Mandaki Photo

10/03/2025

My supper after the 8hr drive home from Sioux City. Oooofff

09/28/2025

Had the opportunity to have my aura photographed yesterday at Polacon, on Fuji peel-apart, no less. Pretty coolAF.
The camera contraption was very interesting. The interpretation given for the aura was also really intriguing. There was more to it than what is in the video, but I'm sure you don't need all that.
If you get the chance to do this, I think you should!
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09/27/2025

• A Carnival Barker
• Fair Food
• Round & Round
• Little Big Tex (great grandson of Jack Bridges, creator of original Big Tex)
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09/20/2025

Wasted(?) a bunch of time today rigging a fixed-focus setup on my Speed Graphic sporting a Rollei Heidosmat 150mm f/2.8 lens and Mercury Camera instax wide back.

Hold the washer on the end of the red cord to your eye, drop it, and stay REAL STILL. Then we'll pray I have you framed up ok.

Still narrowing down what not-all-the-things I am bringing down to .con in Texas this year and I gotta make some decisions quick because I'm leaving tomorrow.....

10/22/2024

I've had this thing for over a year. It still has the-first-roll in it. I've been on a mission to finish-all-the-rolls so I can get the pile of undeveloped sent off.
Tonight on the-evening-stroll I realized IT IS NOT ADVANCING between shots. I've been diligently exposing the same two frames over and over and over wondering when the he'll I'm ever going to reach the end. DOH

10/19/2024

Outtake from sesh today w
We decided it was too sinister for the attitude she is looking to convey at work, but we both know how sinister she really is and how she gets to be her in her dreams. 😄😄😄

10/12/2024

Currently have no fewer than qty.5 cameras laying around with unfinished rolls of whoTF knows what/when in them. I am not proud of this.
Add in 12+ rolls waiting to get developed and it gets hard to look at myself in the mirror.

12/18/2023

My first (and still only) photobook still hanging out there.
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11/21/2023

Custom anklet in Thailand.

06/16/2023

This is a 5-minute short film I just released under my new video production entity, Forteana Media.

A young woman dealing with agoraphobia and the uncertainties of 2023.Lizzie Riley "The Woman"Kate Hermanson "Frankie"Shot on a DJI Ronin 4Dhttp://forteana.media