My Summer

I have accomplished nothing useful. BUT, i did watch a very potter musical 8 times in a week, read all the harry potters twice, and watching a ludicrous, out of this WORLD amount of television.




It wasn't a total waste. :)

Crap Pictures

These are some more pictures from that website of slades, but they are crap. This is probably the lamest project idea in the history of the world. They are taking pictures of junk, and they are not that great of images alone. They are not unique, they are terrible images and it is just overall lame.


Dirty dishes. Wow. Who would have thought of that.

Sweet Photographers

As slade said, there were some of these guys that were no bueno, but i filtered some of them out. These are my favorites.

BRAD WILSON: World Religion









I think that this idea is really awesome, for lack of a better word. I really enjoy how he juxtaposed all of the religions together even though in real life they do not go together all that great. My favorite is the catholic cross with the hands, because i like how the beads draw your eyes in circles, and that it is balanced, but off center with the cross.

KERRY MANSFIELD: Borderline









i am unsure why this project is called borderline, but i really really like it. It is maybe a touch too busy, but i like how they have almost two images in one. Its like doublemint gum.

JONATHAN SMITH: Photoliminal









These skulls are awesome! He lights them really well, and they are just plain interesting. I think that they are unique, and according to the slade equation, unique+camera=good.

KATHRINE LANNAN: The Intervention



This is one of my top 3 all time favorite images EVER. The lighting is awesome, the composition is amazing, and the idea is just plain astounding. this gets an A+.

JEFF HUTCHENS: Planet in Peril: Battle Lines









so this dude is pretty cool, too. This bottom one is my favorite. i like the shadows and the mountains.
DORNTIH DOHERTY: Archiving Eden








I like these because they reminded me of slade's bean plants, except like a negative, kinda. They are sweet. They are balanced. They are awesome.

INES D"OREY: Porto Interior









Again one of my favorite images of all time is the bottom one. It s balanced and it has sweet colors and lighting. Again, AWESOME.

SUSAN BURNSTINE: Within Shadows










I have accidentally blogger about her before, specifically about the bottom image. Now i discovered that she has a whole series, and they are awesome. Yay Susan Burnstine.

BRIAN BUCKLEY: Instant Shadows: Photograms









I don't even know what these are, but they rock. I think this is my favorite series because they go the best together. Again the bottom one is my favorite.

Final Project

For my final project, as i'm sure most of you know by now, is feet. I got the idea because feet are incredibly important. I sat and thought about how much of a load (literally) our feet take, with minimal complaints. An average person walks 3.5 miles a day**and the responsiblity is placed mainly on the feet. Imagine for a moment, life without feet. Tragic, eh? So, to exibit the many wonderous and amazing talent of feet, I took pictures of feet.]

I used grayscale conversions in lightroom, and i made them diptycs.

This image is from our own Katie Van Sleen. I had my models chose the shoes that ment the most to them for one way or another, and katie choose these. Even though the bottom one is soft (tear), i really like this image. It is such a katie thing to do, and it amazes me that her feet can embody her personality.



This is Alex Cassel. She is on my volleyball team, but she is also really amazing at high jumping (she took 2nd in state). She was really really excited about me shooting her in her spikes, but she was nervous about her barefeet. That really came across. With no possible way to vocally express their shyness, these feet were shy.

This is Meghan Bernstein. She is an exceptional Ballerina, so i had her model in her pointe shoes. Her shoot was probably the easiest, because the shoes already came with a variety of poses, and there was no poking and prodding to make her do something cool. The one with the shoes on was actuially not my favoite image of the with shoes, but it was the one that went the best with the barefoot one. If you would like to so the best image, i will post it momentarrily.

This is David Beesley. It is widely known that david is very adament about going to church, and is very passionate about his religon. I decided that the shoes that embody him the best are his chuch shoes. He won the award for the weirdest feet, but his images were some of the strongest of the bunch. His weirdness added to the quality of the images, though he would probably disagree.

This is emma sindelar. Emma plays soccer. Alot. She decided that her feet are best described with cleats, so that is what i shot her in. Her images are not my favorite, but the barefoot one is in my top three.

This is Charlie Shaw, who runs cross country for colorado college. He won the award for the most confident about his feet, which made him easy to shoot. He had been painting during the day, and was excited to show off his paint feet.

Alexandra Macfarlane is a very fashionable person. She loves her shoes like I love my computer, which is hard to do. Her choice was her red pumps, which fit her persona perfectly. Her pose is my favorite of the bunch. It reminded me of a classy 50s movie star. I'm not totally sure why, though.

The most interesting part of this project was that even though the shoe was "who the person was", the barefoot reveald more about the person, inadversatintly. They were shy, showing off and disgusted. It was so interesting to me to see that people do not need accesories to show off who they really are.

** all statistics are entirely fake.