New Web Site & New Blog - Goodbye Blogspot!

Hello everyone! I'm excited to inform you that joshrubino.com has an entirely new look and also that the blog has been moved over as well. The old posts will remain here, but everything new will be located at joshrubino.com/blog/. Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to view my work on the new site in the future. Enjoy!

Song of the day: "We Live Again" by Beck

Weddings - 2011 style

Hello again! Here are just some quick examples of some wedding photos taken during the 2011 season. Enjoy! Click to enlarge.














Song of the day: "Hints" by José González

REEBOK

Hello everybody. I recently did some work with Reebok photographing some limited edition sneakers from NBA player, John Wall. There are a good amount of photos from the shoot, but here's just one quick example of a shoe showcasing his high school basketball team colors. Enjoy! Click to enlarge.

Song of the day: "U.R.A. Fever" by The Kills

It is happening

Hello! So I'm three weeks in with my project to shoot objects in my home (or wherever I may be staying) for the next 365 days, strangely enough entitled "Home 365." If you'd like to follow the progress, please feel free to click this link. Thanks. Enjoy the day! And, as always, click to englarge.

Song of the day: "Munich" by Editors

Inanimate

I'm very much considering a one-a-day project just in the home, trying to create something out of nothing for a year or so. Here's an example of something that might appear. Enjoy! Click to enlarge.


Song of the day: "This Day" by The Sleepy Jackson

Friendly Beards

I don't post all the photos I create on this blog, but I do try to put some of the more enjoyable ones up. About a week ago I went to the "Get Your Beard On" All American Beard and Mustache Contest in Somerville, MA for the second year in a row. Its a really fun event and they used a couple of my photos in a local paper and on a couple websites to promote this year's event, so there was even more incentive (as if I needed more incentive ... beards!) to return. Other than hilarious beards and mustaches, my favorite part of this event is how friendly everyone is. I love Boston, but sometimes everybody's inexplicable aggression can be a little too much and you just want to be in a friendlier world. That friendlier world apparently has a lot of people with amazing beards and mustaches, as well as people who just enjoy amazing beards and mustaches. It is impossible to leave an event with people like this and not feel better about the world. I've included a few samples below. Some contestants from last year returned, and blew my mind all over again with their hairy face art. So, overall, a great day. Any day laughing a lot and making fun photographs is going to be a great day.

ENJOY ALL O' THIS. Click to enlarge




Song of the day: "Bob Dylan's 49th Beard" by Wilco

Lucy & Ellen

Last month I had the pleasure of photographing Lucy The Dog and Ellen The Human as a surprise for Ellen's boyfriend, Nick, for Valentine's Day. Ellen stole Lucy for the morning so we could get the shots done and told Nick that she and Lucy were auditioning for a TV show. I don't know how much Nick was fooled by this, but in the end they really enjoyed the prints. We shot by the water with the Boston skyline as a backdrop for some of the images and really lucked out with beautiful weather (even with the wind and low temperatures). Here are a few of Ellen's favorites. Click to enlarge and Enjoy!





Song of the day: "Sure Shot" by Beastie Boys

Docks

All I knew last night when I went to sleep was that I was waking up extra early to go shoot somewhere. Somehow I ended up at the Dry Docks area in South Boston. Here's the result ... O, and hot chocolate update, of course: Post-production consisted of a large peppermint hot chocolate. Click to enlarge and enjoy the day!



Song of the day: "Sixteen Military Wives (aka 16x32)" by The Decemberists

Snow Chocolate

We were hit with a huge snowstorm in Boston the other day, which kind of shut things down for everyone for a little bit. I went out for a walk that night with my camera after things had calmed down a little bit. I really like trying to walk around the city in these situations when everything is a mess, whether or not I have my camera with me. It was pretty cool as the city was pretty much a ghost town. There was an occasional car and sometimes a person walking a shivering dog that was the size of my boot, but then out of nowhere was a Cumberland Farms gas station. Everything thing was closed, but this magical place was open at 11:30 at night (a photo would be appropriate here, but that's not happening). I know, for a fact, that they sell surprisingly good peppermint hot chocolate for $1, but I had no wallet. Why would I when I was walking around in the snow? One dollar is one of my favorite prices too. I also enjoy zero dollars. You were quite a tease, gas station! I'm starting to mention hot chocolate in almost every post now. This will continue.


Enjoy the day! click images to enlarge.


Song of the day: "Go Do" - Jonsi

Merry Belated Christmas

Quick Post ... I hope everyone had a great Christmas. People in the Boston area: enjoy the storm. Please feel free to pass the time while you're home by baking me an assortment of pies.

More JR to come soon. Enjoy some snowmen in the meantime.


Song of the day: "The Weather" by Built To Spill

Royal Z

Today was a day to wake up and test my toughness against the cold. I woke up at 5:30 this morning to go and do some shooting. As soon as I got up I checked weather.com for Boston's temperature. It read 9 degrees ... feels like -2 degrees. Unfortunately this was Fahrenheit. So on went the long johns and 54 layers up top and off I went to shoot the Zakim Bridge. I really wanted to shoot from below it, which was my only option anyways because my helicopter is imaginary. Despite my fingers burning from future frostbite and my face numbing, it was cool being down there. Some of the water was frozen. And actually, driving from my place along the Charles River through Cambridge, I saw a lot more ice than I ever would've expected this early in the year. There was a thin sheet of ice over just about the whole river. After I was done shooting at Zakim, I headed over to the Naval Shipyard area in Charlestown. This was much windier and colder, so my time was going to be short. I did more walking around than anything, just observing, but managed to get a couple of shots, one of which is below. So all in all, cold morning, but, as always, worth waking up early to be outside with a camera. ... Enjoy! ....... click images to enlarge


Song of the day: "I Will Be The Sun" by Old Canes

Aquatic Battle

Today was a really great day. I decided to wake up at 5:30 this morning to drive down to Scituate, MA to do some shooting around sunrise. I thought of the Scituate lighthouse before I went to bed Saturday night and lucked out that there was going to be some pretty nice weather today to do some work. I had visions of getting a one dollar cup of hot chocolate at McDonald's for the ride, but I was racing the sun and don't ever really want to step in a McDonald's anyway, so off I went. I arrived just in time to work with some really interesting light and some amazing scattered clouds. I had a shot in mind of the curling of the coast with the lighthouse off to the side of the frame and was able to work on that shot, with what seemed to be a ticked off ocean trying to make itself known to me. The waves were strong today, almost like a winter storm, so that made everything a lot more fun as I had the tripod set up right at the edge of the water (at least at first). With every second of these long exposures my waterproof boots were becoming less waterproof and my shins a little bit shorter. I eventually looked up and saw a defunct typhoon's wave about to attack me, so I grabbed my tripod mid-shot and made a run for it. I'm sure I looked like an idiot standing in the tip of the ocean in December (in New England) with jeans soaked up to my knees and laughing completely by myself. ... But I am an idiot, I laugh a lot, and like to push the limit to create images that I enjoy, so its all good. In unrelated news, I was rewarded with delicious French Toast later in the morning to continue the great day. Happy Sunday! ... or Monday now, I guess.

Below is an outtake from today ... a little ghost-like self portrait. And, as always, please click the images to view them larger.


Song of the day: "Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons

So it begins.

Time Lapse - Boston - One Day

A new time lapse I created of Boston. 4,200+ photos in all. Enjoy! ... click HD or the link below to watch the video in HD on Vimeo's site.

Time Lapse - Boston - One Day from Josh Rubino on Vimeo.

A Boston Evening

A Boston Morning

Beartracks Lake - Colorado

A Pleasant Vacation?

Here's a dumb video I created based on a recent 3 day Colorado backpacking trip. Enjoy.

There was a slight problem with the upload from 1:14-1:21, but you get the point.


You can also view a larger version here.

Dollhouse

A couple of portraits from a charity fashion event I shot earlier in the year to benefit the Narissa Crosscup Scholarship Foundation.