Panheads and Panoramas and the occasional Polaroid...

     In 2024, I bought two new cameras, a Malefic M612 and a Polaroid Now camera (both with red accenting) and since I have finished my last photography book, Harleys and Holgas Forever, I thought I would start another project, using my Malefic camera and PanHolga primarily and the occasional Polaroid thrown in for fun and have the work center around the Harley-Davidson Panhead engine on its motorcycles that were manufactured from 1948 to 1965. Not all of the photographs will be of Panheads, but they will all be panoramas and or Polaroids.

    So far, I have been fortunate to have met another Harley rider through the local Harley dealer, Intermountain or Salt Lake Harley, that happens to one of their mechanics and is a bit of a Panhead expert and owns a beautiful 1965 Electra Glide that I have made a few photographs of with two of my cameras, the Malefic Panorama and the Polaroid.

      

    Through my new friend, I have been afforded an opportunity to be introduced to a few other Panheads.

     The project is still in the beginning stages, but I feel that I am off to a good start.

 

So we'll see where this takes me, I have a lot photographs that are rummaging around in my head just waiting for the right moment to be made.

  

In other news, I am just about done with my autobiography, I have all of the photographs scanned, the pages laid out and all of information about each photograph written up; I also have the text written, I am just waiting to have it looked at from an Army buddy that is an excellent writer and editor. 

Let's Ride!

Brian 

 

The Life of Brian

    If you have ever Googled, "The Life of Brian" you'll find stuff largely about the hilarious  Monty Python movie and if you look at the blurb.com bookstore, you'll find more than one book of the same name that are books of some sort or another done by a fellow Brian or about a Brian. So for my next book, which I am calling a photographic autobiography, guess what I aiming to call it.  You guessed it, The Life of Brian.

    As I get older, I often think about what will happen to the 40 years and counting worth of the negatives and slides I have made from my photography, it's not like I am a well known, iconic photographer or even the Messiah, I am just some guy that thinks of himself as a photographer, so who would want to archive my photography. Maybe what I should do, is keep making photographs, and not process my film and maybe years after I am dead, in the same vain as Vivian Maier  someone would find those unprocessed rolls and the rest of my negatives and slides which could create a huge interest in my photography then. It could happen, right?!

   

    The best way I can have some sort of lasting archive of my photography is create a book, according to the Help Center on blurb.com, once a single copy of a book has been purchased the book or books will stay on their servers until the account owner deletes it. 

    So while it's still in development, I have come up with the following possible cover for the book and despite the movie and all of the other Brian's who have lives too, none of them have had the life I have had, so it's this Brian's life,and like "The Chairman of the Board" sang, I am doing it my, because it's my life and my photography. 

So just remember, "When you're chewing on life's gristle, don't grumble; give a whistle, and this'll help things turn out for the best. And... always look on the bright side of life.."