Grandaddy's Birthday/Farm Time Part 1

I went to my grandparent's farm on May 8th to visit my grandaddy for his birthday cookout. Towards the end of the party, Michael and I went photo safaring around the farm. These are blades on a piece of machinery.

This is a backlit leaf on some crop.

This is my granddaddy! Opening his birthday presents! It was really nice to be able to hang out with my family, especially now that I have moved to go to school. Leaving has made me value the time I get to spend with them that much more. 

Portfolio Showing

May 7th- We had our first year photography student portfolio showing for the spring semester today. This is a picture towards the end of the showing. Of 1/4 of the second year studio, where the showing was held.

This is me with my entire portfolio. (The two on the far left are Cara's though) My dad is in the red shirt looking at the display!

Thanks to either David Ray or Michael Hughes for taking this picture! Not sure which person took this!

All Night Portfolio Printing

This was from the night Michael, Ian, and I pulled an all nighter to get our portfolios done! This is my dog, Winston, sitting snuggly in the steps watching us drying our paper and vaccuming up the water that had spilled all in the basement on about 3 hours of sleep each! I thought the Ilford paper was a nice touch for the goal of the night.

Solar Powered Fountain

After a hectic morning of classes, our first final exam, and a short portrait critique, a few friends and I sat down to chat on the sidewalk and, in one case catch a last portfolio shot. This is a fountain outside of our health and science building that is directly powered by solar radiation. It's a pretty cool contraption (until the sky clouds over).

Days in the Studio

Portfolio week has officially begun! From sun up to sun down our entire first year class will be processing film, developing pictures, mounting final projects, looking over contact sheets, cramming for our final exams, and trying not to go to sleep in the small dark spaces we will be in!
I shot this picture tonight right after finishing two of my portfolio images! This is the wall of processing chemicals! Hopefully I will be done with everything early this week so I can go on some REAL photo safaris!

Board Games

I traveled to my friend Ian's house to do some schoolwork today, and had the pleasure of meeting two guys from his church. After eating dinner they got out this board game I had never seen before and they invited me to join. It was awesome! Even better than Monopoly, and we were definitely getting competitive. The picture above is a shot of the board midgame!

These were my pieces!


And this is a closer view of a single hexagon on the board.

Michael

Michael and I had just gotten home from a movie. I snapped this 30 second exposure of him as we were taking the dogs out!