It's the economy, stupid, or stupid economy

I dunno, I wish the weather would warm up so I can take some pix, it's no fun when the camera freezes up, I've tried a spare battery warmed up in my pocket. I guess when it's 5 below, nothing wants to work. Speaking of work, lately it seems I have taken a step back in time..to kindergarten, new year, new rules no drinking or eating at your workstation, I can understand it to a point, but dammit..I need my Starbucks! Mandatory break and lunch times...come on! we are all over the age of 18, why should we be punished for the stupidness of others? I feel that after 12 plus years of document experience I can be trusted not to steal time or spill food or drink. If I want to take a break I should be able to be trusted to take it at a time when I want. Maybe some people will sympathize with me or maybe not. A lot of people are affected by this, not just me we all hate the new rules. It's like the company wants to make sure we all know our place, well they made that perfectly clear! Maybe things will get better or I will win the lottery....

cabin fever

Damn, it's been so cold! I can't wait for warmer weather to get here so I can do some shooting. There are so many places that lend themselves to exploration, when the weather gets warmer. I am on the lookout for urban areas or places with old buildings or graffiti, one or the other I don't care.

Sold my first print.

This obviously isn't the type of photo I would post on my blog, but this is one of my recent attempts at night photography. This is the 3rd avenue bridge in Minneapolis looking toward downtown, off in the distance is the "Wells Fargo Center"

trains and graffiti

I named my blog "Industrial Canvas" because the things I mostly like to take pictures of are old buildings and train. The reason being is that old buildings and trains are prime targets for graffiti artists, hence the name
Industrial Canvas because the taggers are using these as a canvas of sorts. One of the things I like doing (when the weather gets a little warmer) is going over to the tracks at off of Hiawatha and photographing the "art". Also another fave is photographing old buildings, ex. power plants, mills, anything interesting looking. There is a rail yard in St Paul I like photographing because it has this cool building and I believe a train that is run remotely in the yard, it makes these scary "clacking" or sparking type of sound as its sitting there with the motor running. One of the photos I uploaded is from the Kurth malting plant in Minneapolis. I don't know, I just like how it looks.

Selling my photos

http://krstl_blu.imagekind.com">Buy my art at Imagekind!

Some more of my photos are being displayed at my work. Hopefully some clients will see them. Maybe someone will buy them too. This is a few of my pictures that I think are actually worth buying.