Really curious and looking into this.  DIY E6

I am starting to get very frutrated with the gum printing process!!!  It just isn't doing what i want and even though i preshrink my paper it is still shrinking after my first exposure and my neg won't register exactly right....some images this adds a nice effect...others it looks horrible!  I want to be able to control it!!!

I am super excited to get to run in the Bay 2 Breakers 12K this year!! Some friends and i are considering dressing up in costumes for the run!! I thought the history of Bay 2 Breakers was kind of interesting. There are even people who run the race backwards...like Salmon!

Here is a photo my friend Francesca took of me.

Oh and for anyone who reads this....which i think at this point is no one but Chesca...haha Jeff's Polaroid show is tonight at 8pm.

So I was checking out my friend Jeff's friend Alison's Blog....wow...that was difficult to say.....and i saw an image of her receiving a box in the mail....when she opened it the box had a balloon in it....and then she popped it.....I was confused......and then there was a link that lead to beingeverywhere. A project that is being done by artist Stefan Riebel. I think it is very interesting and worth looking at....and even participating in....i think i am going to....Just a thought!

I went on a little photo excursion with Mindo yesterday and had a lot of fun! We shot up some pinhole 4x5, polaroid's with the hasselblad, and some slide film....even stayed late at the Sutro and shot some long exposure night shots....I am hoping to get some of that up once i get it developed/scaned!

Some portraits from class

Here are a few photos that i have taken during my portraiture class at the Academy of Art University. I am really enjoying learning the lighting but i am definitely out of my comfort zone by photographing people. But, i am learning a great deal.

Portraits

Disregarded Landscapes

Here are some of the images that i presented for my Thesis Project Proposal. My Project is titled Disregarded Landscapes. Here is the abstract that i presented with the project to give an idea of what the project is about.

A lot of my life I was unable to see textures clearly and I have become fascinated with textures and small-scale things since getting glasses. Also, I have very much come to miss landscapes and the outdoors since being in San Francisco. I feel that the city abstracts the idea of wilderness and tries to recreate it with parks. Although to me this seems unnatural, and something I don’t enjoy as much as the real wooded areas. When I am walking through the city I look for the landscape, within the city, that I have come to miss. Both of these are reasons behind my images. I have combined the two and now search for microscopic landscapes within the city. I find areas that are pleasing to me, and usually have a lot of decay and texture and I am photographing them with the intentions of creating a landscape. I am photographing the project with a Canon EOS 1 and slide film. I am using a 100mm macro lens with the aperture at f2.8. The images will be very ambiguous and open for interpretation. The images are meant to become something personal to the viewer, to remind the viewer of a familiar area. The 16-20 images will be 24” x 36” flush mounted on black gator board. The images will be large and over-powering and have the dichotomy of being very small-scale objects pushed to something that is so large and overwhelming.

Disregarded Landscapes

Historic Process

I don't know if this is going to work or not...but i have made a photobucket album and i think that would be an easier way of posting images because then i can have a folder of images instead of it showing one image at a time and taking up so much space on my blog. so we will see if this works.

Historic Process