Last semester I decided to do my independent study in underwater photography. So I bought an underwater camera and used the schools indoor swimming pool and just explored. For such a DIY project, I'm really happy with a lot of my images. Everything looks beautiful underwater.
I know this is something I want to do again in the future. Except maybe a little more professional like Howard Schatz.
This past summer I spent a month at Kala Art Institute's Residency Program in Berkeley, California. I was accepted there for my work in alternative photographic processes. My goal was to use images that I had taken throughout the school year and print them on a cyanotype silk fabric. Ultimately, the images would come out looking like this:
(minus the wrinkles of course)
After some failed attempts at getting all my images to print out perfectly on this fabric, I began to just admire the images as they originally were, in negative form.
The best part about photography is that you can look at the same image in so many different ways and have it mean so many different things.
Shlee and I shot our first wedding on September 19th in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Not only was it my first time shooting, but also my first time attending a wedding! Here are some of my favorite shots.
when you learn to properly frame an image in the viewfinder of a camera, you start to frame and catalog everything you see, whether you photograph it or not. and suddenly, memory has the shape of a rectangle.