Working on the very first photo assignment was intensely frustrating yesterday. It's not hard, it's just busywork. I understand the actual value behind doing this because he wants us to understand about equivalent exposures and get people to look at things from different angles..but the way we have to do it turns something I find cathartic into something that bores the hell out of me. I don't want to make this art into a science.

In other news, I've recently netflixed the Planet Earth series. I had been meaning to buy them for my dad for Christmas last year (when I wasn't poor as hell) and just steal them for my own purposes, but they were sold out. So..netflix is the next best thing. Watching that kind of stuff, especially the "Diary" segment they have at the end of each section, really makes me want to do that kind of stuff. I don't know, it's just a passing thought, but maybe something to look into later on.

Dude, fuck this photoclass. I hate the lame ass assignments...which I am currently putting off right now.






















with Lauren

I wanted a pretty, fresh, springy look. Thank you Shauna and Brittany!

Some inspiration for the day...

just some photos I took today in the rain.

I've had the fortune of making a few trips to Los Angeles this month with my friends.























I love Los Angeles. I'm drawn to places with a lot of history, I don't really know why. I'm always thinking about the past and what it was like. During the summer I'll often sit on the beach and contemplate the past lives of individual grains of sand. You don't have to tell me how odd that is. Really.

My photo class has actually inspired me to take photos again...probably because I finally figured out how to USE my camera. I feel like an idiot for saying this, but I've gotten along this far on a sort of half assed knowledge of the basic mechanics of photography...I'd just take pictures of things I found pretty. I'm hoping with more technical knowledge my photos will improve even more.

I'm also quite pleased because a publishing company in NYC has contacted me about using one of my photographs for a book jacket. I'm not going to say any more about it, but I'm really excited and I hope things go well.

In other news, I want you all to meet my little muse, Daniel Faraday. He was an impulse purchase one rainy afternoon with Robert, but he is no less loved for it.