Ando's Weekly

2012-01-17T16:26:00.000-08:00

Friday night: first opening of Satellite Projects featuring works by Michael Stillion

2012-01-17T16:17:00.000-08:00

Saturday I tagged along photographer friend David LaSpina as he gathered photographs for his series Picturesque Cincinnati which he is getting ready for Cincinnati's FotoFocus in the Fall. You can see his progress and his other work at davidlaspina.com Please check it out. Here's a few pics I took along the way.

2012-01-11T21:23:00.000-08:00

Last Pictures of 2011

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I also have some shots on film but they haven't been processed yet.

Crows

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December 12, 2011

A Day: December 3, 2011

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traditional Thanksgiving Day walk on the pier at Lake Ontario Beach

2011-11-18T14:42:00.000-08:00

Pete lent me an old Rolleiflex camera he bought off Ebay. I always wanted to try it out. These and the previous B&W images from New England are some of my first pics using the Rolleiflex

New England and Boston (and Rochester,NY)

2011-11-11T17:26:00.000-08:00

These photos are about 3 weeks old now but I finally got my hard drive fixed so I could post them.

apple orchard, New Hampshire
Grafton, Vermont
Woodstock, Vermont
Lake Ontario, Rochester, NY

subway, Boston
arboretum, Roslindale, Boston

White Mountains, New Hampshire

2011-11-11T17:21:00.000-08:00

New England and Boston (and Rochester,NY) continued

2011-11-11T17:14:00.000-08:00

Woodstock, Vermont

Woodstock, Vermont
morning view from the Latchis Hotel, Brattlebor, VT
outside the Latchis Theater, Brattleboro, VT

pinhole view of the White Mountains, NH

2011-11-11T15:42:00.000-08:00

November 9, 2011: Mt. Zion Cemetery, Clermont County, Ohio

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November 5, 2011: Danny Hafer, Frank Stanton, Lia Stanton, Johnny Ruzsa

2011-11-02T17:00:00.000-07:00

This was supposed to be a post featuring lots of pictures from our trip to New England and Boston. After I got nearly 6 rolls of film and hundreds of digital pictures scanned and uploaded onto my external hard drive, that hard drive failed and I cannot access them. So until I fix the problem and hopefully recover all those pictures (thank Kodak I still have at least some of them on negative film) here are a couple pics from our front porch on Halloween. Hopefully I will be able to post some of the New England pics in the next couple of weeks.

2011-10-03T21:42:00.000-07:00

flashback to Michigan

Partying for Mike

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Colleen with newly grown mushrooms at twilight

two more from Michigan

2011-09-05T18:51:00.000-07:00

Leo Birthdays at Oliver & Alix's

2011-08-21T10:38:00.000-07:00

Fountain Square Music

2011-08-21T10:33:00.000-07:00

The Chocolate Horse

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Suburbia

2011-07-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

Photobook 3, page 92

2011-06-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

2011-06-08T18:26:00.000-07:00

A dirt point of view of the Sugar Snap Peas.

Red River Gorge, Kentucky

2011-05-26T05:06:00.000-07:00

Old film Just Processed

2011-05-13T16:21:00.000-07:00

Found this roll of film taken in London in 2002.

What We Were Doing Last Week

2011-05-13T16:11:00.000-07:00

Garage Cinema: The Godfather

2011-05-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

April 27th

2011-04-27T17:28:00.000-07:00

2011-04-20T16:34:00.000-07:00

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Bock Fest 2011

2011-03-05T12:18:00.000-08:00

Michael, Katie, and Dustin. Check out Michael's paintings at mstillion.blogspot.com

Photos From BockFest Past

2011-03-05T11:58:00.000-08:00

2006

2007

Self Portrait: Cabbage Hole

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2011-02-15T17:29:00.000-08:00

The Groundhog Skin Banjo

2011-02-06T15:20:00.000-08:00

Rootin' Round My Back Door

2011-02-06T07:43:00.001-08:00

Groundhog Face

2011-01-22T07:13:00.000-08:00

Thursday, late afternoon walk through Parker's Woods
I took some time this week to make new photobook pages.

2011-01-18T13:05:00.000-08:00

all i got this week is a couple dull landscapes and some cheesy photoshoppin

2011-01-14T15:31:00.000-08:00

Wednesday, January 12

Old Film

2011-01-07T09:10:00.000-08:00

My repaired film scanner came back to me and I found an old roll of 120 film that said "Michigan '09" on it but turned out to be mostly from Scotland on the Isle of Staffa in '08.

Now after scanning 1 and 1/2 rolls of 35mm, the scanner isn't scanning right and I can't get the current strip of film out of it. I spent $400 getting this thing fixed. Is this a sign that I am wasting my time and money with film? The post below shows the 35mm pix I got scanned before it jammed up on me.

New film scans: December 3 - December 26

2011-01-07T09:05:00.000-08:00

Sexy Santa

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Frank repaints his mural - 30 years later

2010-12-03T13:52:00.000-08:00

These first few pictures are really grainy. I forgot the camera was set on ISO 1600 which was really unnecessary. May re-shoot them

Film Scanner is Down

2010-11-23T06:52:00.000-08:00

So I have been making collages in my photobook and digitally combined family photos.

my great aunt and uncle's house in Virginia (above)

below: my grandmother

I found this picture (below) among the family photos but I don't know who he is. I think it is a very nice picture though, and obviously someone in my family had an appreciation for good environmental portrait photography and good music.
my combined version

2010-11-16T13:49:00.000-08:00

October 31, 2010

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Apple Butter Making, October 24, 2010

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see more photos at The Houston Social

2010-10-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

Hazel Roy's Dog House

2010-09-30T19:56:00.000-07:00

I finally finished Haze's dog house.

Haze gives his approval

2010-09-26T06:43:00.000-07:00

The Hiders

ArtWorks Art Cars

2010-09-21T10:57:00.001-07:00

A few more from Michigan

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blackberry rows

river grass (Platte River)

Hazel Roy for President!

2010-09-14T18:01:00.000-07:00

I just think Hazel Roy is looking very presidential here. I'll photoshop his eyes in later, and then maybe someone could forward this to Shepard Fairey for me. He'll be running against Palin in 2016. He'll win.

Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan

2010-09-14T17:56:00.000-07:00

2010-09-02T15:26:00.000-07:00

Since I try to push myself to have some kind of new photos on here on a weekly basis, I find myself stopping to take 20 pictures of something I might not necessarily go out of my way for. Hence these butterflies which have swarmed our backyard all summer. I'm glad I make myself do it.

2010-08-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

This is from an old roll of film I found in my desk drawer that I never developed. I think I took it three years ago

Voigtlander

2010-08-27T13:58:00.000-07:00

Pete gave me an old Voigtlander medium format folding camera as a graduation present and told me about a guy who polishes and fixes them up good as new. I decided to take a roll of film before I send it off, and this is what they look like. I don't know if the image quality gets better when fixed up. I'll have to figure out better how to focus correctly.

Yellow Early Evening

2010-08-20T07:49:00.000-07:00

From last Saturday. The sky poured down much needed rain a couple hours earlier, then everything became golden.

2010-08-20T07:42:00.000-07:00

ArtWorks, North Fairmount Mural Dedication: 8/12/10

Reunions

2010-08-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

I visited with one side of the family where nothing's changed and another where too much has. I couldn't bring myself to take too many pictures of the actual Hickory Grove reunion at the cabin because I just thought of the people who couldn't be there who I wanted there. So I just took a few pictures of weeds, red dirt and brown water. The best parts, like riding in the back of Chad's truck at night, watching the tree tops blur by and the stars remain still are probably best preserved by memory anyway.

Little Miami River, Home Garden, Mill Creek

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2010-07-26T09:59:00.000-07:00

Northside 4th of July Parade

2010-07-06T19:20:00.001-07:00

Last Tuesday

2010-07-01T16:31:00.001-07:00

River City Works

2010-06-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

Zach and Warren and River City Works fabricating glass pieces for Jesse Henson's memorial sculpture for Esme Kenney

Hadlock Wedding

2010-06-15T07:40:00.001-07:00

Terry's Turf Club 5/18/10 with the Herrmann's, the Farrell's, and the Sunaga's

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May

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April 29

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Last Posts from California trip

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2010-04-07T01:13:00.000-07:00

San Diego & Southern California last week

2010-04-03T18:19:00.000-07:00

Colleen is sooo cool.

2010-03-13T10:31:00.000-08:00

In our last week at high school before spring break (and my last week of student teaching) we did light drawings, by taking very long time exposures in the dark and moving around and occasionally popping camera flash to capture a person in more than one place at a time. The first picture below was my version of light drawing but it didn't come out like I wanted. Carole popped the flash twice instead of just once like I wanted so that only my baring yellow teeth would show up and then my full portrait in the background. The second picture below is a slightly photoshopped version which is the way I wanted it to look in my head. I think it would have worked with only one pop of the flash.

(the altered photoshop version below)

a path in the woods as the final snow melts

Snow Polaroid

2010-02-20T08:21:00.000-08:00

Snow Day, February 9, 2010

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"Who Dat."- Roko

Student teaching: Dada photomontage with 5th graders

2010-02-04T16:34:00.001-08:00

I taught my fifth grade students about the Dadaists and their photomontage work. They started the photomontages the week before and this week finished them up by adding their own Dadaist poems and titles. You can see more elementary school art at thehoustonsocial.blogspot.com
"search for all the history in the world"

title: Everyone Has an Excuse, 2010

"the information is heavy"

"help grow a bigger slice of pie"

"the end of peachy nature our hundreds of so beautiful money"

"the ship. visions show future difficult dear science"

New Photos (with disclaimer)

2010-01-13T20:25:00.000-08:00

This blog is supposed to be for posting brand new pictures that I have taken in the past week or so before being posted, but I have been so busy with my student teaching that I haven't taken much sine the New Year's Eve party. I want to post something and these are two images that I took last November that I wanted to post but forgot.

Lake Ontario, Rochester, New York, Thanksgiving Day 2009

frozen leaves, December 2009

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December 22nd 2009

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Spurzz featuring Jonny Ruzsa on slide guitar

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Chrismas Time

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Apple Butter

2009-11-08T17:26:00.000-08:00

2009-11-03T21:01:00.000-08:00

I know this is supposed to be a weekly post and I have not posted in almost a month! I have actually been taking some pictures (but not nearly enough) but I have been very busy this quarter and unable to be as prolific as I'd like to be and to load them onto the computer and what not.

So here are a few of those photos that I have taken that I did not get around to posting a few weeks ago. If anyone actually looks at this blog, forgive me for the long delay and please keep checking because I promise to start posting more regularly again, soon.

below, more pictures from the SCPA after-school project.

I highly recommend you check out their own photographic work from the project which you can see at www.cincinnatinewvoices.com/ I think the photographs they have made over the past several weeks beats anything on this blog.

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Full Moon

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SCPA students after school project: photographing their downtown neighborhood

Washington Park

Mid Point Music Fest

2009-10-01T07:17:00.000-07:00

Extra Golden

Chocolate Horse

Philadelphia

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Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan

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Hickory Grove & Asheville, Western Carolinas

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Blue Ridge Mountains and Asheville

Cherokee Speedway, near Hickory Grove

Wilkerson reunion at the Wilkerson cabin in Hickory Grove, South Carolina

Prairie Gallery & Kid's View

2009-08-05T17:20:00.001-07:00

I'm cheating here, since I didn't take this picture. It was taken by a pre-teen student (Mae?) with a home made pin-hole camera. However, I did make this print in the darkroom which took about 7 work prints and lots of burning, dodging and split-filtering to get right, so I'm pretty proud of it. This summer I have been helping David Rosenthal who started the non-profit Prairie Gallery and Kid's View photography program. We have been making prints from his Kids View students pin-hole photos for a show at Prairie Gallery, which I believe opens on September 4th.