 1860's era Austrian Crystal

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