Columbia College Urban Arts Festival or MANIFEST 2010

i really am very happy i decided to really start testing out my newish nickon 35mm slr yesterday during manifest. i really love the camera and i think i caught some pictures of some great moments in great lighting and weather yesterday. this is the end of another year at columbia i have roughly 2 more years to go and am pretty excited to see what's in store for the next half of college. even more than that i am excited to make some money this summer with photography and other forms of labor seeing as my account balance is currently -19.20 and credit debt is maxed out! i have a feeling that 2010 summer is gong to be a great one though.

plans for this summer:
make stacks of money
go to california with shev
dunes trip
get back into shape
and photograph photograph photograph

schedule for next semester
photojournalism - white
view camera - vallera
web publishing1 - whitmore
biology - no idea
darkroom III- glacer

going to be a busy fall

image 4 if your memory was a photographer.

This is the fourth image of my project if your memory was a photographer where i explore my memories of the encounters i have had with various people and how my memory photographs the situations. I was normal going to keep with a white out feel but working on this image i learned that my memories always seem to feel like the extreme of whatever light situation i am in. Thinking about this encounter i knew it was at night so instantly everything felt a little darker to me. in exploring this memory i am very happy to say that my project has expanded in technique. This image is going on my own personal record of 6hours total put into it,phew! hopefully i dont have to make anew record anytime soon

Environmental Tree Portraiture

The Drug User

The Family Man

The Mourner

The Preacher

these are some images from my final project thats im working on for my advanced color class. there are many different projects that i see come through my photography classes so many are the same projects over and over again like, graffiti photography, tattoo photography, self portrait photography and environmental portrait photography. I enjoy seeing these types of photography being taken the way that they are taken, but for the most part they are all different but very similar shades of the same thing and often times i unfortunately become bored with those projects so i decided to add a little humor to this project and poke fun at the typical environmental portraiture project by shooting portraits of trees in their environment and giving them human characteristics which are described in the titles of the individual portraits. I gave them their individual titles based on clues from their surroundings as well as relationship to their environment.

basically what i hope to achieve with this assignment is a little laughter

portrait of a 21 year old

just turned 21 the other day and i was thinking about it a little, not sad not happy, just appreciating the amount of time i have been alive, i feel a little old but it doesnt bother me. so i just took this image just so i could remember the day my first quarter of life had passed. its kinda funny to me i dont really know why, jus tis