the amazing photoblog of k.t. Strasse

nightfoto

2009-11-07T00:53:00.002-05:00

a while back, just for fun, i tried taking a night photo while waiting for a friend in monument square. i tried thirty seconds, forty five seconds, and a minute. they all came out about the same, which makes me question my ability to count seconds, but it was fun anyway.

coastal photograph

2009-11-01T21:31:00.003-05:00

i've been bringing my camera with me to sailing practice, as you've probably noticed. this means that i have a great many photographs that i took on the water, subjects being boats and birds and the odd skyline shot.

old photos

2009-10-18T22:25:00.003-04:00

this is not a backpost. i have already posted both of these photos on this blog, both recently, but i have decided to post them again. they need to be displayed together.

blogpost

2009-10-17T11:08:00.002-04:00

a photostudy: andrew

2009-10-15T00:38:00.007-04:00

i recently had the privilege of shooting a roll of film with my good friend andrew. he very patiently was the subject of maybe an hour's worth of photographs. here i present andrew, in living color.

thank you, andrew.

a query

2009-10-14T12:54:00.004-04:00

i had a few pictures [two] left on a roll in my ricoh from forever ago [see "summer: another backpost".] i found some sunflowers on concord st that wanted to be photographed, so i obliged.
i'm not sure which one i like better. the portrait one i think is more about the flower with no distractions, just brown and blue. i think i did a good job of showing the dead flower with that one. the landscape photo has something, though, that i really like. any input?

beauty-fall

2009-10-13T01:34:00.004-04:00

i love maine in the fall. i love the trees and the breeze and i love wearing heavy sweaters. i love being on the water in the fall, feeling the wind on my face and salt in the air. as interpreted by k.t. Strasse, i present to you, moste proudly, "fall."
for the following pictures, i used asa 160 slide film "velvia" and had it cross processed and printed with negatives.
the portland skyline a bit before sunset. quite a dramatic effect.

a view of my powerboat's console and radio:

the second ugliest building in portland:

420 coming in to dock. it was getting chilly at this point:

my second attempt at a panorama. i'm pleased with the results:

summer: another backpost

2009-10-11T16:33:00.005-04:00

fresh rain. i really like the colors and lighting in this one.

i spent an afternoon lounging on the rocks at the east end with sean and sarah.

we made rock piles. i didn't get the depth of field quite right in this one. i'll have to do better next time.

my summer: sailmaine. liz briggs, lounging in the office before the start of a hot summer day.

blackbird summer

2009-10-10T20:43:00.005-04:00

back in june, i shot a roll of film with blackbird fly, but i didn't take it out of the camera. instead, i just forgot about it entirely. recently, i picked the camera up and realized there was a roll of film in it. it was pretty exciting getting that mystery roll developed, there are some good pictures on it.
franco on a hot summer day.

joe beagle, getting ready for a bath. when he looks like this, i always want to call him smudge.

this is jim. we went to boat school together. he's pretty cool.

sarahbear's kitchen. remember there was one picture left and i was just going to rewind it? you said 'no, you should take it!'

hoorah for new cameras!

2009-10-10T20:35:00.007-04:00

i like using my pentax. i really like taking photos with it. it seems like whenever i have it with me, there is something to be photographed. i proudly present roll number 2, taken 10/10/09.
i started my day around eleven with loading a new roll of film into my camera. the sun was shining into the window, and the plants were begging for attention:

theres something about the brick wall on the left leading to the boat that i really like.

an old post for an old camera??

2009-10-07T22:05:00.004-04:00

the title doesn't make much sense, but i just found a photo to backpost: it's from the same roll as the nightphotos.
if you look really closely, in the bottom of the frame, in the center/right, i'm in the picture. this is where i work:

this was supposed to be part of the panorama, but the stitch program i have didn't want it to be in there, so now it is a lone foto:

a new post for a new camera!!

2009-10-07T21:58:00.004-04:00

i recently (yesterday) bought a new camera. actually, an old camera, but it's new to me. i got a Pentax K-1000. it's pretty exciting, i like it oodles. i spent most of the day on tuesday taking photos and eating thai food. most of the photos feel a bit uninspired, i think because i need a subject. there are a few ok pictures.

this is my favorite one off the roll. this cat was in the west end, just waiting for an impromptu photo shoot. she was super friendly and wanted to hang out.

self portrait in a dark window. katie was entirely uninterested, which is my favorite part of this picture.

BIRDS!

heres to new cameras!

a little night foto?

2009-10-03T14:11:00.003-04:00

back in early september, i went to fort williams with a one mr. jesse lindley. we were there from maybe nine to eleven. it got pretty cold by the end of the night. i took several pictures, one and one half of which came out.
two lights. i really like this one.

this was taken from the forts to the left at the first parking lot, overlooking the beach. from top down, you can see clouds, treeline, beach, jesse, me, and the water.

summer: a reprise

2009-09-27T19:38:00.003-04:00

i took these mid to late august.

typical portland:

sexy sammy, lounging in the sun:

proof of faeries. more of these to come:

summerfoto

2009-07-21T16:25:00.005-04:00

on my way to work thursday morning, i got stuck at a train. fortunately, i was right outside of my photo store, and they had just opened up. i picked up my photos and chatted for a few minutes, and by the time i got outside, the train was ending. hoorah for good timing.

this is the single most frightening double exposure i've ever taken:

followed closely by this:

now that i got that out of the way, i have summerfoto, as promised.
this is summer:

as is this:

the underdog, thriving.

summerfoto

2009-07-18T17:38:00.008-04:00

i have here some photographs from a sunny day and some photographs from a stormy day.
out of these first two, i'm not sure which i like better.

i took this on the day george monaco broke his car, outside the parking garage. :/

on the fourth, at the east end. the sky wouldn't make up it's mind, it kept spitting on us.

dan, being dan.

foto bonus

2009-07-13T21:38:00.003-04:00

anna at the photo store gave me a free bonus photo in with my own photographs. looks like easter.
thank you, anna.
as a sidenote, it's good to know that somebody else is as inept as i am and paying by the photograph.

more old photos

2009-07-13T21:18:00.005-04:00

these are some photos i took with the orange tlr otherwise known as blackbird, fly! i took them in april or may, in northampton when i was visiting val and christine.
the first afternoon i was there, val was working so i wandered around northampton, revisiting my old haunts; namely the comic book store and the botanical gardens [editors note: the very first photo uploaded on this blog is from the smith botanical gardens.] the lighting was no good in the comic book store, so i present The Smith College Botanical Gardens.

but first, val's cat:

as promised, the smith botanical gardens, just through the doorway.

a greenhouse within a greenhouse.

sometimes blackbird, fly! gets a funny glare on the lens. i think i like it here.
before all that glare, it was a photograph of the orchid room with a built in above ground pool, complete with fish and frogs.

more old photos, continued

2009-07-13T21:12:00.003-04:00

the next day, valtini and i sought out the sinkhole. we went on an epic adventure and found it down the bike path. i thought it was maybe quicksand or mud you could throw rocks and sticks into, but it turned out that the hill that the bike path was on fell into the river.

where the sidewalk ends.

valtini.

and again.

a different vantage point.

the hillside fell into the river.

more old photos, continued

2009-07-13T21:04:00.005-04:00

eliza and i spent a really nice afternoon together. we got coffee and talked, and then she took me to a rooftop. it was really nice to sit in the sun and watch the people walk by. there's a fire escape across from dandy in the underworld, i don't know how she found it.

this is us.

the view of yon church.

eliza.

happy fourth!

2009-07-04T13:43:00.003-04:00

in honor of the fourth of july, i shall post two photographs from three weeks ago.

this is paul, my boatbuilding instructor.

this is a nerd.

summer update!

2009-07-02T20:39:00.005-04:00

i took these photos last thursday when it was actually nice.

this is robb putting on sunscreen.

we rigged the boats,

and put them in the water too.

summer update!

2009-07-02T20:34:00.004-04:00

we actually sailed!

happy go skateboarding day

2009-06-24T18:51:00.003-04:00

i decided to celebrate with a roll of 200 speed kodak film. unfortunately, i missed most of the skateboarding.

i like the colors in this one, it makes me think of old hand colored photographs.

post-apocalyptic, huh?

a sofa!

happy go skateboarding day, cont.

2009-06-24T18:48:00.002-04:00

me, wearing my new red pants, standing on top of a decrepit van.

i like the colors here.

this is nash.

this is also nash.

nash looking unhappy

2009-06-24T18:46:00.002-04:00

just thought i'd add two more photos from may of nash looking unhappy.

this is one of my favorite photographs ever.

a little somethin somethin

2009-06-24T18:28:00.003-04:00

i took these in may with my mom's slr, asa 800 film.
this one was taken at night in thick fog with a pink cellophane covered flash.

mom at the seafood restaurant. i like the lighting.

at fort williams, sean being dramatic.

this is america.

and again.

this not my family.

2009-05-16T18:47:00.001-04:00

everybody in adult communities should have a lawn ornament or five.

this is my family (but not my mother.)

2009-05-16T18:39:00.001-04:00

photo class

2009-05-14T18:11:00.002-04:00

i started a photography class through portland adult ed last thursday. we learned the basics (mostly stuff i already knew.) i'll be posting the photos taken for the class.
the class is fifteen people, thirteen of them being middle aged women with very large digital slrs, and two of them being hipsters under the age of twenty three with vintage film cameras given to them by their parents.
i'm on my way there now. pretty much really excited about it.

a backpost

2009-05-03T20:40:00.004-04:00

these are from val getting a tattoo. she got "teach" on one ankle and "mindfulness" on the other ankle. she had him do "mindfulness" first so she could bail out on "teach" if she needed to.
good thing i had my camera set to bulb shot.

this guy used to come into sam's every day. he would get a slice of pepperoni and a coke.

these are val's legs.

raquel held val's hand through the whole thing.

a backpost

2009-05-03T20:29:00.005-04:00

a quiet sunday night at nash's house. we're listening to sparklehorse and it brings back memories from northampton.
i thought it seemed an appropriate time to put up these pictures. this is one of the first (or maybe the very first) roll of film that i shot. april/may of 2008?

purposeful double exposure. raquels tattoo and her face. [her FACE!]

this is val and raquel being cute on the bench right after val got her new tats.
every time i see this photograph, i'm excited about the colors.

a statue in the park. val and raquel are still being cute in the background.

this is jesse pretending to be bob.

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-06T20:18:00.001-04:00

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-04T14:18:00.000-04:00

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-03T10:17:00.001-04:00

this is my new camera. though she is orange, she is called blackbird

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-03T10:08:00.002-04:00

scott the farmer let me in to the pasture. when i came up to the cows, they wanted treats from scott, and they wanted me to leave. they all started defacating, huge sloppy piles about eight inches around. one of them lifted his/her? tail up and started spraying out urine. it was like a garden hose with the pressure all the way up, spraying and spraying. it looked to be about a gallon total.
these cow photos are for sarah.
this is the set from the farm next to the school:

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-03T10:02:00.005-04:00

this is the set from the west end:

nash was checking his shoe for dogshit.

nash took this one, but he said i could have the credit for it, so it's mine.

this dog is gay.

blackbird, fly!

2009-04-03T09:49:00.005-04:00

my birthday camera finally came in the mail. it took about three weeks to get here. val sent me some birthday money to get film developed with.
nash and i went downtown to take pictures the night after it arrived. we got there in time for the setting sun, and got some really good photos, first intown, and then over at the west end. i finished up the roll the next day at the farm.
these are the photos from downtown:

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this guy tried to sell us hemp. he seemed a little out of it, but didn't mind having his picture taken.

this is my favorite one off the roll.

more blackbird photos coming soon!

sheeet

2009-02-09T18:17:00.001-05:00

i found some really cool printable pdf projects- pinholes!!!
please make them and use them!

http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/free-pinhole-camera-templates-from-corbis/#more-513

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

enjoy.

no more

2009-01-25T22:26:00.004-05:00

PLEASE NOTE:
i don't know why, but if you google "the amazing photoblog of k.t. strasse" it links to this post. the following post reads as originally posted, but is not the most current post.

here is a link to the front page:
the amazing photoblog of k.t. Strasse

original post:

dear readers:
i will be taking a month long hiatus from photoblogging, starting now. i no longer have the resources to have film processed and printed. check back in a few weeks, i may have the pinhole test photos up, but i don't think i will be doing any sort of regular blogposts.
thank you.

k.t. strasse

at home

2009-01-24T02:06:00.000-05:00

these photos were taken on the same roll as the last set: 220 kodak fourhundredspeed. i like them quite a bit.

mom.

joe beagle.

party time at kirby's

2009-01-22T19:58:00.000-05:00

i loaded some 220 film into my holga. it was liberating to shoot that much film without having to change it. i spent two days shooting before i ran out of film. i used the advance guide found at squarefrog:
http://www.squarefrog.co.uk/holga-troubleshooting-220.html
these photos are from a party, i'd like to do some more double exposures using the wall of kents old room as a backdrop.

sarah and emily.

this photo frightens me.

i like the contrast in this one.

new pinhole!!!

2009-01-21T22:32:00.001-05:00

i made a matchbox pinhole camera last night. i think it will work way better than the last pinhole i made.
from the front:

from the back:

overhead:

you can see the two film canisters- one is for takeup. i took a couple of test pictures today, i think i will be getting the roll developed on saturday. i'll be keeping my fingers crossed!

RED

2009-01-20T18:51:00.000-05:00

i shot this roll of redscale film on friday night. i re-spooled the film after reading ndroo's article on redscale:
http://www.ndroo.com/blog/?p=30
i used my holga, to get panoramic photos with sprocket holes, but jerry at the photostore was unable to print them as panoramics. maybe i'll ask him to scan them using the six by six mask.

surprised nash print:

the negative:

just a little disappointing. i wish i had some sort of photo editing program so i could play with the negative a little bit.

heres the others:

nash and sarah are fun to take pictures of. i don't know how to say this, but they move together. the picture of them at the stove shows it. they seem really comfortable around each other.

2009-01-17T21:46:00.000-05:00

the guys.
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the neighbors

arundel

2009-01-17T21:35:00.001-05:00

clearing the ice.

the landing school hockey team.

the pasture. there are some cows if you look closely. really really closely.

from outside the stock room.

2009-01-11T13:35:00.000-05:00

peter and rick clearing the ice for hockey

i love

2009-01-11T13:29:00.000-05:00

kyle and i spent a whole day inside our boat, sanding the interior.

this is us.

this is my boat.

some of my classmates.

sean wearing green

2009-01-05T22:50:00.000-05:00

lots of summer

2009-01-05T22:47:00.000-05:00

work

2009-01-05T22:45:00.000-05:00

work? i think not.

2009-01-05T22:42:00.000-05:00

hard at work

2009-01-05T22:27:00.001-05:00

still catching up on summertime

2009-01-05T22:16:00.000-05:00

oops... missed these ones.

2009-01-04T23:43:00.000-05:00

oooh... so thats what summer is!

2009-01-04T23:35:00.000-05:00

sailing with the greenburgs

2009-01-04T23:28:00.000-05:00

brook's birthday

2009-01-04T23:24:00.000-05:00

frosties

2009-01-04T21:55:00.000-05:00

a photo

2008-05-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

i took this yesterday (5/23) right after i bought the camera. jesse helped me put 35mm film into the 120mm camera, and we took lots of pictures. when i had them processed, only one came out:

i'm not entirely sure why it looks the way it does, but i'm pretty happy with it. maybe i'll see if i can scan the negatives and put them up here.

welcome to all

2008-05-24T12:29:00.000-04:00

this is a special blog to celebrate me owning a camera and taking lots and lots of pictures of things.

this is my camera:

it cost less than thirty usd.