aaron schwab

last night’s shoot with Broken Enemy more than likely marks my last nighttime outdoor photoshoot of the year — taking photos of Carrie last tuesday wasn’t too bad and last Thursday with Kingdoms was tolerable (for those of us wearing more than a teeshirt, i’m sure) but last night was appropriately chilly for this time of year.

in addition to those three shoots, this past Saturday had me taking photos at Jeremy and Cara’s new tattoo shop — it was probably the last fifteen-degrees-and-sunny day we’ll have this year, and both the weather and the shoot were hugely enjoyable (and i’m looking forward to getting tattooed by Jeremy very much.) i’ll make sure to post a few samples from each shoot soon, as well as make some obligatory Facebook albums.

it’ll be nice to hopefully get all of the editing and printing i currently have to do off of my plate before next Monday, as i have a fairly large shoot that day that i’m really excited for, and i’d love to have an empty backlog of work to do before going into it. i’m sure i’ll post samples from that day as well once everything is done.

here’s a quick and simple sample from a shoot i did with Carrie tonight — it was only around 6:30 in the evening, but it was pitch black already. i’d hoped to get to this particular location in time for a sweet sunset, but that might have to wait until a weekend when we can be out and about at four o’clock. i’ll surely post a link once the rest are ready for show.

i stopped by Tall Ship Tattoos today after work, which is a brand new little tattoo shop in uptown Waterloo, run by a talented chap named Jeremy and his girlfriend Cara, an old collegemate of mine. the three of us went over a bunch of concepts for photos that they want for the shop’s website and walls, and i’m really happy that i’m getting to do some shooting for them this Saturday. Jeremy is super talented and works harder than most people i know and, though it’s new, i’d recommend his shop to everyone. can’t wait to show people the results of the shoot (which might spill into another day, as i have portrait ideas in mind for Jer and Cara themselves.)

other than that, i’m beyond excited on a few other photoshoots that are in the works, including a last-minute of of Carrie that i’ll be doing tomorrow evening. she’s wanted photos for awhile, so i figured what the hey, might as well squeeze some in in Kitchener tomorrow after a day of work (which is going super well, mind you, especially now that i’ve found a coffee shop within reach of where we’re shooting in the science department that sells a coffee and two cookies for $2.00. it’s enterpreneurships like that that make life wonderful, really.)

thusly, lots of photo-related news is on the way, up to and including my website, which is nearing fruition, moreso now than ever before. stay posted!

after hearing word of snowfall today from Cagney and from students at work, i finally got caught in this year’s first November Movember snowfall on my way back from a quick walk across the street. it was wet and surely won’t last with the upcoming warm weekend, but it was snow nonetheless. time to retire the spring jacket in favour of the pea coat indeed.

we’re currently shooting week one out of probably five or six of the science department at UW. the two previous weeks were spent in the AHS department and the three before that in engineering. suffice to say i’m feeling a little bit of shooting burnout at the end of each day, but it’s pushing me to go to bed earlier than later of late. schooting for the year will be done probably some time mid-next month, and i think i’ll celebrate by heading back to Jesse to get a ring in my nose in place of the current stud, as the piercing should be healed up completely by then. it was weird having this little metal dot on my nose for the first little while, but, as with my earlobes and tattoos, i got used to it quickly and now no longer see it as an extra item on my face.

other than being wetly snowed on a little tonight, my day’s highlight came with the drive home from work, on the way to drop Justin off at his place. every morning and evening, when going between Justin’s place and the university, we pass a sub shop called Sub Stop. according to Justin, who lives a stone’s throw from it, it’s been open for something like four years and in that time, neither himself nor any of his brothers have ever seen a customer inside. ever. it didn’t take much speculation to conclude that the place is probably a front for a drug-dealing op. well, if we didn’t shat ourselves this evening when we made our usual joke about the place as we drove by it, only to notice a customer at the cash register inside. it almose bummed me out to think that i wouldn’t be the first customer myself in there one of these Fridays on the way home from work, and i’m not entirely convinced that the man talking to the server behind the counter was actually a legitimate customer. regardless, seeing someone actually in Sub Stop made Justin and i break out in riotous laughter and whoops of “no way! no way!” needless to say, it became apparent to us tonight that taking over a thousand photos in a row during the day makes one slightly sleep-silly.

i’ll end this particularly rolicking entry with a film recommendation — Cagney and i watched our copy of Once for the first time last night and it was excellent. moving, almost, in a way i can’t explain. the nameless male lead of the film almost gives off a Damien Rice vibe (the Irishness being a contributing factor) and the songs that he performs, solo or with the “girl,” are stunningly beautiful and elegant and simple. i don’t want to start gushing like an overly-embellished Rolling Stone piece but it’s definitely a film worth seeing — half for the characters and their development throughout the film and their quirk and half for the musical content. i got a couple pangs of nostalgia while watching, actually, remembering when i was in a band that actually seemed to have a bright future at one point, and almost wished i was back there. see this film, though; if you don’t like it or love the characters, you probably have no soul (or i just like bad movies.)