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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Created a photography page on Facebook.
I want to see 1,000 fans by the end of the year.
Eric's Photography on Facebook. BE A FRIEND!
I want to see 1,000 fans by the end of the year.
Eric's Photography on Facebook. BE A FRIEND!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Welcome back. Let me start off by forewarning you that this will be a long post.
So, this past week I have a had a lot on my mind. Stressed but not so much in a very bad way. Lately, all I have been doing is focusing on my automotive photography, that I sometimes forget what makes me who I am and what makes me happy. I have been in the zone way to much. I mean, I love going out to meet people and looking to shoot their cars, editing pictures and the whole 9 yards, but throughout my 21 years of living, I have always enjoyed multiple things to do.
At dinner on Tuesday night, my Mother was talking to me about shooting other things than cars. She really enjoys my other photography, like landscapes, flowers and other random things that I have shot in the past. At first, I said no way! I love shooting cars and it's my main goal. But the thought of taking a break from cars never left my mind....
Well, as this stressed built up during the week, I decided that I need some alone time to clear my head. And last week, the weather here was AMAZING! Not to hot during the day and the nights were nice with a little chill, just the way I like it. Thursday I had to work 2-7pm and I was trying to figure what to do that night, go to the bar for $1 beers, go shoot the shit (fishing) with my friends, or sit home and edit pictures like I have been doing for the past 3 weeks. But no, I decided that this was the night to have all to myself. I wanted to take advantage of the weather and listen to what my Mother said to me earlier in the week. What better way to do that than walk on a beach and takes pictures of the beautiful sunset? And that's what I did.
After work, I drove home as fast as possible, changed my smelly clothes, hopped back in my car, and drive down the shoreline. A few weeks prior to this, my buddy Soosh and I went fishing at Keansburg pier. It was our first time there and I was in love. The pier was just about a mile long and was prepped with just about everything you need for fishing. The sunset was amazing and it was easy for me to pick my beach to take pictures of.
I arrived there at a reasonable time, about two hours before the sun disappeared. Paid my $1.25 parking ticket, put my phone on silent and threw into my camera gear bag and I was off. It was kind of sketchy walking up the wooden planks. Keansburg isn't the nicest looking town, actually its a shit whole, but with my photographic eye, I knew I was going to snap some great photos. The sight there was beautiful! I was snapping shots left and right. There was no one one on the beach and I couldn't see anyone fishing off the pier to the right of me and I loved it! I had the beach all to myself.
So after about 30 photographs taken and a some lenses changed, I felt it was time to clear my head more. In all honestly, I was mostly thinking about writing this post and letting everyone know how I feel as I walked back and forth along the beach. I found a log near by, so I put my camera away and just sat and watched the sunset.
I realized a lot of things that night. Everyone has a place to go to, where everything in their mind gets thrown out the window. Maybe some people haven't found their location yet, but it's there and once you find it, you will know for sure. I have realized that my location to forget about everything is near the ocean. The small waves crashing below your feet as your toes are sinking through wet sand does it for me. Everything from that week left my head and I have never felt so refreshened inside before. It was like a new Eric, or Erock as some would say. I absolutely loved it! This made me take my thinking a little further and think about my relationship with the ocean. Last year and a lot of this year, my cousin Danny, Soosh and myself went out fishing all the time and we still do. We have yet to catch a fish this year out of the maybe 20 times we went out this year. That didn't matter to me though, or anyone else. We had fun and that's what fishing is all about. Yeah, maybe they had fun to, but deep down, I couldn't have asked for anything more. Want to know why? Because I was near the ocean. The sound of the waves hitting the piers or just looking at the reflections of the lights on the calm surface of the water really made me fall in love with the ocean. I was with my hommies, attempting to fish, eating a Wawa sub, dicking around and watching the ripples in the water really made fishing such an enjoyable time for me. I could do it everyday, honestly.
I can go on and on with this post and I will later on this evening or maybe tomorrow. I wrote all this and I didn't even include my Forth of July weekend, LOL! Well, today is the 4th and this concludes my writings for now.
Here is one of my edits from the night. I promise to have more up soon.
Have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July.
Happy Birthday America.
This post was dedicated to my Mother for encouraging me to shoot other things, thanks Mom!
So, this past week I have a had a lot on my mind. Stressed but not so much in a very bad way. Lately, all I have been doing is focusing on my automotive photography, that I sometimes forget what makes me who I am and what makes me happy. I have been in the zone way to much. I mean, I love going out to meet people and looking to shoot their cars, editing pictures and the whole 9 yards, but throughout my 21 years of living, I have always enjoyed multiple things to do.
At dinner on Tuesday night, my Mother was talking to me about shooting other things than cars. She really enjoys my other photography, like landscapes, flowers and other random things that I have shot in the past. At first, I said no way! I love shooting cars and it's my main goal. But the thought of taking a break from cars never left my mind....
Well, as this stressed built up during the week, I decided that I need some alone time to clear my head. And last week, the weather here was AMAZING! Not to hot during the day and the nights were nice with a little chill, just the way I like it. Thursday I had to work 2-7pm and I was trying to figure what to do that night, go to the bar for $1 beers, go shoot the shit (fishing) with my friends, or sit home and edit pictures like I have been doing for the past 3 weeks. But no, I decided that this was the night to have all to myself. I wanted to take advantage of the weather and listen to what my Mother said to me earlier in the week. What better way to do that than walk on a beach and takes pictures of the beautiful sunset? And that's what I did.
After work, I drove home as fast as possible, changed my smelly clothes, hopped back in my car, and drive down the shoreline. A few weeks prior to this, my buddy Soosh and I went fishing at Keansburg pier. It was our first time there and I was in love. The pier was just about a mile long and was prepped with just about everything you need for fishing. The sunset was amazing and it was easy for me to pick my beach to take pictures of.
I arrived there at a reasonable time, about two hours before the sun disappeared. Paid my $1.25 parking ticket, put my phone on silent and threw into my camera gear bag and I was off. It was kind of sketchy walking up the wooden planks. Keansburg isn't the nicest looking town, actually its a shit whole, but with my photographic eye, I knew I was going to snap some great photos. The sight there was beautiful! I was snapping shots left and right. There was no one one on the beach and I couldn't see anyone fishing off the pier to the right of me and I loved it! I had the beach all to myself.
So after about 30 photographs taken and a some lenses changed, I felt it was time to clear my head more. In all honestly, I was mostly thinking about writing this post and letting everyone know how I feel as I walked back and forth along the beach. I found a log near by, so I put my camera away and just sat and watched the sunset.
I realized a lot of things that night. Everyone has a place to go to, where everything in their mind gets thrown out the window. Maybe some people haven't found their location yet, but it's there and once you find it, you will know for sure. I have realized that my location to forget about everything is near the ocean. The small waves crashing below your feet as your toes are sinking through wet sand does it for me. Everything from that week left my head and I have never felt so refreshened inside before. It was like a new Eric, or Erock as some would say. I absolutely loved it! This made me take my thinking a little further and think about my relationship with the ocean. Last year and a lot of this year, my cousin Danny, Soosh and myself went out fishing all the time and we still do. We have yet to catch a fish this year out of the maybe 20 times we went out this year. That didn't matter to me though, or anyone else. We had fun and that's what fishing is all about. Yeah, maybe they had fun to, but deep down, I couldn't have asked for anything more. Want to know why? Because I was near the ocean. The sound of the waves hitting the piers or just looking at the reflections of the lights on the calm surface of the water really made me fall in love with the ocean. I was with my hommies, attempting to fish, eating a Wawa sub, dicking around and watching the ripples in the water really made fishing such an enjoyable time for me. I could do it everyday, honestly.
I can go on and on with this post and I will later on this evening or maybe tomorrow. I wrote all this and I didn't even include my Forth of July weekend, LOL! Well, today is the 4th and this concludes my writings for now.
Here is one of my edits from the night. I promise to have more up soon.
Have a safe and enjoyable 4th of July.
Happy Birthday America.
This post was dedicated to my Mother for encouraging me to shoot other things, thanks Mom!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Aftermath of this past weekend.
First comes first, IT WAS WAY TO HOT OUT!!!!!!
Both Saturday and Sunday were very very hot days out, unbearable. Saturday after work, I took a shower and headed over to Raceway Park to check out Wrecked Moves. B/C groups had about 16 drivers total come out and drive for the day. Not that many showed up, but the drivers that did, had hella lot of time on the track and just what they need to improve themselves and move up. I've been following and watching these guys for over a year now and you can really see some huge improvements on their skills and upgrading the cars real nice! Having to go to Wawa multiple times for Gatorade and water, it still didn't not help me from almost fainting out there in the sun; it was not very pleasurable. It was good to see many of the XDC drivers attend and practice for their upcoming XDC event at Raceway in August. I saw a bunch of sick cars that I have never seen before, including a LS swapped 350Z. He was tearing up the track at very high speeds and the car sounded amazing! I took a few photos of some of the drivers that I know and also kept a close eye on Steve Angerman of Gardella Racing. ;)
Sunday, I headed back to Raceway again for Summer Slam. Summer Slam is a huge car show with music played on stage, drag racing and bikini contests. My intentions on going there were for meeting new people, look for nice cars to shoot, and just relax with some friends. I achieved all that, minus the relaxing part. It was just as hot as Saturday and walking around in circles did not seem very fun at all. I did what I had to do and left early. I don't care that I spent the $20 to get in and leave early, I just had to get out of there ASAP!
So, I should have a few photos done from this weekend posted up sometime during this week. I'm not going to rush it because they are nothing special. However, this week I have a lot of work ahead of me with spot locating and shooting a car or two, so stay tuned for that.
Aside from these events this weekend, I got around to picking up an Apple Magic Mouse that I wanted. I wanted one for editing because there would be no way I can edit photos on this laptop pad. I haven't tried it out yet but here is a link to the mouse that I purchased. I have read a lot of reviews about it and I can see it being VERY useful for me.
Well, that's it for me tonight. I have spent many hours at my day job, shooting events and practice on almost fainting multiple times this past weekend. With that said- f**k you New Jersey weather.
Gnight
EC
Both Saturday and Sunday were very very hot days out, unbearable. Saturday after work, I took a shower and headed over to Raceway Park to check out Wrecked Moves. B/C groups had about 16 drivers total come out and drive for the day. Not that many showed up, but the drivers that did, had hella lot of time on the track and just what they need to improve themselves and move up. I've been following and watching these guys for over a year now and you can really see some huge improvements on their skills and upgrading the cars real nice! Having to go to Wawa multiple times for Gatorade and water, it still didn't not help me from almost fainting out there in the sun; it was not very pleasurable. It was good to see many of the XDC drivers attend and practice for their upcoming XDC event at Raceway in August. I saw a bunch of sick cars that I have never seen before, including a LS swapped 350Z. He was tearing up the track at very high speeds and the car sounded amazing! I took a few photos of some of the drivers that I know and also kept a close eye on Steve Angerman of Gardella Racing. ;)
Sunday, I headed back to Raceway again for Summer Slam. Summer Slam is a huge car show with music played on stage, drag racing and bikini contests. My intentions on going there were for meeting new people, look for nice cars to shoot, and just relax with some friends. I achieved all that, minus the relaxing part. It was just as hot as Saturday and walking around in circles did not seem very fun at all. I did what I had to do and left early. I don't care that I spent the $20 to get in and leave early, I just had to get out of there ASAP!
So, I should have a few photos done from this weekend posted up sometime during this week. I'm not going to rush it because they are nothing special. However, this week I have a lot of work ahead of me with spot locating and shooting a car or two, so stay tuned for that.
Aside from these events this weekend, I got around to picking up an Apple Magic Mouse that I wanted. I wanted one for editing because there would be no way I can edit photos on this laptop pad. I haven't tried it out yet but here is a link to the mouse that I purchased. I have read a lot of reviews about it and I can see it being VERY useful for me.
Well, that's it for me tonight. I have spent many hours at my day job, shooting events and practice on almost fainting multiple times this past weekend. With that said- f**k you New Jersey weather.
Gnight
EC
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Interested in knowing who I am?
Hello and welcome to my blog. I figured it was time for me start a blog to record all of my shootings, past and present events, and my travels here.
For those who don't know me, I am Eric Chandler. Born October 9th, 21 years ago. My hobbies consist of photography, traveling, working on cars, and hanging out when available. My main goal for this year is to focus on my automotive photography and push my self to the limits! I am a freelance photographer and most of my images can be found here: Eric Chandler Photography and some of my features on Canibeat!
So far this year, I have met many photographers that I have looked up to in the past and really admire their work, and I have even teamed up with them to do photoshoots!
Here is a list of goals for the rest of 2010 for me-
- Cover Formula D Las Vegas and/or Irwindale, Ca
- Feature 5 or more cars on Canibeat
- Purchase a 70-200mm VR2
My list was longer in the beginning of the year, but I have already fulfilled many of those goals! =)
Photography Background Information
I first picked up a camera on my 19th birthday. It was a Nikon D40 w/ 18-55mm kit lens! I LOVED it. The following day, my girlfriend at the time and I, drove to Philadelphia Zoo and I had a blast taking pictures. You can see that gallery by clicking here. Today this day, I am pretty impressed with those shots and very happy that my Mom bought me my first camera. I still have it today and it isn't going anywhere, thanks Mom!
Currently Gear-
Nikon D80
Nikon D40
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-5
Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6
Alien Bees
Vagabond
Cyber Syncs
ect ect
Blah blah blah, you get the idea.
Check out my most recent coverage on my FlickR here
We'll it's getting late and I have a long weekend of shooting a lot and working! Grrr
This will updated just about everyday!
Thanks for checking it out.
Erock!
For those who don't know me, I am Eric Chandler. Born October 9th, 21 years ago. My hobbies consist of photography, traveling, working on cars, and hanging out when available. My main goal for this year is to focus on my automotive photography and push my self to the limits! I am a freelance photographer and most of my images can be found here: Eric Chandler Photography and some of my features on Canibeat!
So far this year, I have met many photographers that I have looked up to in the past and really admire their work, and I have even teamed up with them to do photoshoots!
Here is a list of goals for the rest of 2010 for me-
- Cover Formula D Las Vegas and/or Irwindale, Ca
- Feature 5 or more cars on Canibeat
- Purchase a 70-200mm VR2
My list was longer in the beginning of the year, but I have already fulfilled many of those goals! =)
Photography Background Information
I first picked up a camera on my 19th birthday. It was a Nikon D40 w/ 18-55mm kit lens! I LOVED it. The following day, my girlfriend at the time and I, drove to Philadelphia Zoo and I had a blast taking pictures. You can see that gallery by clicking here. Today this day, I am pretty impressed with those shots and very happy that my Mom bought me my first camera. I still have it today and it isn't going anywhere, thanks Mom!
Currently Gear-
Nikon D80
Nikon D40
Nikkor 35mm f/1.8
Nikkor 50mm f/1.8
Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-5
Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6
Alien Bees
Vagabond
Cyber Syncs
ect ect
Blah blah blah, you get the idea.
Check out my most recent coverage on my FlickR here
We'll it's getting late and I have a long weekend of shooting a lot and working! Grrr
This will updated just about everyday!
Thanks for checking it out.
Erock!
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