So I went to Carlsbad, with the sole intention of watching the bats and taking random shots. I walked around for a bit trying to take pics of signs, cacti, and pretty much anything else and not much was coming out for me. I haven’t gone into the caves yet – but that’ll be for another post. So nothing was coming out till on a whim I aimed upwards at the sky. I got this:
This gives me another area of photography to explore.
I didn’t realize it’s been over a month since I’ve posted. That’s unfortunate.
So, I’m going to another school for more education and will eventually curse the decision up until I get the piece of paper that says “Dr. Champion”. But – until then I should have some pretty awesome desert pictures over the next few years.
This picture is actually of my new school. I thought the concept and design of the school was really interesting and I think this makes an awesome scene.
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve made any sort of post here. So much for the daily posting goal. But, I have a good reason. I recently found out that I will be moving off to Arizona to continue my education in an entirely unrelated field to photography. (It’s cognitive science if you care.) So, thanks to this sudden change in my life I pretty much let this go for a bit.
Well, back to the photography.
I used this plant’s flowers a year ago in a shoot that I still have yet to edit. Truth be told, I thought the idea was cool – but the way I implemented the shoot was, less than that. So for the next year I very surprisingly did not kill this plant. It decided to actually do quite well and produce a total of 5 buds, and it’s still growing a sixth. So I set out to take pictures of it as it grew. I have a lot and I’ll occasionally throw some up – but I do enjoy this picture, even though I’m not that much into floral photography.
This may seem tricky; trying to write a blog a day. The idea is to keep myself continually engaged in this little experiment of mine: blogging.
So I’ll try to have at least one new image in here a week, if not more. This may be a bit odd at first, but never know.
Anyway, today’s image is another reclaimed image. The shoot it’s from was actually pretty short. I remember being somewhat dejected with it thinking I’d never pull anything out – but let everyone else be the judge.
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Over the years I’ve collected a lot of images. And I mean just gigs and gigs. Its been roughly estimated that I have at least a terabytes’ worth laying around here. Unfortunately most of it stays on my computer. But, tonight I diligently decided to purge old images and move them to one of my external hard drives. (With redundant off-site backup! Not that naïve.) It’s actually amazing what I’ve previously decided wasn’t worth editing, and what I’ve said “Oh…I’ll come back to that”. Well, I also took the time to peruse through these older images. I found one, not that old – but still one of those “Oh…I’ll come back to that” and edited it up. I always meant to go back to that shoot, and now I finally did. I like to call them reclaimed images. Whenever I do this, I usually toss off the original idea I had for the image and go about it in a different way – I think it worked.
Over the next few days, I’m sure I’ll go through a bunch more with probably only an additional edit or two.
I’m also equally amazed at what I thought was a good shoot, only to have it still look like utter junk.
Well, hello.
I’ve never been one to blog, and likely I still won’t be. But, I am blogging for art. So, the idea is that I’ll occasionally post images here that I have a particular story about or randomness about the image in general. Not everything will be of a fine art stance, but it will be of my work.
Check back. Bookmark it. RSS feed it (Hey I spent a long time figuring how to add that…) so yea.
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