You know when a pile is the result of several small piles then piled together? Well I've been going through one of these piles. Since I'm a photographer, and have been for over 205 years now every pile I have, somewhere within it, there are photographs. I have slide boxes of photographs shot on slide film, I have slides in slide holders in three ring binders. I have prints and negatives, boy do I have negatives---and thats not even counting the 3 or 400 discs I now have with images. Anyway, when I go through these piles I end up looking at pictures and remembering them and thinking of things I can do with them. When I was between 16 and 24 I hung out with Chris, Joel and Ray alot. I have thousands of pictures of them. One thing we used to do alot was go to the beach--never in the summer time, always in the winter. The winter beach is my favorite. I took this picture, I believe on New Years Day. The absence of Ray tells me we were probably in high school still and Ray would've been grounded, but the vignetting sort of leads me to believe that maybe it was after high school (vignetting was from the UV filter rim on a very cheap lens that I had directly after school) and maybe Ray was behind me. Joel is hunched over because he was cold--Joel was always cold because he only wore a t-shirt, maybe a flannel and his leather. I used to love rolling the window down in the VW bug and listening to him complain about how cold it was. Anyway, I still lie this funny ad/fashion shot of Chris. Chris was also the guy leaning against the no trespassing sign I posted back in the beginning of May. Old school photograph on slide film by Richard Sayer(I made this digital copy by holding the slide up to a light and shooting it with my Micro 55mm lens)
Damn, I am at a loss for words. So, I will just give you a thumbs up! Love the post & of course the picture. I mean really, hold me back- that Chris man is hot.