The second reason to post this is to raise awareness that the films I used on the session apparently are in the process of being discontinued!!! Ugh! I just had the opportunity to try the fuji negative Pro color films and they are beautiful! I prefer them greatly to the Kodak Portra stuff that I had been shooting with before. And even worse, they are also going to stop making Neopan400 black and white film in 120 size! WTH is all that about? I just cant believe that, neopan400 is the only black and white film I shoot with in my Hasselblad and for good reason, its beautiful and versatile. All this news has me pretty depressed tonight really. Such is life. Well see how the situation develops. I sure am tempted to get a small credit card of some kind to buy up a bunch of these films to last me for a couple of years of shooting at least. Sigh, damn technology.

Anyways, hope you enjoy the photos. You can see more of them after the read more break below

First flight of three today! Where am I heading this time though? I will update this post as I am able through the next day or two as I travel on to my newest adventure across an ocean… I have never used my phone to post and the app crashes when I try to access settings, I wonder what the settings do. heh ah well, I will just hope that it works. stay tuned for more.

Chasing the sun west…

No photos this time around, night has fallen. Boarding plane two now. Little by little, next up is the long flight, I’m already exhausted and I think I stink after walking through this humid airport ha, well such is life eh? See you again in a bit…

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Pretty random shots I know but prob the last you will hear of me in this space for a good while. Assuming I make my flight in the mess that is LAX I will see you guys again on the other side of the pacific.

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I have arrived safe and sound here on the other side of the pacific! I will write more later on, for now just a few more shots from the journey taken a few hours ago.

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Just a few more shots and I will go in and clean up this post a bit with my laptop heh, iPhone wp app kind of sucks, handy but buggy.

Now I just need to take my 5D in for a sensor cleaning, I made the mistake of getting impatient and trying to clean it myself like an idiot and its just a mess now and it shows when I’m shooting at smaller apertures. So it goes. OH and in other news, looks like I will be traveling again but more on that later Pardon the lack of activity around here lately, been swamped with projects and work but that should change here pretty soon…

The large desktop version is only as good as my scanner will allow so its not super sharp but the charm of these subtle colors and soft focus may be just fine but ill leave that for you to decide, to download the desktop (wallpaper?) simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the zip containing the image and the terms of use. Also, if you link to this photo or post it on your blog please please link back here if you would and if you want to share desktops with friends simply link back here rather than to the zip. Thanks so much for your support, I will be getting the lens that will replace my 50mm and be back to shooting with my 5d again soon I hope.

Surely there is someone out there who would like to be the proud owner of this fine 50mm f/1.2L lens for Canon EOS mount cameras. Its a fantastic lens offering a beautiful DOF control and low light capability. Those who know my desktops and other digital imagery from the last year and a half or so have seen it in action and what it can do. Own a little piece of my photo taking history heh.

I have decided to part ways with it for something wider, a 35mm lens. Because it is my only lens I simply need something a bit wider for some of what I need it for and so here it is, yours for the taking. It is a used lens but the only sign of use is there along the edge of the front of the lens a couple little scratches that are only seen if you look closely and in no way effects the lens’s performance. I really love this lens and hate to part with it but I cant afford to buy another new lens without selling this one first.

I am asking $1200 USD and shipping in the US is free and probably around $15 or so for international shipping though it would be easiest to sell it within the US. It comes with everything it originally shipped with as seen below and payments will be accepted through Paypal.

If you are interested simply send along an email using the link in the links section to the right or the link at the bottom of the page. Thanks!

I know this is not particularly anything new in the photography world but as I was driving back through the mountains after some work I had this fog had settled in a valley around a big waterfall and I simply had to take advantage of these beautiful trees and get a couple of nice desktop images out of it. I thought this touch of yellow and blue added something nice to the feeling these have. I also shot a few film photos while I was there and they are being developed today so hopefully some more photos to share soon!

To download the full desktop image simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the zip containing both the images and the terms of use, no commercial use please!

ALSO! I LOVE all of you who have been helping out and posting links here to the site, your help is what keeps me going and helps spread the word of 50ft and what I am doing here but could I ask one little favor of you all who are sharing images? I certainly don’t mind the occasional use of an image as a tumblr or blog background and I certainly dont mind when you repost images around in your blogs but if you link back to a specific desktop could you do me a favor and link back to the permalink page where you can download the desktop rather than linking directly to the .zip file?

I am not going to go around policing the web or anything but your understanding would be pretty helpful I love my readers and I love that you guys help me out and the reason I use zips are to help push people in the sites direction so if you could help me out by doing that in the future I would be very much grateful, thank you(!) and I hope you continue to enjoy what I do around here.

Those of you who have been following the site for a while know that I like to divide my activity on the web out into different places rather than stick every little thing into one blog. For the most part, I do this to keep the content focused on the various sites I try to keep up.

You Disappear, which is WAY overdue for a bunch of new albums I have discovered since my last post, is for my love of quiet music. Flickr is used to be part of that community and share photos on a more regular basis, more of my film work is usually posted over there. Drifting Through is my tumblr page for random discoveries and bits of creative inspiration. Twitter I use for slightly more personal snips of daily life and is the closest to a facebook type update page as you will see from me as facebook for some reason just seems weird to me heh. Fiftyfootshadows is my home and is a place to post desktops, share stories, and talk about photography from time to time. Expect a design refresh as well as a couple of new features and ideas to come into light here soon. There is also a project that I have been working on for a few months now with another photographer and I will post more on that soon as I am nearly done with a redesign for that site as well.

So at any rate, the reason for my writing here today is simply to announce officially to the 50ft readers another little corner for me to hide things in on the internet. An additional tumblr page called Tiny Canvas. As you may remember I recently posted a bunch of pretty nice images from my trip to India which I took with my iPhone and it was then that I realized that it was a pretty fun, viable source of capturing photos during the moments in my every day life that may have gone unnoticed. I have talked about starting up a photo blog for iPhone photography and I finally got around to setting one up and have started adding to it. I decided to use tumblr for it because it is super easy to post to with my phone and any one else using tumblr can follow me there pretty easily as well or simply use the RSS feed to follow along. I’m sure some of you will find it fun or interesting to dig through from time to time. Heres a link again, incase you missed it.

While I have your attention, does anyone out there know of a service online that could pull together my activity on the web through RSS feeds and display them on one site together? Like a John Carey hub online to make it easy for anyone interested to just get everything I do online in one convenient package. I’ve been looking for a decent solution for a while now but have not come up with anything just yet. Thanks

While waiting for a train in India I recorded this moment with my iPhone where so much happened in such a short time. A cow walking by, vendors pushing carts, someone walking down the tracks, not to mention all of the various people in the windows and doors of the train. It was just perfect. So I slowed the whole thing down to take it all in slowly and I find it pretty hypnotizing.

Who knew dust could be so interesting to take photos of? Actually, its something I have wanted to try and capture for a while, the essence of those tiny specks of dust floating about in a ray of light and had just such an opportunity yesterday while staying with my brother in Memphis. I took some obvious liberties with the color which is something I don’t do too often but I tried to do it tastefully. Im pretty happy with the way they came out, hope you enjoy them as a desktop as much as I had fun trying to shoot thousands of dust particles floating through the air.

To download these images simply CLICK OR RIGHT CLICK HERE to download the attached zip file. Inside you will find all of the images above in a nice wallpaper size that should work for most anyone as well as the terms of use which in essence state that these are for your personal use only and can not be used in any sort of commercial sense outside that of your personal desktop wallpaper. Thanks for visiting and ENJOY!