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Palisade Head, Minnesota

It feels like yesterday! Happy Dick-Cheney-Shot-a-Guy-in-the-Face day.

Assumption, Ohio

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Photography Exhibit & Letterpress Studio Open House
Saturday, February 20, 2010
7:00pm - 11:00pm

221 Felch, #B3A
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Join us for an open house at Michigan’s newest design and letterpress printing studio, Elevated Press. Founder Michelle Baker will be showing off work by the studio, and the 75 to 110 year old machines used to produce it.

Also on display, the photographs of Peter Baker, whose work has been exhibited around the country and the rest of the world, as well as appeared in numerous magazines including Metropolis, I.D., and How. He will be showing recent work focusing on the state of Michigan, as well as previous works.

Greeting cards, prints, and limited edition photographs will all be on sale.

Forest Juziuk will be providing the musical styling, and J. Trees Cellars will be providing their newest varieties of wine.

[This will be the first in a series of 3 local artist exhibitions at the space, with a larger culminating group show in another space. These shows are planned for March 6th, March 20th, and April 3rd.]

jeffdiogenes asked: Ever consider geotagging the photos you upload? Maybe they are already, but a map of where you took the picture would be interesting.

Always good work though.

I actually do sometimes. There is no automatic geotagging of film, but as often as I can stand, I map the shots either with a shot on my iPhone (which does auto-tag), or from memory. You can see a very incomplete map on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterbaker/map/

rebloghaven asked: Why do you shoot in film instead of digital?

If it didn’t look a million times better, I wouldn’t bother with it. Of course it’s subjective, but film looks more like what I saw when I made the photo. Plus, I like making decisions about what my photo will look like before I take it, rather than monkeying for hours on the computer to try and recreate what I saw. Photography is what I do to get away from the ‘puter, digital just makes for more sitting down time.

janado asked: i'm curious: what do you shoot with?

I use Hasselblad and a Mamiya 6 medium format, a Wista 4x5 for large format, and a Canon 5DII for the digital. Almost always with Kodak Portra, for the creaminess.

nuzz asked: Chunky or smooth peanut butter?

Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don’t.

If any of y’all want to go in there and recommend ptrbkr.com for the Tumblr Directory, well that would just be swell. Let’s get a few more non-Brooklynites in there, eh?

Livonia, Michigan

Sandy Carson’s winning entry in the Picture Black Friday contest. I would’ve loved to have taken part, but I just couldn’t bring myself to go anywhere near a store that day.