Nate “Igor” Smith 🎩

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Shipping these out today. Only a few left if you want one.

When I was in high school in the late 90s I had an idea for a project so I bought a disposable camera and took it to a playground and gave it to the kids and let them shoot the roll. You could obviously never do something like this now but it was really cool to see what the kids came up with.

Wild life photos, not wildlife photos.

More wildlife photos from my yard. Now that I have a long lens I just walk around my place with a camera looking outside. How did I become this person?

Ran into a neighbor walking his dog and he told me that our pond gets wood ducks sometimes and I don't know if you have ever seen a wood duck but those things are insane looking. He told me to get some cracked corn and throw it around the pond to attract them. No wood ducks so far, but these guys showed up.

Always classy

Not sure how much I have talked about these, but during Christmas 2019 my mom handed me 44 rolls of film that she shot between 1975 and 1984 and never developed. Before I was born in 1980 she was working as a professional photographer, mostly shooting family portraits. They bought a house right around that time and she had a basement closet that was going to become a darkroom but she never got around to setting it up. She had me and the a few years later my brother and she just went full time mom and by the time we moved out of that house in the early 90s my dad was the only person who ever took photos in our family. I have no idea why she quit and I've tried to get her back into it because she was a really great photographer. The weird thing is, I had no idea she was a great photographer until she handed me these rolls. To this day I have never seen any of the photos she took before she had me. I had been trying to get her old negatives so that I could scan them for her, but she can't find them. I don't know why she's never shared that part of her life with me, especially given that she's the reason I picked up a camera in the first place. I kinda feel like she doesn't think she was good or maybe she's mad at herself for giving up, but I really hope we can find these negatives because seeing these photos 40 years after she shot them was an incredible experience for me.

Portraits my mom took in the 70's.

I took a photo of Miley Cyrus. So it's sometime in the early 2010s and I am shooting a lot of "cool" parties with guest lists that had actual celebrities but also these fake celebrities that I was expected to photograph and so often it was like a DJ who is only known because they dated a celebrity. "Oh you gotta go photograph that guy because he used to date Taylor Momsen." It started kinda becoming a meme to me and I started joking about how I needed to date a celebrity for a while just so people would know me as "the guy who used to date ______". I decided the blank for me was going to be Kesha. She was famous, but like not that famous so maybe I had a chance and she seemed like a good punchline to the bit. One day I was hanging out with my friend Lola and I suddenly remembered that she grew up with Kesha and so I explained this dumb idea I had and asked her if she could hook me up with her. She told me that she kinda hated Kesha and that they all called her Ketchup growing up which honestly, rude, but she had another idea. "You should date my friend Miley Cyrus. She just broke up with her boyfriend and I think she would like you." "The child from Hannah Montana? I think I'm good." A few months later Cannonball came out and she was the biggest artist in the world and I realized I had really blown my opportunity to make out with a celebrity. Although in retrospect she was like 20 at the time and I was in my early 30s so my instincts were probably correct. But yo, shout out Lola. She was such a rad person even though she was super religious and didn't believe in evolution or dinosaurs.

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Camouflage

My view vs my bird feeder camera's view.

Pennsylvania

The finest luxury furnishings in my hotel.

I took a photo of Shepard Fairey and Beeple last night at their event at Beeple Studios.

Can we talk about how I missed the 25th anniversary of my website? It was March 1st and I completely forgot. And also it got hacked and I don’t really know what to do about that.

Heading to Charleston this weekend because I have a photo in the Shepard Fairey show tonight at Beeple Studios. Anyone going?

Finally got a long lens to photograph my backyard. I need to get way better at bird photography, but it's pretty crazy that I shot all of these in like 10 min this morning.

With all the talk of Afroman winning his historic free speech lawsuit over a corrupt sheriffs department, I remembered that I photographed him at the Gathering of the Juggalos back in 2010.