Archive for January, 2010

I can see the light!

  • January 22nd, 2010
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While this mess has since been cleaned up (mostly) and the paper handed in (I got an A-), it pretty well illustrates how my semester has been (and continues to be). Right now I’m waiting for 162 RAW files to process to place into a time-lapse of contra dancing. I hope it works. I’ve never [ READ MORE ]

APME 2009: We came, we saw, we covered.

  • January 22nd, 2010
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Last week seems like a blur. One minute I was running around my apartment making sure I had A. enough clothes and B. all my photography equipment while trying to finish up a Fundamentals project, go to class, attend meetings and apply for next semester assistanships. [more on the Fundamentals project later.] Then I found myself [ READ MORE ]

Photo stories are easier to edit when they’re not mine.

  • January 22nd, 2010
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Almost midnight, Monday. This week’s (well, and last week’s too) project for Fundamentals was the classmate project. [cue scary music]We picked names out of a box for a round-robin style photo assignment, where I photographed someone, they photographed someone else, who was photographing someone else, and so on. The goal? Tell this person’s story. Whether it’s [ READ MORE ]

Project365: The end and the beginning

  • January 21st, 2010
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day 365 :: year three When I started my Project365 three years ago, I had no idea it would turn into such a production. For the first few months after I moved to DC in late 2006, I realized I hardly took photos anymore. This was totally unacceptable. The project seemed to be a great [ READ MORE ]

Finally!

  • January 20th, 2010
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***Edit: All has been restored. Only one post lost, but recovered. One comment gone with the wind. It could have been worse.*** FYI. My website was hacked, all my files deleted. Thanks to my webhost, I’ve got most of it back. I’ll be adding back whatever posts are missing after January 9th. (I think there [ READ MORE ]

Soft focus

Trying to photograph a memorial service in the cold, pitch black night is not an easy thing to do. I tried to play up the back lighting, steam breath and halos around the attendees, but nothing really read well. The one photo I really liked made it look like there were only a few people [ READ MORE ]

Snowpants: A photojournalist’s best friend

It’s been cold here. Actually, cold is an understatement. The jet stream has gone haywire and arctic air that usually stays way up north is blasting the country with some abnormally frigid weather. My grandmother in Florida said that planes were delayed at Sarasota International Airport due to ice on the wings. The airport does [ READ MORE ]

New Year’s can wait – first comes Seattle.

As you may or may not know, I am notoriously slow at posting photos of my adventures outside of my project365. So, while I would rather write a post about the exit of 2009 and entrance of 2010, I’m going go backwards a little to my recent jaunt to Seattle for the holidays. I’ve never [ READ MORE ]