Micah Walter

I’m just posting this because it is too awesome not to, enjoy.

I was recently searchign through flickr for Holga images (my new “toy”) and came across this shot of a Borofsky sculpture. Very cool!

Link: flickr.com

I just wanted to throw this one up here as one of the coolest sites I have seen in a while. I love the layout of the video and photo, not to mention some really amazing photography.

Check it out for yourself here.

Kendra has posted some pics of our new apartment now that it is all set up and we are all moved in. There is still the issue of a coffee table that is currently buried beneath my parents house. But for the most part, we are moved in and loving it!

Kendra is becoming quite the photog in her own right! Click the pic to see the rest.

I think it’s about time for some new branding for the Micah Walter website and my freelance business. Currently, everything says “Micah Walter - Photojournalist.” This can be seen on my logo at the top of my website, as well as all of my invoices, business cards and other such marketing materials. The thing is I do all sorts of other things. Lately I have been doing far more software development than photojournalism, and probably even more writing than photojournalism. It’s just the nature of things these days. I switch back and forth, I merge and meld together.

So, I usually tell people who ask me what I do that I am a photographer and digital workflow consultant. The latter is sort of a blanket description that covers my writing as well as my software development. I suppose it could also cover something like custom workflow consulting for a studio or photographer, but I haven’t really done much of that (for money anyway…).

So what should my brand be? Maybe just “Micah Walter.” I kinda like that. It covers ANYTHING! Including dog walker….

Yes, it’s true, I have an iPhone. “GET YOUR iPHONES!!!!!” Well, my favorite feature of the phone has to be the halfway decent built in camera. I have it with me all the time, so I have naturally been having lots of fun taking happy-snaps with it. Here is one I took while hanging out in Mt. Vernon Square with Kendra and Laura. Laura has an iPhone as well. Go figure.

I have also created a flickr set called iPhone Baltimore. Enjoy.

From my last post you will know that I have been pretty busy traveling and moving from Dominica back to the States. Well, after a couple grueling weeks of flying, driving, waiting, spending, and all sorts of other relocation related experiences, I am happy to say that I am now sitting comfortably in my new apartment in Baltimore Maryland.

The apartment which I decided to grab sight unseen has so far worked out great. It is in many ways my dream apartment–a giant warehouse space overlooking downtown Baltimore.

Well the dogs made it here un-scathed, as did most of our belongings and ourselves. We have nearly set up the apartment, and have un-boxed most of our clothes and belongings. It is pretty funny how the order of priority seems to now be “electricity” followed by “internet.” But, we now have both up and running and the stereo is cranking out the iPod tunes one after another.

Randomly, I got a quick assignment for the Houston Chronicle, which I shot yesterday. It took much longer to pull of than I had anticipated, but the results were pretty satisfactory, considering I haven’t really shot a news assignment in about two years!

I have also been having a ball playing with the camera on my new iPhone, which is responsible for the above photo.

Anyway, I am now officially SWAMPED with work, so I better get to it. I will be of course posting more and more each day as things settle down, so stay tuned…

-m

Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we travel to the airport in Dominica to ship out our two dogs, a friends Huskie (seen in the pic above), a barrel of stuff, and a few boxes. The dogs get a direct flight to Miami via Amerijet, and then we will follow them on Wednesday afternoon. It is sure to be a crazy journey in our “Standard Sized SUV” from Alamo, all the way up I-95. I can’t believe we are finally moving back to the states!

Anyway, I just wanted to post the above pic of Sterling, our resident wolf in sheep’s clothing. His owner will be receiving him and our dogs tomorrow evening. We are all hoping and praying everything goes according to plan!

-m

Thank you Kendra, I love it!!!!

Well, it’s official, I am moving into an apartment in the CopyCat building in a couple of weeks. The CopyCat building is actually a big warehouse that was converted into apartments for artists. The apartments range from shared living spaces to private apartments. The building is pretty rough and the apartment I am taking will need some initial work when we first move in, but I decided that it would be the perfect base of operations for the next two years.

I really wanted to live in a place that was inspiring to me, and in a space where I would have room to think and room to do my work. The apartment is about 1100 sq. ft. of open floor space. It actually has a small bedroom and bathroom built in the back, but the rest is all open. In the photo above (which I screen-shotted from an article published in The Urbanite Magazine) you can see the exact same apartment unit I will be moving into.

I really like how the previous tenant had decorated and arranged the place and I hope to do something similar but in my own way.

I have heard all sorts of bad things about living in this building, and I have come up with all sorts of reasons to not live there, but in the end I decided to go for it. My father went up to check it out for me, and we have discussed the possibilities at length. It’s sort of hard to say where the final decision came from. I initially envision living in a small row house in Canton near the harbor, but right now I am really feeling the warehouse life.

Regardless, I am really excited. I have already been sketching out floor plans and shopping for Pianos on Craigslist.

Next week we fly out of here. Just about everything is in order and I almost can’t believe we are going to pull this off. A friend of ours who is also moving a dog back to the states has conspired with us to save a whole bunch of costs by flying ahead to receive all three of our dogs at customs. This will negate the need for a pet daycare person to come pick them up and take care of them as well as the need for a customs broker to deal with them at the airport.

The dogs fly the 15th direct to Miami on Amerijet, and we follow behind them on the 16th on American, via San Juan. One night in Miami at a hotel and then a long drive in a rental car full of luggage, and dogs up to Luray where Kendra’s parents live. It is sure to be quite the journey! Of course I will be sure to blog from the road…