update!

So it has been a very long while since i have last posted on this and not many of my posts have been too meaningful....but i don't know that anyone even reads my post so the meaningfulness and how often i post isn't really a big deal....

I haven't been doing much...I went to KS to visit friends and family for Christmas break....I came back to San Francisco thinking classes would start very soon....but realized i still had a month to go til classes actually started. oh well.....I have a lot of homework i should actually be doing...one of which is getting photographs that i have recently taken online so one of my instructors can view them. I was going to shoot some over the break...but i wasn't allowed to check out a camera or a flash during christmas break, and when i got back to my studio i found out they took my only power pack for the lights i have because chris threw a fit and said i took a bunch of stuff that belonged in his studio....which i didn't think was true....but later found out the power pack i took did infact belong to him....He returned my for me earlier in the semester because we had 4 and only needed 2 one for me and one for him.....well now he has 2 and i have none....and he only uses 1 so it kinda makes me angry.....i feel i am just ranting and getting angry at chris...so i will drop this.

I am hoping classes are going to be good this semester...I am taking a group directed study, business practices, and a website design class.....we will see how this all turns out. I am also hopefully graduating this semester!!! Kind of excited and nervous about that....I have to finish my Thesis project which isn't near done!! But i hope i can do it! If i can't i think i can still walk in May and then finish up in the summer...taking 1 more class and presenting my Final Thesis! But i am going to shoot for being completely done in May!

Which then my only problem will be finding a job....I need to start being on the hunt for a job near the bay area....I really want to stay in or around San Francisco...I really like it here....and i don't really want to move back to Kansas....especially not Fort Scott....there just aren't enough opportunities in that area. I do love being home though! I wouldn't mind living somewhere like Florida, or Colorado either....i liked living in both of those places...colorado more so though. I think i might like NY too!! I don't really know...we will see where i end up.

Well I am going to post some images on here soon....so look forward to that. And i will try to keep my blog up to date as time progresses this semester....hopefully i can do that!

Summer stuff!

so, as promised here are some shots of images from this summer.....the first set is a set of photos that i shot for leonard's class and the second set is of the photos i made for the summer intensive show at 688 Sutter street gallery....it also has images of other peoples photos.

Summer Stuff

Gallery

BEEN A WHILE

WOW....i am verry terrible at keeping a blog.....i haven't written anything in this all summer....i am hoping that i can keep a better record of what i am doing here at the Academy....So...this summer i have been taking a class with Leonard DeLuna and a Photo Intensive with Connie Begg....it has been kind of a stressful summer.....but i have finished...well...almost....I have printed everything....but i think i may reprint a mural print. So for both classes i shot at the Marin Headlands, but i shot two completely different projects. For Leonard's class i shot more of a technical assignment dealing with textures, walls, and landscape that i enjoyed at the Headlands and then printed them in the darkroom on 16x20 paper, I then spot bleached and selenium toned the images to make them even more beautiful! For my Intensive class i shot macro images of textures and recreated them to be landscapes. I printed them in the darkroom as well, but i printed them as mural prints (3.3 ft. x 4.5 ft.) I then spot bleached them to bring out a bit more contrast....i chose not to selenium tone them because that would add a bit too much contrast to it, because it is a mural print it shouldn't be as contrasty. right now i am in the process of finishing the frames for the mural prints....i have stained them and tomorrow i am going to go to studio and finish bleaching them (1 more left), and then i am going to put the frame together and get the images ready to hang in the gallery.....we are having a show in the 688 sutter street gallery. I have printed 5 images for the show, but i know they won't all fit...i think i may be able to get 3 of the images to fit on the wall that has been designated to me.....I keep forgetting to go measure the wall and see what i can get to fit....so i guess i will just play it by ear on Tuesday (when we hang). I will soon have images of all of the prints i have done this summer....i still have to take photos of them....i think they are much too big to be able to scan.

Tin Types

here are the tintypes that i did for my historic process class.....I couldn't get the colors to match what they really were.....this is as close as i could get it....the scanner wasn't doing so well...and every time i photographed it you could see my reflection....so this is the best i could do with what i had!

Tintypes

coming soon.....

I will be updating soon....I just have to get some good photos taken of my tintypes...and i need to set my runners up to be on a blog! I am no good at keeping a blog...I already knew that....I have tried before now....I completely forgot i even have this thing until i was told i needed to update it....haha....yeah....so i will though!

Really curious and looking into this.  DIY E6