Thursday, August 19, 2010
One night we stayed with a Native American family and looking around the house and grounds, it was very clear that they were fervently Christian. I was reminded of the chapter of text in The Last Days of Shishmaref about Christian missionaries and the natives of Alaska.
A couple of snaps from the Colorado River area trip in spring. Has anyone ever resisted taking photos in Monument Valley? The first photo is a corner of a little souvenir stand set up by the Native Americans. There were a lot in the area, and there were no customers at any of them. It [...]
There’s nothing like the feeling of being content with a newly processed photo. Even if you know that by next week you will probably have changed your mind.
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The Yellowstone trip was fruitful in unexpected ways. It turned out to be a very fun group of people, and much silliness occurred. Almost all of the photos I like happen to be from a little town called Buhl in Idaho, where we also found an empty stone grain silo in which we proceeded to [...]
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Get out those band photos. And the Irony. Classes are over, portfolios are turned in. A list of my own – tentative summer plans: – rock the Yellowstone hotspot – work in school photo lab – use grant to shoot – process backlog – install better website template (get Fusion! found album together too?) – [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m tired of photographer interviews. The thing I start missing when people talk about photography and especially many of the more documentary oriented projects that I’m attracted to is any discussion of their creative process in terms of affect. So I’ve been reading interviews with PJ Harvey, and [...]
A bit of gear and non-art chat today… Last quarter while I was taking the view camera class, I went shooting with a friend who shoots 8×10 and saw him using an orange (Wratten #90?) filter viewer to previsualize black and white. This week I saw one in the used division of my local camera [...]
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Laura Volkerding’s Solomon’s Temple The photos in this book are pretty low contrast, and I had to resist a natural urge to ramp it up. One of my classmates from the view camera course saw the KZSU workspaces and recommended Volkerding. Speaking of KZSU, this is the time of year when a bunch of short [...]
I’m showing 10 of my KZSU shots at An Art Affair, which runs through the end of the day Saturday. If you’re on campus, come by the White Plaza tents and check it out. All of them are 17×22″ and I’m especially proud of this one. The web doesn’t do it justice!
Last quarter we did blogs for the light class and one of the more interesting videos posted was this one, of some pretty complex stop-action art. (Thanks, Susan!) This quarter I’m taking some great classes. Alternative Processes, where we’ll be making cyanotypes, Van Dyke, palladium and gum prints, among other things. The Photo Book, which [...]
For a while, I could only describe the type of thing that I usually like to photograph as “messes.” I’ll take a photo of anything really, but the stuff that stays on my mind and in my heart is the messy stuff, like the Mission shops and the KZSU interiors. Recently, after looking at the [...]
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I was walking down 24th St. the other day and saw this on the ground. The white paint (plaster?) made the entire thing look naturally black and white. I love the tiny bits of color in the plants, and the leaves that look like they’re embedded in the sidewalk. After last week’s rains, the paint’s [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Haven’t had much time lately to get out there and shoot some MF (I think I’m missed several iterations of holiday windows). I’m really starting to miss it what with lugging the 4×5 around. However, I’m just starting to scan the color sheets that I’m getting back from the lab and I am enamored. Results [...]
