We have had a tough couple of days around the B-holt residence. I’m sure that I’ll eventually get to that in a later post. But we have definitely been staying busy. I shot some pretty interesting stuff (to me) on Friday and Saturday. I come from a family with a strong quilting heritage. I don’t know to what extent is has carried over to my generation. But, it seems like there was always some quilt that my mom (and usually at least one of her sisters) was working on, when I was growing up. My grandmother on my father’s side (who just turned 90 on Saturday), still makes a quilt for every new great-grandkid in the family (FYI, there are more than I can count on 50 fingers). If that’s not enough, we get it from Reagan’s side too. Both of our mom’s always run into each other at state quilt guild conventions. Yes, both of our mom’s are active members of the Utah State Quilt Guild. I personally think that is pure awesome. So, it is safe to say that I was raised to appreciate the art of quilting and the significance in American heritage and Culture. I’ll be honest though, I never thought I would be shooting or blogging about quilts. Buuuuuttttt, it just so happens that the American Folk Art Museum is currently holding an exhibition of American red and white quilts at the Park Avenue Armory. I ended up shooting it for Curated Mag. I was blown away. Not saying that these photos do it any justice, but scroll down for a couple of more looks.

Ok, if you made it this far down the post, then maybe you will be interested in what I shot on Saturday morning. HS teamed up with Nike for an editorial story featuring the new Kobe collection, at a little league soccer game in the Bronx. The game was at 11:30 and I was worried that everything would be washed out with the sun that high in the sky. I guess it is lucky (for me) that we are still in early spring, because I don’t feel like the images came out that bad. I just hope that the people whose opinion matters, feel the same. Here are a few–

This last one had nothing to do with the product, but I just like the wide shot with the green turf and blue sky.

Last night was the super moon. To be perfectly honest, it didn’t appear any larger to me than it has on previous occasions. But, it was very very bright. We were on the roof when it rose, and it was a very dark shade of yellow from all of the pollution. It was kind of a cool effect. I got a couple of shots when it was low in the sky, but I wasn’t super stoked about any of them. I did, however, quite like the one that I posted above. This was shot after the moon was much higher in the sky. Here are a few other times that I have shot the moon from our house: one time and another time.

Earlier Saturday evening, we were shooting some tutorials for Reagan’s hair blog. There was a cat on the fire escape that was meowing super loud. I think that it must have wandered up and become stuck. Anyway, we finally let it in, so that it would shut up. We immediately thought better of it. So, we put it back out. The cat then leaped from the fire escape to the sill of an adjacent window that was open (at least 3 or 4 feet away). and came back in.

Ultimately, I had to carry it down stairs and put it back out into the alley.

Backing up, a bit– Friday was beautiful. The high was well into the 70′s. I thought about going for an evening run, but then had a better idea. I called a couple of friends and we had a longboarding session in Central Park. I also brought along a little hand-held video camera (same one Jon used to shoot this), and some L.E.D. panels. I have been wanting to shoot a longboarding video since I saw this one, that I posted the other day. So, I figured I could get some ideas, shooting with the crappy camera for when we really go back and do it right. I think that having the moon out was key. Anyway, here is what we shot Friday night.

It is a rainy Friday in this neck of the woods. It has been a rough couple of days. Our hosting has been on the fritz. We were offline for about half of the day, yesterday. So freaking annoying. Anyway, I shot this pretty cool thing at the Reed Space last night. I picked up a shirt from the event, featuring some of the artist’s work. Then I promptly left it somewhere. Then it started raining. When I got home, I had to run right back out into the rain to get some gatorade and crackers for my sickly little wife (who is finally feeling better this morning). And it is still raining. But all of that is ok, because it is once again Friday. Friday means reprieve. The photos above and below are just some crap that I snapped last night while I was waiting for the F train at Delancey. I liked the bokeh that the track signals made.

Have a great weekend!

The long weekend was a lot more blah than I was hoping it to be. I did our taxes, confirming my suspicions that we owed a lot. The weather was cold, windy and gross. Then to top it off, we got more snow on Monday (above).  Don’t get me wrong, the visits with Piper were great. In fact, she did something that really made me proud. She totally dismantled a little toy piano (in the foreground, below) that Reagan got for her a few months ago.

Luckily, I was able to put it back together. Piper wanted to help, so bad. Reagan had to really restrain her. Hahahah.

Anyway, today I have decided to cast off the blah. I woke up super early and took Greta in for her 90 Day service. The poor girl was already starting to fall apart on us (slowly leaking tire and malfunctioning touch screen). So, she will likely be in the shop until Friday. Then I came into work super early and was able to get a jump on things. Even though the temps won’t break the 20′s today, it is supposed to get gradually warmer as the week wears on. I’m hoping to take advantage and put a few more km’s on my running shoes before our first race, coming up in March.

Things to look forward to: 1. Sam (my brother) will be back here in a week; 2. MotoGP 2011 season now starts in less than one month; 3. After we pay taxes (probably later this week), we can start planning a spring vacay.

I dreamed about snowboarding all night, then woke up to 4 inches of snow on the ground and this video in multiple spots on my reader feed. Sometimes life is so cruel. Happy Presidents Day.

Since Monday, it has been kind of a “blah” week. I think that a lot of it has to do with the weather. It is still bloody cold as all get out. But at least the sun is out today. It never feels as cold when there is a little bit of solar radiation making its way through the atmosphere.

Last night, one of Reagan’s friends came over and was a hair model for some HDOF tutorials (above). We had a pretty fun time shooting and hanging out. I’m really looking forward to getting this weekend started. Reagan’s B-day is tomorrow night (we will be going out to dinner). Then later this weekend we are going to try to organize a little get-together with some friends to go bowling. Yes, we will be having our own super BOWL. Hahahaha. I wish that I could take credit for the cheesy pun. M. Cuomo came up with it. Enjoy the sunshine!

of the photos this winter, where Greta is buried in the snow.

This was a real treat to dig out. At least I had the shovel that I bought Reagan for Christmas.

I was really excited to see Piper today. After freeing Greta from her snowy moorings, I found it impossible to navigate the streets of our neighborhood. Almost all of the taxis are rear wheel drive. Since everyone digging out their cars, where just throwing the snow into the street (because where else can you throw it?) taxis were stuck all over the place. After trying to get the the parkway entrance for about 45 minutes, I saw someone pulling out of a spot they had just cleared, about two car lengths in front of me. I decided that I should probably just take the spot and hope for better luck tomorrow. That is just kind of how things have been for me, the last couple of days. Yes, I’m complaining, a little bit. Sorry.

Sick of the snow photos, yet?  I shot a couple of galleries tonight. Some of it was cool, but not worth posting on JNB.  I’m currently feeling super uninspired. FYI sunset shots are through an extremely dirty window (don’t hate). 2 days until Reagan is back, not that I’m counting down. Ok, maybe. Here are a couple of other shots from today/tonight. And that’s basically I gotst.

Last night I had a pretty fun editorial shoot for Edwin Jeans, using hip hop artist Gilbere Forte as the model. Here is a sample:

I’ll post the set to shotbyjake.com when I finish editing, etc..

Reagan was able to get to Michigan, safe and sound. Today is another blizzard, to liven up my already hectic day. That’s pretty much the gist of what’s going on over here.

And when it is cold like this, Reagan wears her huge hairy hat. She has been playing a fun little game where he tries to do outfit posts each day leading up to her b-day. It has been kind of fun shooting some of them for her, for the 3 days this month that she has been in town. Ok, I guess a few more than 3 (barely). We shot the image above* walking home, after parking the car Saturday. Best part about the image: Reagan is still rocking her “Visitor” badge from Piper’s house.

Alas, I will begin bachelor life again tomorrow. Reagan will be headed to the midwest to meet the new baby of one of her close friends. I feel like she just got back from her last trip. On the bright side, I am booked so deep this week that it should fly by. I’m actually starting to feel tired just from writing about it. I’ll be shooting a few projects that I’m pretty excited about though.

*As an uninteresting side note, I snapped the shot above with our new (old) 5D. I picked it up off of CL, intending to give it to Reagan for her B-day. I learned from her that same day that she actually wanted something completely different. Since I had scored the 5D for such a great price, I decided to keep it for a back-up body/walk around cam. I have only used it handful of times (as ZT perceptively noticed when I posted this shot), but I really like it.