Month: January 2014

The New Semester…

… is already in Week 3.  We hit the ground running with our morning professor.  I’ll get into the breakdown of how things are working in another post.

Just know that portraiture is out of my comfort zone when it comes to photography.  I guess it’s just because I’ve never really tried all that hard with it.  Well, it would fit that our morning professor has given us Portraiture as our in-depth study topic regarding photography this semester.  The first project, which is due for me in about 3.5 hours, was to be a study of the human form.

This study is a self-portraiture series using a flashlight to shine a hard light on my body to highlight specific areas.  The images chosen focus on my head and facial area.  To be perfectly honest, I’m a little emotional over seeing how these played out and I’m actually evaluating why that is in my mind.

But enough of that, here is my first project.  Please leave feedback when you can.

Project 1 (8 of 8) Project 1 (7 of 8) Project 1 (6 of 8) Project 1 (5 of 8) Project 1 (4 of 8) Project 1 (3 of 8) Project 1 (2 of 8) Project 1 (1 of 8)

Forward, March!!

The Year 2014 is now upon us.  Each new year brings with it new possibilities and new chances to start fresh on things we would like to improve, either with ourselves or our environment.  It is important, however, to remember that from which we came.

For me, I’ve come off a rather busy semester and have been accepted into a program that, from what I’m told, will make this past semester look like playtime.  I’m definitely looking forward to the challenge.  I’ll be learning from 3 different professors: Delilah Montoya (the head of the PDM department at the University of Houston), Keliy Anderson-Staley (in her 2nd semester as a UH professor), and Arianne Roesch (making her professorial debut at UH).  I’ve yet to learn from Ms. Anderson-Staley (although we’ve met) and Ms. Roesch, so this should be a very interesting semester.

I said in the 1st paragraph that it’s important to remember that from which we’ve come as we move forward.  With this in mind, the image I present to you is the grid of all of the “daily” photos I took in 2013.  There are 157 total images in this grid.  Let’s face it, taking a pic every day can be mentally exhausting when there are so many other, more important, priorities throughout the day.  Some days have multiple images associated with them.  I removed all the context, yet kept them in their chronological order.  I encourage any of my readers to share their thoughts with me on this or any of my blog entries.

At this point I will wrap up this entry and say,”good night and happy 2014!”

2013 Photo Grid

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