Sorry to ruin some of the surprise, Caleb.

Off to bed.

A great way to start a new week!

For those of you unfamiliar, there is an organization called Rosa Loves who does remarkable and admirable work helping people all over the world...all by selling tshirts. They find organizations and individuals all over the place (seriously...ALL over the place) and figure out their needs and design shirts based around the specific project.

I recently had the pleasure to photograph two of their new designs and the first launched today!

A young Kosovar man in who goes by Koki had the good fortunate to find the ear of Rosa Loves and will now be getting help on funding his education so he can help give back in his local community of Roma people. You should check out the whole story over at their site.

They launch another shirt I shot later in the week. I'll mention that when it is out.

The above is one of the shots I enjoyed from the shoot.

GO BUY A SHIRT AND HELP PEOPLE!

Just a nice, clean, straight forward portrait of Caleb.

quick edit, no words. gotta go. wweeeeeeeeeee

Another favorite from Caleb's wedding.

This is a shot taken around the time of stephen's poptpop (below).

©Stephen DeVries

Okay, so here is a cross-post for the day. I like this shot, but it was Mostly posted for the sake of it being what was being shot during a 4x5 on 4x5 POPTPOP (see the website for a larger image as well as other Pictures of People Taking Pictures of People).

I'll copy/paste from today's poptpop.

Oh man. History has been made!

The first 4x5 poptpop! Caleb got married to Laura this past Saturday and I shot a bunch of 4x5 for them, and so did Stephen DeVries. And he was responsible for the first, to my knowledge, large format Picture of [Me] taking a picture of [Caleb and his Groomsmen].

AND HOT DAMN IT ALL LOOKS GREAT!

By the by, Bryan is totally flipping Stephen off.

Also, there was a HUGE pre-and-post PopTpoP-off. More to come!

Oh man. History has been made!

The first 4x5 poptpop! Caleb got married to Laura this past Saturday and I shot a bunch of 4x5 for them, and so did Stephen DeVries. And he was responsible for the first, to my knowledge, large format Picture of [Me] taking a picture of [Caleb and his Groomsmen].

AND HOT DAMN IT ALL LOOKS GREAT!

By the by, Bryan is totally flipping Stephen off.

Also, there was a HUGE pre-and-post PopTpoP-off. More to come!

Here's the outcome...his shot them mine.

4x5 number one from Caleb's wedding. There are at least 7 I am very excited about.

In honor of her move.

The story of the refrigerator will never die, I think.

Another Japan poptpop in honor of today's wedding. Caleb & Laura got married today at an amazing place in Leeds and I REALLY wanted to develop it tonight i am just too tired. poptPoint is there was a HUGE poptpop-off marathon today shooting the girls. Bryan was shooting the girls, devries was 4x5ing that, paul was shooting bryan shooting the girls, i was shooting all of that, and branden was 8mm'ing all of THAT. AND! I think Alan was in on it too..I just can't remember.

I'm hoping for nothing short of Epic 4x5s from this wedding.

Caleb decided to do it in an interesting way. He grabbed a bunch of people he knows who take pictures (though perhaps not everyone he knows, as I think everything was practically double covered) and had them each take a part. I shot the guys, and few frames of them together right after plus two frames of family/wedding party. 19 frames of 4x5 (one got jacked in the holder. misloaded. oh well), a roll of lomo, 2.66 rolls of 1V and two rolls of rollei. pretty sure it was an all-film wedding which is exciting.

And GOD the MUSIC was unreal.

Shots from that as soon as asap. Stephanie just moved here TODAY (woohoooo!) and will be settling in for a few days no doubt, but I'm planning on cramming the developing in sometime really soon.

P.S. — 250 days into Electric Lion mark ii. weird.

Another random one from Japan.

Caleb gets married tomorrow.

Stephanie moves to Birmingham tomorrow.

I get to shoot 4x5 tomorrow.

Lots of good things happening this weekend.

The above shot was from just walking around Tokyo with Nicole. It was somewhere near the fish market area, but I don't remember exactly where. Anyone know Japanese?

Yet another alternate shot of my grandfather. Really loving 4x5 still.

An alternate shot of my grandfather from the farm a while back.

I'm really happy with these portraits.

I'm hoping the 4x5 lens will come in this week and try to squeak a couple in of Caleb and Laura. Did I mention that already?

Grandmother at the farm.

This is Caleb, who gets married this weekend, standing in for a lighting test for a shoot today.

A ridiculous out take of Eric from today's shoot for ROSA LOVES new tshirt line.

She moves in like a week.

Here's another shot from my grandparents' house/farm. They have lived at their current residence for 40 years and the staple, 140 year old tree that has provided amazing shade in the front yard came tumbling down during a recent brief yet powerful storm. This is a shot of my grandparents in front of the remaining stump. If you look at the fence you can see where part has been replaced from this beast falling on it (on the left).