ramblings

Currently, I am listening to Micheal Buble, I am remembering when I truly fell in love with the idea of romance. I think it was a deadly combination of working at a restaurant, where I was constantly miraged with the sight of attractive couples having enchanting dates at a comfy table that I was obliged to arrange for them, and I was on one of my Buble' kicks. The song "Wonderful Tonight" was an anthem played over, and over in my car. This song was written by Eric Clapton, I listened to the Buble' version. Somewhere around a year later when I was watching a documentary about The Beatles I discovered that Georges wife, whom he loved, left him, and was wed to Eric Clapton. Anyways, how does this relate? Well, I will tell you that it is said that Wonderful Tonight was written for Georges ex wife. The song that brought me to a deepened love of romance, was actually related to a tragedy! Poor George...

Butterflies

Summer breeze wisps over my skin. The sweet smell of lush pine. Small smudges of purple, orange, yellow, and blue play along my path. I am on a hike, alone, in the wilderness, experiencing a unique sense of bliss.
As I trek along this ethereal trail I ponder art experiments, ways to conduct them and other pleasant things. God has provided us with the best art, and therefore the best inspiration.
"He leads me beside quiet waters..."
As I walk I discover that I missed a turn on the trail. So I turn back and take the route down to the most tranquil stream I have experienced. I cross over the water by way of stones, then I experience something unique: whilst I am approaching many yellow and coco colored butterflies begin to rise up from the earth. I walk through them, surely this must be the type of quiet waters spoken of in Psalm 23.
"you prepare a table before me..."
Coincidently my destination for that day was table rock.
"In my fathers house there are many rooms... I am going there to prepare a place for you."
Just as he prepares a table for us, he also prepares space in heaven. If the beauties of the hike were so great, imagine how much better heaven will be.
"You know the way to the place where I am going."
We must follow Christ on the trek of life, through life's fields of poppies, mountains, cliffs, and quiet waters.

Stream of Consciousness

Lately i have been doing exercises in stream of consciousness. Here is one I prepared for you. In most of my stream of consciousness exercises I am honest with what pops into my head, and I would be embarrassed to show you some of them. It is a good exercise, and would recommend it. I have learned about myself, and have become aware of some thought processes that I need to change.

Chained to a tree, she longs to see her grace reflected in her cool wake.

Stream of consciousness exercise. Related to the book Ulysess. I can’t wait to read. Hope other book club members will not object. Maybe read on my own? Grecian cover? Ernest Hemingway. The sun also rises. Yellow and orange. Matador. Quick precise phrases. Brett. Evil. Mananizer. Jake, loves brett, cool guy, people pleaser, misused. Robert cohn, kinda a moron. Liked him at first proving himself to be a wuss. Micheal weirdo, puts up with too much from Brett. Characters shallow. Taken in by beauty of Brett. Do not see the caddiness to her.....dogs, puppys, cats. Sloan. Felix. Sloan. Black fur. Soft. Snugglebug. Lomo lc-a love. Want it. black metal body. Fabulous pictures. Grainy high color saturation. Beautiful picture of attractive male in back of a truck . it appears to be Africa or spain. Matador, bull fights. Horns. boxing. Blood spilling steers being injured . inhumane. Sad. Swords in side. Jesus. Nails in hands. Hanging on cross. Wounds on sides. Emancipated me from punishment of sin. Heaven. Glory. 

new obsession

Vintage Love

Well, I have become obsessed over getting another camera for my collection. I thought that my Diana was all I would need of the big name lomography cameras, but I was wrong. While spending some serious time looking through many pictures on lomography.com I have been struck on numerous occasions of the sheer magic, and mood that is captured by a little camera known as the Lomo LC-A. There is a certain grainy quality that I just can't resist. Readers, i am afraid that I am going to end up blowing more money on another toy! This is the sort of fear that I fancy. Yes, I still love my Diana, and would never replace her. The Lomo LC-A, of course would not be a replacement to my beloved blue camera but a brother to her.

Readers, as far as my photo class is going, I am slightly behind on the current project. Part of this I attribute to the large distraction of lomography. I find it more difficult to try, and take a whole role of a subject assigned. Analog photography offers endless possibilities, that is why I am so drawn to it. Taking a roll of shadow pictures is not as easy as it would seem, I guess it is a good exercise to try and stretch my abilities to make the images worth looking at.

So, if anyone wants to give me a very early Christmas present, I would like the Lomo LC-A please!

Class

I am just going to throw in some pictures that I took a while back.

Here is a paper that I wrote for my ASL class about photography class, I am kinda proud of it.

Again, loving the contrast here

Photography Class

On Thursday September thirtieth I attended Santa Rosa Junior Colleges elementary photography class, in which I am enrolled in, from twelve pm to three pm. I would have been at the deaf celebration in Sacramento if it weren’t for this conflict in schedule. At class the teacher, R. Breth, showed us students six different images that are almost identical. This was an example of a success for the project that we have been assigned, taking an abstract image, that we have taken ourselves, and developed, then printing it six different times using filters zero, one, two, three, four, five, and six.  After about forty-five minutes of lecture, it was time for lab work. Unfortunately, I lost my negative that I was using for the project, and a print. After much thorough searching, I was able to find the print, and a few other important things that I thought were long gone. The precious negative, sadly, was lost to me. Without the negative I was forced to begin the project once more. I found my second choice negative, which was one of the two that Mrs. Breth had told me it was okay by her to use. Then without much shock, but enough agitation I discovered that all of the enlargers were in use, after I was suffered to wait longer than I would have deemed enjoyable. When an enlarger was ready for me to use, I commenced get my negative centered, and focusing. After this, I made a few test strips, to decide which exposure would be best. After determining the exposure time, I easily made for prints using filters zero through four. I developed these four, and was quite pleased with the outcome. There before me sat four perfect prints with variations in contrast with beautiful print density.  

Abstract

Recently in Photography class our assignment was too take abstract photos, and to print a serious of them using filters 0-5. Being the scatter-brain that I am, naturally I lost my negative that I was using for this project so I after searching oh so many a nook and cranny in the photo lab, I decided to regroup. I began the project again, the first photo in this series is my first choice, and the second is one I had to settle for. I am disappointed to be wasting this much paper, I will have to be replacing mine soon. I am glad for the next project in which we are assigned to take pictures of shadows, and if it rains... reflections! Anyways, I am hoping to get some creativity on! Thanks for reading, and thanks for the comments, they are appreciated much!!!