About a year ago, I was talking with
Bryan Wing, who has been wanting to learn how to do tintypes, and the conversation evolved to where we had the idea of starting a project photographing competitive facial hair contestants. Well, much planning and technical tweaking later, the project is finally under way.
I headed down to Austin this past weekend to shoot tintypes of the contestants at
Come and Shave It #8. Such great people- and some amazing faces! I was certain I'd have to talk people into giving it a shot, but many of these folks waited in line for over 90 minutes to get their tintypes done. I ended up having to turn people away at the end. Next year my bearded bretheren, I will be back!!
For my first serious location shoot- the results were well beyond all my best expectations!!!
Hopefully, we'll soon be working more with the
North Texas Beard Alliance and the
Denton Beard Club. I'll be pulling together a Kickstarter project so we can attend the
2014 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Portland, Oregon in September.
The response in Austin this past weekend was fantastic and I am feeling very positive about this project. I'm very very happy with the results, and I hope you all enjoy them too.
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| Eric Menz |
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| Daniel Lawlor |
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| Brian Damaged |
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| Damien Stein |
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| Hael Fisher |
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| Isaiah Webb |
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| Matt Van Hefter |
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| Roberto Campos |
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| Sean Leary |
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| Shelby Przybyiek |
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| Thomas Burke |
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| Tim Coyle |
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Kyle Bauer and Cassie Kinard |
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