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2009-06-02T12:44:00.000-07:00

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Content to come!

Thanks for watching.

daniel.

Road Trips, Friends, Birds, Texas, and Stuff

2009-01-23T12:50:00.001-08:00

It has been way too long:

Thank you all for checking back from time to time. I know it has been way way too long since I have done this. Anyways without further adieu.

pictures.

from the road:

for some reason extreme caution is needed for this stretch of road

Lonely Windmill

The THING!

this is what the continental divide looks like

this is a bridge

her tarp matches her truck

cows

birds

dollar bills acting as wall paper in a Mexican restaurant

flag

the french quarter

this cow saw straight into my soul

texas

texas...

a horse in texas

a yard sale in texas

a bird in texas

a satellite dish in a pasture in texas

more texas

cotton

sunset plus industrialization

sunset

windmills scare me after nine hours of driving... something about them doesn't sit right with me.

navigation by a pretty hand

Home, testing out a new homemade soft box:

the destroyer of worlds and PB & J's

with his mom

thanks for looking

daniel.

San Francisco

2008-11-17T17:37:00.000-08:00

Crosswalk:
While my wife was shopping I perched up and people watched.
This is what I got.

Thanks for looking.

daniel.

A New Lens

2008-10-27T09:17:00.001-07:00

50mm 1.4:
After a solid year of dedicated service my 50mm 1.8 finally gave out on me. I was a little too rough on the thing and it just got tired. So I went out and bought me the 1.4. I have wanted this lens for a while since all I ever shoot with is a 50mm. Not because I am trying to make a statement or be pretentious. I am just too poor to buy any other lens. Anyways here are the first pictures I made with my new lens in the parking lot of the camera store.

Thanks for Looking

daniel.

Colour Revolt

2008-10-02T08:14:00.000-07:00

Another Live Show

I just finished this last night. These are getting closer to what I want them to be.
They put on a great show, so enjoy.

Colour Revolt: Naked and Red from daniel sprague on Vimeo.

thanks for watching,

daniel.

Wedded Bliss

2008-09-21T22:16:00.000-07:00

I now Present Mr. and Mrs. Collin Cooper:

I had the chance to take some pictures from the sidelines at my sister in laws wedding.
It was a good time.

Thanks for looking,
daniel.

Some video stuff.

2008-08-30T11:13:00.000-07:00

A Quick Short
This is for a campaign that Trojan is doing to try and raise sexual health in America.
The music is by Paper Rival. Editing and shooting was done by me.

Daniel on live music- #2 Anathallo from daniel sprague on Vimeo.

A Teaser
I have been working on these kind of things for a bit and they are not where I want them to be but this one is pretty close. Pratice makes perfect.

Thanks for watching.

Kate and Flash

2008-07-17T16:35:00.000-07:00

Practice makes Perfect:

I got out the flash and the home-made softbox today and took some practice shots of kate and her pretty hair.

daniel.

Dreams of Epicity

2008-07-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

WARNING: what is written below is a dream and has not been proof read for accuracy.

Matt (my cousin) got invited to a boat party where Eminem was inviting people to showcase their talent. Matt brought me with him. He had been invited to this once before and that time also ended in disaster with the two of us narrowly escaping.

While we are all on the boat and matt is rapping, he is clearly the most favored of everyone there, the waves start to pick up. Then they start to get HUGE. People are being swept from the boat left and right, mostly the bad rappers and annoying people. That is when Em grabs me and matt and the few people that are left on the boat to try and escape. We have to convince one very drunk person not to jump into the water and commit suicide, he decides we are right and comes with us.

In this next section I took a break from that dream and was driving around with my dad and a neighbor of mine in a car which I got into an accident in. So then we get into my neighbors 18 wheeler and start driving. The roads are slippery and since I havn't ever driven an 18 wheeler I go off the road. I have my dad take over and he is no better and ends up sliding the trailer off a bridge. While the trailer is hanging off the bridge me, my dad, and my neighbor narrowly escape the cab before the whole truck falls into the ocean.... I feel really bad for losing my neighbors 18 wheeler because I never knew what was inside of it and guessed it was probably important to her.

all that to get back to the other dream.

The next part is quite blurry but as the tsunami sized waves peek over the horizon we are getting off the boat and make it into a helicopter... which my dad is flying... damn.

By this point the tsunami waves are crashing into the city that we had been at before going out onto the boat. Flooding the huge city and all of its streets, thousands and thousands of people dying as the waves keep pounding. So my dad has the brilliant idea to fly us out over the waves in order to escape them, but since he is so fascinated with their power he keeps flying very low and we have to yell at him to go up right before a wave takes us out. As we get out into the ocean we start to see houses... almost a town of houses... more like shacks... Mississippi delta shacks on stilts on the top of a barrier reef of some sort. The water has become much more calm out here and the waves are breaking a couple miles off from the reef now. My dad some how manages to crash the helicopter without hurting any of the passengers. At this point the passengers of the helicopter are all changing faces all of the time, the only constant person in the group was me.

So we are stuck on this island like reef and now all of the sudden we have a dead body with us as well that we are trying to hide from the locals. I think we had to kill the person because they were going crazy and that is another one of the reasons we flew out over the ocean, so we could dump the body. While we stand around on some rocks, surrounded by some curious reef island people, I stuff the body between some cracks in the rocks and that is where we leave it.

After a few minutes I start to notice that the waves are getting closer to the shallow reef. The locals tell me not to worry because waves never get up to where their houses are and as he is telling me this a wave comes in and comes much much closer to where we are. I turn to him and tell him that "those days are over". For some reason the island people decide to help us get to saftey and give us a hybrid... land/water car. This car was meant to fit 4 people but we manage to fit all 7 of us in there. At this point kate (my wife) is in our group now and she is sitting with me in the car. After a 50 mile treacherous drive back to the shore and something to do with a draw bridge and 4th of july fireworks and an old man decoy, we finally make it back to safety.

The New York sized city has been destroyed but at least we have made it out with our lives. There was also a part before we got in the car where we had to battle a girl that was in our group that was going crazy and wanted to steal the car. Anyways, then I woke up from my dream.

stoked on epic dreams,
daniel.

Check out SwitchBurn!

2008-07-11T20:47:00.000-07:00

I have nothing to do with this video but people should go check out this website because they have a pretty rad setup... not to mention Colour Revolt Rocks!

Gracie

2008-06-14T12:24:00.000-07:00

Birthday Girl:
I went to a birthday party recently and remembered I had my camera so I took some pictures. Hope you enjoy.
Thanks for looking.
Gracie is the one with the long brown hair and the tiara.

Memory Stream

2008-06-03T23:05:00.000-07:00

I did a concept shoot for a friend.

Thanks kate for being so patient with me!

enjoy.

daniel.

Working Man

2008-05-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

I drive past them every day:

Almost every day these men are working and almost everyday I drive past them on the freeway. The other day I decided to go take pictures of them and talk with them. For the most part they could not speak english but they were friendly to me and seemed happy that I had stopped. Then we went on our own way.

thanks for looking.

daniel.

A Crowd Study

2008-05-28T10:45:00.000-07:00

2000 fans:

daniel.

Lets Get Some Color In Here

2008-05-23T09:48:00.001-07:00

When Pooh has Your Back:
Not sure what to say about this but... yeah these guys are great.

daniel.

Bands of the Hour

2008-04-19T22:20:00.000-07:00

weatherbox; Manchester Orchestral; Say Anything

I recently shot a couple shows with these guys, here are some selects from the shows.

thanks for looking.

daniel.

Project Eyes 2.0

2008-04-16T17:47:00.000-07:00

Windows to the Soul

This set is a few of some great guys that I had the pleasure
of hanging out with for the past couple of days.

Good times had by all.

Daniel.

I was a Deer, Delorean was a Dealer

2008-04-16T14:38:00.001-07:00

I was a lover, Now I am a Deer

Little bit of fun with Chris Bykowski at my side.

Check them out here

Daniel.

Bands of the Hour #3

2008-03-28T17:20:00.000-07:00

Good Tunes, Good Times:

I went to a concert recently to see weatherbox, Biffy Clyro, Manchester Orchestra, and Say anything. It was a great show, here are some of the shots I got.

Daniel.

weatherbox

Biffy Clyro

Manchester Orchestra

Say Anything

thanks.

Karate Kid and Two Trees

2008-03-28T14:18:00.000-07:00

Two Tree Hill:
Me and some friends that were visiting from back home climbed two tree hill to do a flash at sunset portrait assignment, I didn't like too many of the flash exposures but I did like the trees and the silhouettes. Enjoy.

Daniel.

Old/New Ongoing Thought

2008-03-11T20:38:00.000-07:00

Windows to the Soul
part 1

It is new because I can now have the knowledge to capture the images that have been in my mind for a very long time. I have always been fascinated with eyes, I hope to do a gallery show someday with this as a theme. This is just a quick rough cut, the final product I hope to look much different and more profound but this is the first step. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for the cooperation to all of those who helped!

daniel.

Thanks.

Prep Week Goings On

2008-03-08T19:12:00.000-08:00

"Speedbump WEEE"

So this week or so I have been messing around with my flash some more... its fun . This is just a few of the things i have got so far. I was also messing around with some portrait stuff today heh and since I had no one else around in the house I just used myself. One of the portrait things I messed around with was the idea of a softbox. I have always wanted one so today I made one out of some ducktape a sixpack box and some paper towels... anways the first of the horizontal portraits is with my makshift softbox and the second is just strait flash. Not to bad for a free softbox made in about 45 seconds. Enjoy.

daniel.

Session 03 stuff portfolio thingy

2008-02-25T19:37:00.000-08:00

To my family and friends, here is some stuff i did this session. These are just a few of my favorites. Just wanted to say that i miss you all and love you all. I am really enjoying the Cali weather ;-) it is probably 60 degrees right now at 9pm :) And here is what I have been up to over the last few months.

Band stuff- I was a lover, Delorean was a Dealer

Surf stuff- Feb 24th, crazy huge waves!!!!

Home Town Stuff- These two photos were taken on the street that i live on! Not quite home but its nice!

Environmental Portraits Stuff- This guy lives in my apartment complex, he is really nice and plays the bagpipes too!!!

Skateboarding Stuff- This is a local skate park that i like to frequent and shoot the locals.

Well I hope you all enjoyed! Miss you guys, hope you like my stuff, and e-mail me if you guys have any questions or just want to say hi!

Daniel.

Moonrats

2008-01-13T17:21:00.000-08:00

Band of the Hour (Beta)#2:

Moonrats

The Moonrats, who are Nathan Thelen, Aska Matsumiya, Jason Echeverria and the newest memeber Peter Lyman, grow more and more popular each day with locals of LA. Nathan left a band called Pretty Girls Make Graves to start the Moonrats in Seattle, before moving to Los Angeles, their current place of residence.

All of the members have a drive and passion in them that is easily seen in the way they play their live shows.

From their singsongesque guitar in Blue White and Red to the Almost Rock not quite Pop sound of EncasodeemergenciaDmechop, the Moonrats have a quaint uniqueness that is sure to please and enrich the soul.

Be sure to watch for the Moonrats to be showing up at a local venue near you. They are putting the finishing touches on a new full length release and a 7". The Moonrats are currently browsing around for a label to call home.

You can get up to date info while listening to their stuff all at the same time at at their myspace.
Enjoy!

Daniel.

Colour Revolt

2008-01-10T11:54:00.002-08:00

Band of the Hour (Beta) #1:
Colour Revolt

A small known band hailing from the little known "college/retirement" town of Oxford, Mississippi, Colour Revolt have a modern Rock sound mixed with what can be described as Southern Comfort.

Their first CD, self-titled, features thoughtful lyrics put to a raw high energy sound, with some harmonica on the side.

Colour Revolt concerts can only be described as intense. The intensity is contagious making for a great show. Their fan base has been growing more and more since they began touring, including a small group of people in the LA area of California (as seen above and below, at the 6th Street Warehouse in Downtown LA).

Colour Revolt is releasing there second album, a full length sometime late March early April this year. For the summer they have a tour in planning, of which they hope to cover much ground. Keep your eyes on these guys, they are going places.

You can listen to them and watch for thier new Release and Tour Schedule at their myspace

http://www.myspace.com/colourrevolt

Daniel.