Ok finally got through all of my pictures from when I was down in Conway Arkansas for a few weeks working on an Independent Film.

so this is a lot of random set shots and some sweet portraits.

Some have a more sepia color from the scanner but I decided to leave it.

Brian and I at some coffee house waiting on our sandwiches. I love the smoke.

Gas station / laundry mat we shot at.

Sound dude and some emo chick that was an extra. I am so glad I am not in High School.

Same dude chillin

boredom

Uh…

Brain happy cause he’s talking to his mom.

Brian mad because Chick-fil-a was closed.

Brian enjoying a free street screening of Spiderman 3.

so exciting…

ok I think thats it for me.

Life’s going great, lots of updates coming soon.

Ive recently found a new inspiration that I am super pumped about.

but more on that later.

take care

Terry

Ok, so I got asked by a friend of my father to do some documenting of the first annual Branson Express which is a model train convention.

I have always know that he was into building model trains and huge train layouts but didnt realize he was part of a nation wide club.

So long story short I agree to come out and shoot some video of the event.

I soon realized though that this had the potential to be a really nice documentary, if done correctly.

These people are EXTREMELY passionate about their hobby. And some of the craftsmanship that goes into the pieces is extraordinary.

They make everything as true to life as possible. When they say a scale replica they mean it.

I had two video cameras and I was running around this place interviewing and shooting all day long so I didn’t get very many photos with my Bessa.

Here is a taste of some of the people I met that day.

This is Ted and Marge from Kansas.

This was Marge’s personal layout that she built completely by herself. She said Ted only did the electrical part.

I asked them how they got into model trains. Ted had been into them since child hood but Marge took it up has a type of therapy.

Marge taught artistic roller skating. She explained it as being just like ice skating only with normal roller skates in a roller rink. She had her own skating facility and everything. She had been doing it for 35 years.

One day she had to have an ear operation and through some complications during surgery they messed up her equilibrium. Now she has extreme balance problems. So needless to say she had to quit teaching skating and they even closed up there skating rink.

Ted told me she was in a deep depression for months and one day she decided to help him on his layout. Well, Marge had WAY more ideas than him and started changing it around to fast for his liking, so he brought home a table for her to work on herself.

So now Marge and Ted travel around with their layouts enjoying a hobby they both have learned to love.

I wish I would have taken some stills of there layout to show you. I have lots of footage of it and its so detailed.

This is Scott.

Scott builds custom train cars for people. He LOVES what he does. You can just tell by the way he explains it. Every single piece of the cars he builds he does all by hand. He also “weathers” his own cars and his daughter in law (who wasn’t there) does all the graffiti on the box cars. Now the graffiti is NOT decals. She takes actual digital pictures of trains then blows them up and copies the tags onto the replica cars. It looked so good, it was insane.

His son was also there, who I didnt get a good picture of, but he was just as passionate about them.

This is just a random shot of one of the layouts. Not sure who’s.

Random dudes rummaging.

This dude was for real…

I am now pretty bummed that I didn’t get more shots. I will have to go through some of the footage and see if I can pull some screen grabs.

anyway hope you enjoyed it

even though it was pretty short.

later

Couple picks from Conway Arkansas. I was down there helping Brian out on a film he was shooting.

I guess you could say the highlight of the trip was the annual TOAD SUCK DAZE festival.

I didnt take as many pics as I would like…

but I think the point gets across in these.

The town is very proud of their Toad Suck Daze.

Setting up shop. These guys were way late.

They showed up on like the second day and then were busting ass trying to make up time.

was pretty entertaining.

Brian enjoying the carnies…

the kid not so much.

Another carny taking a break.

I know it wasn’t a carnival but they looked like carnies to me.

FUN SLIDE!!!!

It totally kicked the Super Slide’s ass.

Even fun for the parents.

I like the two sides to this picture.

The girls on the left don’t seem to be having as much fun as the girls on the right.

Or maybe the fat one in the middle just told an awesome joke.

More kids on mini motorcycles.

Not sure what the game was but they had shit load of gold fish.

She just interested me for some reason. I think she was on break from selling corn dogs.

Who likes fun hats!

Total hip shot, but actually more like a butt shot cause I was walking away when I decided to snap it. From behind my back.

Didn’t really work though.

Ok that was short and sweet.

I have a lot more from when I was down in Conway that I will put up soon.

sorry its been awhile since an update.

Thanks for checkin it out!

later

Little Sahara State Park, Waynoka Oklahoma.

Memorial Day weekend 08.

All shot on Fuji 200 neg. with my (POS) Ansco Panorama rangefinder.

No way in hell my nice equipment was going out in the sand.

The first few days there weren’t many people there and it was really windy. The sand was super smooth.

Kyle

Austin

Me

Kyle and Jay Daddy flyin…My only pic of Jason was fucked up from the lens door not opening all the way.

View from the hill behind our camp site.

This is one of my favorites.

Dudes at the top

Keeps the rain out… Wish I could have gotten more pics of the dune buggy.

I think I will end it here with some nice Banshee Porn.

I had the time of my life…

One of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Ok, so yeah i haven’t been the most inspired lately… Mainly do to my geographical location.

I just feel like I take better pictures in the city… right now I am in the country.

So the other day I started going through some old pics…

found some that I think I like… a little bit at least.

so I decided my blog could use a fresh post. I do have some rolls I need to develop so I will get on that.

so here is some oldies I didnt like the first time around

lets start with doggy

Then we got Bily

Somewhere pretty

Oliver

Beer

Bricks in a hallway???

Good concentration…

Carl looking good as ever…

ok yeah small post…

nothing exciting but he its still progress…I guess.

I hate being uninspired.

Some randomness…

Ben Hicks going away party? or maybe birthday? maybe both actually.

Wackiness.

Darkness…

These are from a a fair or carnival or whatever you want to call it in Humboldt Park.

Tightness…

This kid looks terrified. You would be to if you saw all the rust on that thing.

Ripped off Shrek. He was purple not green. So weird.

Speaking of weird.

Strategy…

Trip to Branson with my dudes.

Focus!!!

Shopping for a new shotgun…

Look at that concentration. They are serious shoppers.

looks hard as hell…

ok thats it for me!

take care.

Besides the usual enjoyment of being out and making photos or feeling like you are accomplishing something, I have truly come to love the unexpectedness of developing a roll not knowing what is on it.

For the last few years I have been living in Chicago and I have always tried to make as many trips home to Branson MO that I can. See my family mainly and hopefully meet up with as many friends as possible while being back. Well I have recently moved back for awhile and get some stuff straightened out, and in the process I made several trips back and forth between here and Chicago.

Ok, so the reason for all this, is that this next roll I developed had the most random stuff on it. It had Chicago stuff then home stuff then more Chicago stuff then finally home again. I guess in all actuality I should be shooting more so that it is split up over more rolls but I had A LOT of stuff going on.

So BAM…

Who like guns. I do, so I guess that makes me a redneck. Im totally fine with that.

Chad and Robyn, uh “Target Practicing” in a pond full of turtles. We just got done Squirrel hunting thats why they have the full camo getup.

A full day of death and destruction.

Sam shooting a gun for the first time. Its just a .22, I started them off small.

Jake also learning the way of the gun.

From there I go back to Chicago.

Saw this tree on the side of I-55, thought it looked cool.

Back in the Chi. My cuz Ian lookin fresh as always. I dont remember where we were, some house party.

Dathan eating the famous 3 dollar Bacci slice. Man I fucking miss that place.

Snagged this one while I was there as well.

Ok then the roll goes back Branson.

Dathan’s band Technicolour Stallion played a show at the Outland in Springfield MO. I shot some video and did my best at getting some pics. It was stupid dark.

I do have other shots from the show that I need to go through, but they were from my Nikon. Ill go through them and see what I got.

From there I took some shots at Darcy’s show. She’s in the Silver Dollar City Saloon Show. Pretty awesome actually.

Thats a really terrible pic of her, but its what I got.

Look at them lined up out the door to buy 8 dollar rootbeer floats and 6 dollar cokes.

I love theme parks.

Shot of the actual show.

Well thats it from me for now.

I think I will start with some pics from a boat trip I took on the Chain-O-Lakes in Illinois.

It was very very strange. I grew up on Table Rock Lake Missouri which is a very deep rock lined lake with very clear water.

The Chain-O-lakes is a smashed together muddy shallow river looking lake with way to many people on it.

It was also strange cause it seemed like if you didnt have a 200K or more boat you werent allowed on it!

Anyway, it was an experience. We went to a place called Barney Island, which is a bar in the middle of the lake.

They happen to have boat drag racing going on as well at the same time, but I couldnt really see any of that while I was there.

This is what it looks like from the farthest dock, which I was parked on. I dont know what time it was or what my setting were on the camera but it looks like it is getting pretty close to dark. Turned out nice though.

These were all HP5 at 800.

The walk of death. This is how you get to and from your boat in the pitch dark after hours of drinking.

Luckily the water was only like 2 feet deep, but you couldnt tell since it was so muddy.

This is looking out from the “cabin” of the cabin cruiser boat we were on.

The bar’s kitchen on the island. Top notch…if you like chili dogs and nachos.

Another thing I have always enjoyed documenting is strange toilets I come across.

This one being on the Island.

Glad I didn’t eat the chili dogs.

Palm tree in Illinois.  I dont even remember now if they were fake. Must have been.

Another of the tree. I really like this one though.

This was the closest I could come to documenting the “type” of people that were there. This pic is very tame to most of what I saw.

It was really strange. I come from southwest Missouri, which lets face it, is primarily made up of rednecks or “hicks” as I like to refer to ourselves.

But since this lake was about an hour outside of Chicago I was surprised to find so many rednecks.  Only all of these rednecks had half a million dollar boats and didn’t talk in a souther accent. It was strange.

Didn’t get any pics of the country band that was playing at the bar either.

This is the last from the Island.

I just want to say God Bless America, cause this is a truly special place. Where else can we drive huge boats in the rain to a mud slick island in the middle of a river to watch boat dragracing and drink 8 dollar beers while watching 45+ year old toothless women dance around and hit on 26 year old rednecks with tribal tattoos and no shirts on?

America baby, only in America.

oh and this is Nicole.

And this is Bill. They snuck on the end of the roll somehow.

Is “snuck” a word? The spell check doesn’t like it.

ok later.

thanks for looking

Got a bunch of rolls developed and I have started the long process of scanning them now.

Figured I would post up some of my favorites from the first roll.

Crawfish boil we had a Jake’s house. Pretty awesome. I caught them all by trap in Table Rock Lake MO.

Delicious.

This is Jake.

David snapping some pics of the festivities.

And Brandon not sure why hes one of the festivities.

This roll had a ton of randomness to it.

Like this one.

I took this at my Aunt’s house on Thanksgiving.

Midwest America. I love it.

Dudes takin a break from hitting the slider. It took us way to long to build this thing, but we got it up. I have no pics of anyone hitting it though cause I had to by the waverunner driver. Got video of it though.

I seem to have gotten my big ass fingers in the way on a few of these as well. sucks.

Glasssssss

I think I like this photo cause I dont know where the hell I was to have taken it and Im not even sure who the hell it is in the picture. Its my own little mystery.

I finished off the roll at Silver Dollar City with Jake. We were going to see his girl Darcy’s show. She in the saloon show. The next roll has some shots from there.

I know you are on the edge of your seats to see them. So I will have them up soon.

thanks for checkin it out.

I finally got a scanner so I can post up some sweet Polaroids.

I just got a Reporter SE, I am still playing around with it a bit.

The film I have is pretty old too. Most of it is expired.

Color is 669, I have some BW I need to scan at some point.

This is my cove on Table Rock Lake. That is Jake holding the wave runner while we set up a slider.

This is how the color came out of the camera pretty much. I really like the atmosphere of it.

This is just a random shot from my yard. I really like the way it turned out though.

So vintage.

Zoey the dog.

Zoey the dog freaking out!

Western Kansas.

It is overexposed and got bent but it seems to add so much more. There wasn’t much color to begin with so the pastel effect looks awesome.

Well thats its for me.

I have about 12 rolls of BW I am scanning in so expect more very soon.

thanks again for checking it out.