the little things

I'm gonna go ahead and say that you bought the shoes you're wearing (if you're wearing a pair, if not go put some on or at least put a pair next to your computer) because they look good and/or they're comfy. I bought all of mine because of those reasons. Except the internet thing. This guy doesn't buy his shoes off the internet cause most of my shoes aren't the same size, but they fit exactly the same.

I digress

I grabbed my Herman 2's, Hsu's and Koston 1's because they looked good, they were comfortable and...

Because the insoles looked awesome.

Seriously. You may think I'm an idiot, but that was the tipping point. And here are the insoles so you can see the awesomeness:

Herman 2's


Hsu's


AL50's


Koston's

Canceled shoot

My friend Dave Brewer was on his way over to help me out with a project, but unfortunately his car blew up on the way over so I had nothing but time on my hands. What am I to do? Well, I could do this:



"This" is photographing a coin collection I inherited. I've only had the collection in my house for a few years now, and I've been saying I'm going to photograph every coin (and piece of paper money, there's a bunch of that) since it arrived at my house.

Anyway, what you're seeing is a black sheet for a full sized mattress stapled to the wall (of a house I'm renting, genius I know!) with a little table underneath it and a small felt lined box on top of the table. I've got my camera, a Canon Digital Rebel (300D) with a Tamron AF70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di LD Macro lens, sitting just below and to the right of the shoot through umbrella I have on my Alien Bees B400 flash head. The flash is at 1/4 power, the camera is at 1/200 @ f/16 and 100 ISO. Here's one of the coins: