Heavy Metal Model Shoot: Green Bay Photographer

This past weekend I took part in a large model shot put together by the STUN photography group in Green Bay. The shoot took place at a factory in De Pere, Wisconsin. As only my second time doing this sort of thing, it took me a bit to get in the groove, and I didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but it was a great learning experience, and I made some cool connections.

Check out the shots! I know some are a bit obviously staged, but it was hard to get around all the people milling about and I don't like to crop in that much. I feel it adds to the experience.

Thanks for looking!

Green Bay Cell Phone Photographer

So I just realized that my cell phone actually takes awesome photos! I just never got around to uploading. This is gonna be fun! Here's the batch of photos that have been sitting on my phone...

not all of them, just the best and brightest (=

for information, i just realized that I love to start my blogs with the word so... don't know why that is really. Gues i like the word so, hmmm

Green Bay Lego Photographer

I haven't shot as much this last week. Well that's not entirely true, I've been shooting some film, and I gotta wait some time until I get that back. Had a really great shoot in the campus lighting studio today, medium format style.

To tide my wonderful followers over, here's some lego portraits I photographed recently.

It rained on our parade: Manitowoc Photographer

My wife and I ventured out to the Manitowoc parade tonight, and it rained. Yup, rained all night. We were cold, (mostly cuz of the wetness), and kinda bored. The floats were really spaced out, some as much as four whole blocks from each other, and almost none had any music.

However, we did manage to have a splendid time anyways! I shot in B&W as we got some coffee at Beerntsen's Confectionery, and walked around downtown Manitowoc. It was actually a blast, and we had fun taking some goofy photos, as I hope you can see (=

Enjoy the silliness, and have an awesome Thanksgiving everyone! I am thankful for so much, including the fact that I have ten whole followers! So cool to know some people actually care about my work. I'm thankful for a loving God, a beautiful wife, awesome family and so much more. Life can suck, it really can, but I do believe as long as we remember the good things we've been blessed with, that we can never lose our hope.

Have a blessed weekend!

Mamiya Super 23 for sale!

Hey everyone.

So, unfortunately, the time has come for me to once again try to sell my wonderful medium format camera. I put a lot into it, but just don't have the time anymore. It's a frikkin sweet camera, just needs a little work and some time.

It's the same camera model that my favorite photographer William Eggleston used, hence part of the reason I bought it. I have two backs with it, as well as the ground glass back and a non-functioning lens. The 6x9 back was always broken even when I purchased the camera. The lense worked for a while, but now the shutter is jammed. It probably just needs some love, but I have to wait until the future to own my own medium format. I at least have one to borrow one right now.

I just need cash to save up for starting the business. Take a look at the pics, and the auction! Spread the word, these things are extremely hard to find these days.

Auction!

Self portraits: Green Bay Photographer

I got in the lighting studio and took some photos this morning. I was mostly trying to learn and see if I could crank out a cool new pic for my profiles. I don't know if I'll use any of these for profile pics, but I really like how they turned out.

The last one is a continuation of my self portrait project I am working on.

With my cheesy little air soft pistol.

Untitled Self-portrait #15. ©Adam Koenig 2009.

Green Bay art, wedding, event, band, concert, poo, tree, nature, landscape photographer

it's day..., i don't even know anymore. What day is it? is it day 70? Or is it wednesday.

or is it the day i give in to all my self-hatred and doubt?

I don't want it to be that day, but it feels like that day.
have i taken photos this week? I don't even remember, so jaded. I wanted to stop taking pictures forever yesterday. I never wanted to see another camera for all my life. Seriously, you may not believe that if you know me but it was true for approximately 20 hours.

we're back on a plane of existence again. I mean we're not really talking, but I can at least look at all the cameras I own now, I guess that's something.

so enough blathering. I know blogs aren't supposed to blather. But I have 10 followers now, I can do what I want?

hmm, I just read an interesting quote...
"The reason they want you to fit in is so that once you do they can ignore you"
~Seth Godin

so true.
And it segues into how I am feeling.
I have found myself in an interesting position the last couple months.
I decided not to go to grad school, that I wanted to shoot weddings, and do art on the side, and than I poured myself into learning everything I can about starting a business.
Than I wanted to throw up.
I than realized I hated taking pictures.
Shortly after I realized that wasn't true, I was just sick of everything and desperately need a vacation. A "sabbath" if you will, before I just start vomiting my organs all over the place.

I have quite succesfully forgotten myself. I forgot why I even started taking pictures in the first place, and also why I even liked taking pictures. Do I really want to shoot weddings?

I originally picked up a camera because I thought "ooh pretty beauty in ordinary things, I wanna capture it". Haven't ever heard that one before have you?

I originally picked up a DSLR for one reason. To shoot bands. I love music and wanted to continue that love in somehting other than playing it, cuz that prooved... let's just say it wasn't for me.

And now for the end of my rambling salad... I give you, Adam Koenig Photography.

My reasons for taking pictures.

1. Take bad-ass awesome images. Yes I swore.
2. Take bad-ass awesome images. Yup, swore again.
3. Can you guess? Take BADASS AWESOME IMAGES!
4. Earn a living doing what I love.
5. So I can show the world the insanity in my head. And make them like it.

I will no longer post any images on this blog unless they further the vision of what I want to end up shooting. Thus comes an early end to the Project 365. I made it 69 days. It will happen again, but not now.

P.S. I will have a new blog sometime soon, Eric Lightbody is working on it, and it's going to lend itself to my identity wonderfully.