Photography Bathroom Perspective Jon Hillenbrand, July 11, 2010October 17, 2019 It’s funny how some ordinary everyday objects take on a new life of their own depending on how you look at them. Of course, for someone like me who has -5.5 vision correction in both eyes, this is how the bathroom looks to me every morning when I haven’t put…
Photography Making bubbles Jon Hillenbrand, July 8, 2010October 17, 2019 Photoshop has been good to me. Since version 4.0 or so, I’ve been teaching myself successfully how to use it and having a lot of fun along the way. I’m always impressed with what it can do in such a short amount of time. Getting a Wacom tablet opened up…
Poetry If you forget me Jon Hillenbrand, June 26, 2010December 30, 2015 I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to…
Photography Canine Compound Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 Every morning, someone is out in the courtyard behind my bedroom window screaming “Duke,” in inadequately-hushed tones repetitively in some kind of valiant attempt to overcome the human-dog language barrier. Either that, or he is attempting to train a dog on the spot without supplying it with any commands. The…
Photography A is to B Jon Hillenbrand, June 22, 2010October 17, 2019 Blogging can be a rewarding and/or frustrating source of happiness/malaise. Forests require trees, fortune seems pale, fury seems petty and sometimes you just don’t feel like a good enough writer to compete with other talented bloggers using their accounts to the fullest. For example, let’s say that person A and…
Poetry Perspective Jon Hillenbrand, May 27, 2010December 30, 2015 This is a poem I wrote about how inspired to write I feel whenever I’m out running at night. Usually I think of a lot of things to write, but then I start to forget everything as fatigue sets in. Quick, run inside The words will hide Cuz’ words don’t…
Photography Auditorium Seats – YMCA Jon Hillenbrand, May 25, 2010October 17, 2019 Oh what drama the auditorium seats have seen. So passive in their demeanour, yet always watching with a soulless intensity eclipsed only by their occasional occupants. I took these shots at the Evanston YMCA’s ancient auditorium.
Photography Red Bull Air Races – San Diego Jon Hillenbrand, May 24, 2010October 17, 2019 I shot these photos when I went to visit my sister in sunny San Diego. Perfectly, I was there at the same exact time as the Red Bull Air Races. 🙂 [AFG_gallery id=’6′]
Photography Technostalgia Jon Hillenbrand, May 19, 2010October 17, 2019 You know that feeling when you look at older technology and marvel at the intricacies of their jeweled engineering? I have named this feeling technostalgia. Today, I was playing with a very old lens, an 85mm f/2 AI-S Nikkor lens which has no motors, no chips, no auto-focus, no communication with…
Photography Hooked up Jon Hillenbrand, May 18, 2010October 17, 2019 Funny how things work in the Corporate World. After 5 years of being blocked, Flickr was recently freed from the shackles of Big Brother’s proxy at my work. All it took was a single phone call from someone obviously much more important than I. Now, instead of having to bring…
Photography Evolve Jon Hillenbrand, May 13, 2010October 17, 2019 I had to shoot an annual meeting for a women’s group the other day. The client wasn’t asking for anything special, just some images to put on a newsletter, in a website or wherever they could find space. So I took the requisite pairings and crowd shots but then later concentrated…
Poetry The Red Doorway Jon Hillenbrand, May 12, 2010December 30, 2015 The red door dustily banged open temporarily scrubbing the dirty grout of the men’s conversation. She paused there in the opening, a sudden wind taking its cue to wrap around her silken form the particles of the failing daylight. Her swollen pout threw daggers at the men, her final words a
Photography The Allure of Garbage Food Jon Hillenbrand, May 8, 2010October 17, 2019 Some of you will simply not be with me during this post. But today I was talking to a friend of mine on the phone and she mentioned that she was going into a Costco to buy some food in good ol’ American portions. So I excitedly asked her to…
Photography Fortune’s Fool Jon Hillenbrand, May 4, 2010October 17, 2019 Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old…
Photography The Two Year Time Lapse Jon Hillenbrand, April 25, 2010October 17, 2019 The BBC, inspired by such films as Baraka, has brought a revolution to mainstream documentary filmmaking, specifically Planet Earth and now Life. Many of the mind-blowing shots are done on location, but several would be impossible to do out in the randomness of the great outdoors. The below behind-the-scenes video demonstrates…