Washingston State Ferries

This is a study focusing on contour line, also a study in technique of stippling. 

I also bought a fancy new drafting ruler that I wanted to take for a spin. Crisp lines. 

No ferries in California.

I'm starting to miss the water. 

Drawing Notebook

  For my beginning drawing class at Santa Clara University, we have been focusing on drawing with contours to emphasize what the eye really sees. When you try to draw what is in front of you, often your brain tells you what you see symbolically. For instance, when you draw an eye, your brain would tell you to draw an almond shape with a circle in the middle with some eyelashes. But when you really draw what you see, there is a ball covered with skin, the skin is stretched over the ball, and there are shadows, curves, and contours of the ball. When you really look closely, you find many more details that you may have not noticed before.
  Georges Perec, a french writer and artist examines ordinary objects such as his street, and writes down every detail. By writing it all down, you not only see objects for what they really are, but you question what those objects mean, and how and why they are used.
  For my first journal entry, I focused on my desk. I found there was so much more there than I thought there was in the first place. Drawing this way forces one to be open to so many more possibilities, to take in the world as it really is.

Transamerica Pyramid

The Streets

When you see photography like this, at first glance it seems messy, and unprofessional. 

Upon closer inspection, photography like this is in movement with its surroundings. It shows life, it shows real movement. It portrays a mood, and each colorful line follows its own path, similar to the others. These photographs are expressive and also rather fun to take. 

Both were shot at F3.5 ISO 100 with 2.5" exposure. 

Try it out!

Dewey Beach

Cap Sante

Bumbershoot 2010

      

Broad Street Stage 

Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot

Weezer Mainstage

Matt Bishop of Hey Marseilles 

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer

Alexandra Lawn of Ra Ra Riot

P Smoov of Fresh Espresso

MC Rik Rude of Fresh Espresso

Rivers Cuomo of Weezer

Welcome.

Hello. 

My name is Anders,

And I am a photographer. 

Welcome. 

When I look through the lens of a camera, 

something happens inside me. 

A switch is hit the moment I see past the viewfinder and a fuse is ignited somewhere inside my body. 

Suddenly, the world looks a little different, the focus shifts, the world somehow becomes more than what it was before. 

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything." 

When you are a photographer, the way you view the world changes. No longer do you mindlessly take in your surroundings, you become a part of the things around you. 

When you look closer, life seems to have so much more personality. 

The world seems to open up.

Ordinary objects become extraordinary.

Character is found in the most unlikely places. 

With photography, when you open the shutter, you catch a glimpse of

 LIFE.