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So here they are, the much anticipated photos of our gender bending party. Phew.
Tags: Amy, Ariel, Craig, Daniela, friends, Jessie, Johanna, JP, Julie, Marla, party, Sarah, Stephan, Tin, Trent, Tristan, Tyler
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Remember a few posts ago when I couldn’t figure out who produced those beautiful pictures?
Well I’ve found it.
I remembered seeing some of his work with Marilyn Manson and that one model, you know, the one who looks like a redheaded doll?

Turns out her name is Lily Cole. I heard she likes punk.
Anyway, the photographer is Miles Aldridge, and you should seriously check out his stunning portfolio.

Along the way, I found some other bad ass work- mostly from google searching Vogue Italia photography.

They look and feel like they were shot in the 70’s. It’s sort of like discovering that old box of photos your mom had stashed in the crawlspace with old love letters and pictures of boys who were not your dad.

His name is Niel Krug, and I found him through some artsy site you might like.
They describe the photo series as “Beautiful, majestic and a little bit Choose Your Own Adventure or pulp novels come to life.” – RememberĀ those things? Dang.
Tags: Choose your own Adventure, Eggs, italia, Lily Cole, Miles Aldridge, Niel Krug, the 70's
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So this last weekend, I went on a three day backpacking trip with my family to a place called the Champion Sparkplug mine, near Bishop CA. The views were gorgeous, the wine delicious, and the nights bitterly cold. Everything a good camping trip is supposed to be.

This place is amazing. It’s an abandoned mining camp from the 1920’s. It’ s like a secret ghost town. You have to hike a good four miles in to get to the actual lower camp- but we cheated and used quads to get to the main trail head. From there to the camp was only two dicey miles mostly uphill. All of the Miner cabins are still standing, complete with pot bellied stoves and wooden plank floors.
Water comes from a spring and can be carried to a working camp kitchen complete with cast iron wood stove as well as a few white gas stoves from the 1950’s thoughtfully left by other campers. The miner’s cabins themselves have beds and even some linens. Everything is just as it looked in the mines hayday during the 1920’s. Even the glass windows are intact from the turn of the century.

During the day we took a 4 mile day hike up to the high camp that contained the mine itself. My family has always had a pension for crawling around in old mines, but this thing was massive. The tunnels were wide and cold, damp with old air. I strapped on my headlamp and wandered around a bit only to find more open mine shafts and twisting tunnels in every direction. Afraid of getting lost I turned back to find the daylight.
At night the stars were crisp and clear, and the airĀ very still. One night, before a light snowfall I started getting crazy weird vibes from the place. It occurred to me that mining is usually a very dangerous proposition, and that most likely, several men had died in the camp.

Then, this happened to my camera. Streaky, blurry, muddled photos. Maybe it was the rocky hike in, but part of me likes to think that it was the resident ghosts I felt roaming around that turned my camera into something from the twilight zone.
Unfortunately, those ghosts haven’t left my camera, and now ny six year old friend has finally given up the ghost. Looks like I’m in the market for a new camera.
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I really need to figure this out…. I have a compulsive problem with tearing through blogs and mining out beautiful imagery. Unfortunately, now that I want to share them with you, I don’t have the links or credits to go along with it.

I stole these off of a photograpers website. I can’t seem to tract back my steps.
UGH, this is killing me.
If this looks familiar to you, please, let me know where I got this from.
I remember that the photographer had been featured in Vogue Italia, and thats about it.
Simply beautiful and haunting.
Tags: fashion, gold, italia
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