Rice Math

1 cup white rice + 1.5 cups water – 0.5 cup steam = 3 cups fluffy white rice How does this work?

ART390: Final Project

Here it is, the result of several gigabytes of photos and many hours of editing and sorting. The final project for ART390, Digital Photography. Series A:    Series B:    Series C:    Series D:    Series E:     Series F:    Series G:   

ART390: Final Project Extras

Because I do everything with great redundancy… here are the sets that didn’t go in the final project. These are backup sets, or sets that were considered as alternates. Series V:    Series W:    Series X:    Series Y:    Series Z:   

Personal Health and Wellness

I have finished HEA110, Personal Health and Wellness. I feel like I haven’t really learned that much, but somehow I managed to get 937 out of 1000 points (93.7 is the final numerical grade, becomes an A on the transcript). One course down, one more to finish off.

Forgetting to Do Simple Things

Since starting my digital photography class I have had a few of my photos printed professionally (about 250 or so). I have collected a few of the Kodak envelopes full of my photos (consolidated them into as few as I could). After the first few sessions of printing I decided I wanted a photo album […]

Picking Studio Art Courses

Most semesters I know what studios I want to take, it is just so obvious to me. For Fall 2008 it is a little more challenging. I was originally presented with a very slim assortment of studio courses to take…primarily I was left with Sculpture 1. Now, through courses being added and instructors agreeing to […]

Fun Dark Room Technique

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/grass-art/ I found this article to be very amusing, somewhat interesting and a bit inspiring. I guess this proves that there are some things that you just can’t do with digital photography (although its easy enough to get slides made). This stuff seems about as useless as ice sculpture, but grass photography seems more interesting. 

Difficult Subjects

In the past few weeks I have been trying a variety of subjects, mostly flowers, but also some of their "visitors". I have found photographing bees to bee very difficult. It is very hard to get a bee to sit still for a photo. They like to fly around, I guess checking out the best […]

ART390 – Lesson 9

"Make six images of a public space. This could be outside in a park, parking lot, grocery store—anywhere that the public can go"   "Make six more images of a private space"