St. Augustine Florida, January 2011.

Inside my friends apartment, I stayed for vacation. I slept, ate, drank, and bathed there, I would wait for my friends to walk through the door, home from work. We would then go out and enjoy ourselves, spend our hard earned money.

Waiting for their arrival one night, I wanted to make art.

A trip to NYC, December 30th, 2010.

FinalProject.

I just finished shooting for my personal project today and still have one more print to make. I am happy with my ideas for this work, but might be a little worried about how they work as a group. I would like to continue shooting this work for years and years as a personal body of work. There will always be another mask, with another body behind it.

Faculty Art Show

I finally got to go over to the Faculty Art Show and I had only like five minutes to view everything because the women had to lock up, but I took the time to walk through. I started with Rob Goldman's work and ended at Allen Keener's. I liked the small polaroid shots of Rob's work, but I didn't really read anything from the work in particular. I loved the linoleum etches done, I forget who did them but they were very unique. Other than that my eye really didn't catch anything until I got to Allen Keener's work. I loved the presentation of his images, with the text and placement of the images on the big paper size. His pictures had a very personal feel, and the text really touched me. Especially the last print.

Owen

Our visitor Owen was nice, but kind of discouraging. While Janelle was talking about raising her prices the week before, Owen was talking about lowering his. He did more of a mainstream basic wedding photography work, while Janelle was more into the creative side and pushing things to the limit, which I feel works great for her. I hope to someday be successful in a photography field that I love doing, and not that I have to settle for.

new work

This is a new piece of work. I'm not done with the editing process yet, but this is what I am leaning toward. I wanted to capture religious views and how some people see things different. I started to shoot his head to stomach but then thought I wanted this to be less personal, but more in a way, by cropping out the face. Does anyone have a strong pull to this?

Janelle Brooke

I thought Janelle's visit was very worthwhile and informative. Being one of her students, I already knew what she was about and have seen some of her work before, but I had never seen the work she had showed us. It was pretty interesting to see how creative she makes wedding photography, almost made me want to do something similar. I think photographers look at wedding photography as a mundane field, when really, it is what you make it. I love Janelle's energy and vibrance, and you can see it come through in her work.