Photo safari with tony!

Today Tony and i packed up are stuff and headed out for a photo safari! We started our day at stell coffee and tea and then headed to the out skerts of town. We found a (high class) hobo camp or it could have been a bunch of peoples old junk that they dumped in this big open field, either way it was a photo score! There was all kinds of stuff like: old books, cameras, loads of broken TVs, clothes (which was weird), and a boat. So over all it was awesome! When we were done there we headed to downtown Redlands. When we got there we headed in to an antique store which was odd to say the least. I think it compares quite nicely to the hobo camp thing... And we ended this fine safari after 3 hours of photography with gormet pizza!

*[Stay tuned for side by side comparesons of are photo assingments for the day!]*

The Gnome!

So for the past few days The Fiske-Phillips and my family have been playing a little prank/game. I like to call it "find the gnome". This game is pretty simple ,but first you will need a few things:

1. Gnome

2. Friends (which i hope you have anyway)

3. imagenation!

Now your ready to begin! How you ask, well it's very simple just take that Gnome and hid him in an odd place, but a place that most people would look every day. Here are some places where he has been put around my house and the Fiske-Phillips home.

1. ice chest

2. fridge

3. a top the toilet (with the seat down)

4. in a (soon to be packed) suit case

5. in a bed

6. by a fish bowl

7. outside of a window....

So Im sure hope to post more of the Gnome soon.

Ukulele Man.

Last Friday while riding my bike downtown i noticed many musicians. There was one man inperticular that i liked, his name is Keoki Ariol. He plays the ukulele amazingly. He told me about music night (which is every Friday). So tomorrow i plan to go and check out the scene again.

By the way i used a lensbaby for this photo!

farm olympics

Last Friday, the Farm school that I go to had Olympics games. The games we did were disks, javelin, lunch lugger charoit race, deadlift, and an opstical course. Most of the games were won by Justin's mentor group, and in the end when it was all talled up it was Justin's group that won. And walked away with the awsome trophy!

I was the offical photographer, so i hope that these photos are good because i had an awsome press pase to this event.

Grove skating!

Grove has weekly mini courses, every Wednesday! One mini course this year is skateboarding, well its really teaching Bill to skateboard. Bill is a teacher at Grove, who asked to be taught in the ways of standing on a wooden board with wheels.

These photos are from the first day of the mini course. We road are boards to downtown Redlands and purchased some skating equipment for Bill. This all was very fun!

A few weeks later at Brookside park where the mini course goes to teach bill, we brought along a surf/skate board. We had the genus idea to attach wheels and trucks of a long board(big skateboard), to a long board(the surf board type). Of course some one was going to get hurt, but that is yet to come.

We found that it worked great with two people on the board, so obviously this meant we need to add another person to the equation. So we did and we couldn't ride as fare with three people because we picked up to much speed. I decided that it was the person in the backs job to steer, and i wanted to try the steering. So i hopped on the back and about half way down the hill we began picking up a lot of speed. I was getting worried at this point seeing that we had speed wobbles. One of the wobbles knocked my foot off the edge of the board and then sucked my foot underneath it. My foot then became the break and also became broken.

I have had a cast for almost a week and a half and only have a few left!

awww, don't you love that new blog smell?

Today was the second day of winterums week! Winterums are a yearly thing we do at Grove, they are a week filled with one project that needs to be down. (At least that's what its like at the middle school portion of Grove!) My winterum is drama, i am the official photographer! This is cool, because i get to do nothing but photography!

The drama winterum had a field trip today. We went to the U of R, and learned about theater arts more so. We were given a tour of the costume room, lights room, theater, and the catwalk. The U of R has two theaters, one of which can hold over 300 people. We learned about how lighting works hand in hand with the play and sound. On the field trip we saw a light that could turn different colours, move, turn, and make the light look textured! After that we were allowed to walk the catwalk, which i had been dieing to do!

So that's what i did at school today!

Your my best friend...

What can i say about you....

well i see you when i go to bed and when i wake up..

Your not all that green unless you are wearing your costume...

Your as handsome as a pear...

You almost died...

once...

Your the funniest dog i know...

And your fav food is eggs and bacon with kibble... That's when i know you will always be there copper doo!

photography

So i have not blogged for a while... i just wanted to say that my photos are up at Stell and are working out great!

I'm just throwing ideas around ,but what you all think of art for heavens sake... oh so you haven't heard of it well its an art show where local artist come and show their work for 3 days. I was thinking this would be a great way to become better known. I also was think of talking to some other coffee shoppes in Redlands and asking if i could show some work there.

Well here are some of the photos i was thinking of appalling with. PLEASE BE HONEST!!!!! I will be putting others on my facebook!

church retreat!

So last weekend i went on a retreat! This retreat included tye dieing, swings, guitars, and all fun natural (and some unnatural). The first thing we did that weekend was tye dieing. It was messy, and that was only half the fun. It was colorful and ineresting. Next i played on the swings with the other teens. In the end Ross (thrasher) was the photographer. I give him full credit for the last photo! But all in all it was great ( (and i love you Aunt Sharon )thanks for fallowing!).

"Big t?"

while on vacation with the one i call my brother,

together we met a tortoise who's name was T and a group of three squirrels

Along with that we played some games

And built a boat witch could not float

But now i am home and all alone to finish my summer.

photos and photoshop and iphoto ohmy (lions and tigers and bears ohmy)

Today i have been working on a portfolio. You ask why ,this is because i would like to share them with you. You ask what? Well i know i share them with you all here online but i want it to be more public. How do i do this? Well it all comes back to making the portfolio ,I would like to talk to Robbie Stell (the owner of Stell Coffee and tea) about me putting them up on the walls in Stell.I will be giving it my all for the next two hours to edit my photos and chose 6-10 photos to take and show Robbie.

OK so i like to call this photo "what are you looking at".And i guess that raps it up.

lets just say Frog giging...

I'm sure your thinking "Frog giging what could he be talking about?" well what I'm talking about is a sport where you take some PVC pipe and stick a frog spear on the end of it.Next you would throw it at frogs in the middle of the night.

So yes this was fun but i did not catch any frogs.The first photo is in an old post office.The photo was taken while on a photo hunt with my dad.On the same day we found the "cowboy who was in love" (last photo).

Then theres Toma (who was name after a drum set) who was very paitiont while i photographed him.

Oh yes and we can forget the trip here.Eight hours of long dark pavement.But it looks cool!

Can we be your guest!

Yes, i know shocking...OK so I'm sure you all would like to know how this bear and my family meet. Well, we had just finish snacking(good thing too) and we were climbing back down and The bear was there...So this thing was a little bigger than me and had claws and teeth! I was only feet away from it and had completely climbed down with my dad. My mom was a safe distance away, but then theres Domenick with his back turned. He could not see at first what was happening, and at this time the bear was 5-10 feet from him. Oh, and by the time Dom had noticed it i had climbed 15-20 feet from were i had started in this story.Domenick was also hang on to a rock and could not touch the ground. Oh, i had also left my shoes down by where the bear was now...The interesting thing is this bear had not noticed Dom. Then it glances his way......and looks confused...so it gets within a 5 foot range trying to check out what he is doing. But the bear losers interest in seconds. But, MY SHOES!! The bears see them it sniffs them and then looks once more at us and leaves. I'm paralyzed after this...we collect are self's and hike down.

So the point of this trip was to hang out and chill, just family, so i guess we have a new family member......

inspired by...

What inspires you... 

This was inspired by Stells, Coffee, People, Tea, and it was inspired by life.

So if you don't enjoy coffee please stop reading this blog...No I'm just kidding.Well Stells is my third home to say the least.They feed me and i feel comfortable there.This is where i went everyday after school and if i didn't go i want to be there.

What can i say about these photos...well Phil who we have met in the past.(if you have not met him, he is one of my photography mentors.)He told me to go behind the counter.This gave a better view for photography, so thank you Phil.

(Later posts may include photography from the 4Th of July!)  

A work in progress

Lets start this off with an interdution. This is Peter (left) and his husband Gene. They were blessed at the anniversary of the Gay and lesban couples that got married last year. Where I was hired as the photographer.

So Peter, Gene, and I became friends we became acquainted very fast! Peter is a school physcologist. Gene is a prison Physcologist.

This was a good aniversary because there were 10-20 couples there. And plus i think everyone had fun!!

And so it begins!

YES SUMMER!!!

OK, i love video games.This is a fact!So it makes sence that i would stay up till 3 am to play them.

So last night Dom and Jacob also did this with help from the SNES (or Super Nintendo Entertainment System). Also asisted by Super Mario World and Chrono Trigger.

So, You ask "Noah why have you been skipping School?". And i would say" Oh but have been relested from the chamber of DOOM that we call school (oh and BTW i love that Chamber of Doom!  :)

I would Love to chat a bit longer but i must get back to the Cleaning of my room!

(stay tuned because i have a fealing there will be a before and after shoots of my room on my blog and mabey some righting with it?)

I love signs

Signs! Well signs are art all by them selfs.... i think they are GREAT!

Ok so this sign was at the beach, which is cool cause i love the beach. I took this while at my grandparents house. This is one of my favorite places (other then home and great aunt and uncles(which i will have to blog about in november)), i love it!

I love that you not to walk across a rallroad....?Plus theres a fence ,so i think signs are just there to look cool!haha!

Well got to cut this one short cause, im off to a sports banquite.