What is Steampunk?

October 7th, 2009

I’ve been meaning to tackle this subject for a while, especially for all of you who find your way here through my other work and want to know what all this is about.

However, for now there are better writer’s takling about that. It’s steampunk month over at Tor.com and G.D Falksen has written an excellent piece called Steampunk 101. It’s a good primer to get started with and I hope to see more interesting thoughts in the comments.

It also features several of my photos, along with those of several other photographer. Go take a read, then come back and look through more of my photos.

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Steampunk party

October 7th, 2009

Not sure if I will be there yet, but if you’re in NYC you can check this out:

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NYAF and Dragon Con

September 24th, 2009

Where I’m going and where I’ve been…

I will be at NY Anime Fest this weekend on Saturday. I will be helping my friends over at Cosclips with their photobooth for half of the day, and probably photographing the con the rest of the time. If you see me say hi, or stop by the booth if you want to find me.

I was also at DragonCon, but for a number of reasons it was a bit low key. No planned photoshoots, but a few were still done and will be posted up soon.

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Time Traveller’s Picnic

August 11th, 2009

Just over a week ago I travelled up to the NY Ren Faire to both see the Faire and attend the Time Traveller’s picnic steampunk meet up.

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New York Ren Faire

July 29th, 2009

Last year at about this time I attended the Renaissance Fair in Tuxedo, NY for the Chrononaut’s Time Travel Picnic.

It appears it is becoming an annual event, as the third one will be this Saturday. I will be there, camera and goggles at the ready. :) If you’ve wanted to go to a steampunk meetup in the area, I’d recommend coming by for the meet, then enjpying the rest of the day at the faire. And I always look forward to meeting some new people!

From last year’s picnic:

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Photoset on Flickr

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Steampunk Fashions

July 14th, 2009

More photos from the Snap shoot last month. (One more post on these). Most of the steampunk and victorian styled outfits here are from Berit New York with additional props from Brute Force Leather

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Full set on Flickr

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Snap preview

June 21st, 2009

The project I’ve been closing up this week has kept me from fully processing the Snap photos from last week, but I wanted to post a preview before I head off for a week.

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Design by Emilie Jerard

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Design by Berit New York

I was working on a station with a white background, so most of my photos are high key, clean portraits. I did a little outside but the rain moved in a nixed the shoots I had a planned later in the day.

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Only a few photos up at the moment, but you can check my Flickr page over the next 24 hours to hopefully see a few more. Otherwise they go up after next week.

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Victorian Steampunk in Central Park

June 16th, 2009

One outing I did manage to make during my hiatus was a picnic held in Central Park in May. It ended up being more of a challenge then expected, as I chose to drive in to NYC and that was the day there was a car fire in the Lincoln tunnel. Some some 2+ hours later I finally emerged on the green about an hour into the meetup.

Complete set at flickr
After settling in and catching up with everyone it was time to get down to business and many photos were taken. Mr Falsken and Ayleen moved over to some rocks for a few shots, where they immediately took the high ground for shots that came out unintentionally looking a bit Firefly

Always take the high ground

Steampunk picnic


Then on to some group shots:

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Mr Wahnsinger

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Amy and Ali each posed on the bridge

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See the rest at the flickr set

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Back from SNAPmup

June 14th, 2009
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I had a great time yesterday attending the SNAP Alt Couture photo session in Bayonne, NJ. Britney of Berit New York, who I worked with at Wicked Faire, and Emilie Jerard brought some amazing stuff, and all of the model were great to work with. Pictures, of course, will be forthcoming.

If you’re coming here because we met at the shoot, welcome!

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Where’s Tyrus?

June 10th, 2009

Ok, so I’ve had one quick post in the last 3 months.

I recently started a new project that has kept me very busy, and I have been away from many things including much of my online life. What could be so time consuming ? Fatherhood :)
Yes, In March we added a new addition to our household, and while he hasn’t completely monopolized my time, a combination of things have. But this project wil last for a very long time, so I am slowly returning to the digital world and learning to adjust.

I expect to start posting back here again. As far as new material goes, I attended an event a few weeks ago which is currently moving up to flickr. I also have a few thing coming up over the next few weeks that I am looking forward to.

Finally, I hope to expand things a bit here. I’ve been focused on the steampunk and cosplay stuff, but I started this blog figuring I could cover many more aspects of my photography, so that should start working its way in soon too,

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