Grand Parents

This is a photo of my Dad's Mom and Dad. I love this photo. It's perfectly dated and timeless at once, a photo of two loving happy people, awkward and confident. This to me is pure portraiture from a period when subjects and photographers were more reverent of the process. It's crazy to me that this party pic says so much to me about these two people. One of the saddest things in my life (so far) is that I never met them. When my dad was in his 20's he started making some good money and bought his parents plane tickets to some sunny destination. On the way to the airport they were hit by a drunk driver and both died.
Rest In Peace Grandma and Grandpa.

Vertorama

Natural Light

Bud Lite, Coors Lite, Natural Light, One Light Source, Sun Light, Sun-Lite, Some Life, Natural Litre, Natural Debbie, Natural Nelson. Natura. Nature. Naytch.

Debbie Natural Lite, 2011

Nelson Natural Lite, 2011

Panorama: NOT THE LAST ONE I SWEARR

Refelction Montague Harbour, 2011

Photographers Listen: SUNSETS

Sunset Galiano Island Beach Performance Cinemascope Dark, 2011

Sunset Galiano Island Beach Performance Cinemascope, 2011

Interobang!?

Interobangradient

What's with the lack of interobangs?! Oh yeah, no keyboard key for that symbol. OR IS THERE?!?!?!?
Also, Interobangradient? Pretty good, eh?

Drawering

SIGNED M, 2011

Back From Island

Two days w/out post due to island vacation. 34 hours of camping. Happy Birthday Colby!

Camping Ferry Reflections, 2011

Old School Vs. New School in My Oeuvre

Favourite, 2001

Queen E. Paster Pastel Colour B - 2011

                   VS.













 
One image I made when I was sixteen and the other ten years later at the age of 26. No, I don't know what "Paster" is. I like the newer image better however I wish I still had the Photoshop recipe for the first image.
PO

Portrait Conceptuals

Inspired by dreams of illustrations and half-baked ideas half-lost, I bring you the first beta test of this Portrait Concept.

Scans

Some of the stuff I've scanned recently:

Check out the little x's on the eyes of one of the seals. Priceless! This was up on a wall at my Oma's place for decades. The lion image is from a Dutch fairytale book. We've also got some good looking packaging. There's some seriously beautiful design going on at the Head Office of Faro Mexican Tabacalera Co. The biker images are from an issue of Into The Wind Magazine from the 80's.

Dog Port ii

M-Dog at Park Three Times Stick Play, 2011

Is this too big for your screen?

"Robby Lou's Got a New Pair Of Shoes"

Pete's Feet, 2011

Wreck Beach Thursday Spring 2011, iv

Sand-Waves into Darker Colour Overlay, 2011

Ya Can't...

Ya can't roller skate in a buffalo herd
Ya can't take a shower in a parakeet cage
Ya can't go swimmin' in a baseball pool
Ya can't change film with a kid on your back
Ya can't drive around with a tiger in your car
But you can be happy if you've got a mind to
ALL YA GOTTA DO IS PUT YOUR MIND TO IT
KNUCKLE DOWN, BUCKLE DOWN, DO IT, DO IT, DO IT
-Roger Miller

Evergreens in Winter, 2011

 

Wreck Beach Thursday Spring 2011, iii

Sand and Shells into Outer-Space, 2011

Wreck Beach Thursday Spring 2011, ii

Venusian Rockscape - 2011

Wreck Beach Thursday Spring 2011, i

Tibetan Himalaya

Grrrr....

Losing my grip on posting. Wanted to roar into april and do 15 for the month. Haven't. Done. One. Yet.  I have however been doing some work for a little Sunday project I call Corporate Ladder™. 
Here's a Photograph of my mother. She came and visited me for my birthday in March. What a great person. :)
I wanted to take a portrait of her as I had just recently seen Aleksander Rodchenko's photograph Portrait of Mother, 1924. It was a sunny day and I wanted soft lighting so I set up a 4x6 white scrim 4 feet of the ground and I also stood 4 feet off the ground beside it, shooting at perhaps +2/3 exposure adjustment.
I'm not foolish enough to say mine even comes close to expressing as much as Al's does. His conveys an incredible depth of feeling, soul, simplicity, and without being over-bearing in sentiment. Thank you Alexander Rodchenko/Mother/Life for the inspiration.

Mother, Chuck Onyschuk - 2011

Portrait of Mother, Aleksander Rodchenko - 1924

Business Card Version 1.0

Business Card Backside

So this card turned out a bit to "dude" oriented. I feel like it says "I'm a guy, a photographer, and I think I'm super cool and dark. Here's my card. Call me anytime, baby." Not EXACTLY (at all) what I'm going for. Unfortunately I didn't realize this until AFTER I submitted the files and approved the proof.. That's what I get for staying up until 3 am designing. Skewed judgement from staring at screens for five hours. Oh well, at least Juke Box Print is super cheap and local. I'm picturing another order of 1000 business cards before the end of the year. And next time, a more neutral design. Minimalist. Designy. Profesh.
I'll post more about the cards when I receive them.
On a side not John, Sean and I watched Death Wish last night and I was thoroughly impressed. I went in with lowwww expectations, however the script is much different from other action movies of the same era, none of the acts were boring nor did it pander to the audience too too hard. It doesn't give the promised vigilante justice until the second act, and it never glorifies violence, always shocking, chilling. Better yet the cinematography by Arthur J. Ornitz is fucking amazing. Never heard of this guy before but he had a solid run in the industry from 1940's to the 1980's! I quickly checked out the rest of the stuff he cinematographied but there was nothing that I recognized. Definitely another master of exposure. And get this: Avante-Garde JAZZ (yes with all caps) soundsz track by HERBIE HANCOCK. Oh there's something wonderful about the days of whole orchestras being lead by a jazz master, instead of some dude sitting in front of Protools. One warning there's a pretty serious sexual assault  (perpetrated by a gang lead by Jeff Goldblum) scene near the middle of the second act. Didn't feel it to be exploitative, just... disturbing. Kind of a downer way of ending the post. Oh well. Good night folks. *drops mic
p.s. Charles Bronson's moustache rules HARD