Art Students' Juried Exhibition

So this whole "Thinking in Series" thing actually paid off. At the behest of one of my professors, I entered five of the images from the series into the competition and one of them was selected to be displayed at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery at the ODU campus. Quite an honor considering the juror was Amy Brandt, The McKinnon Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Chrysler Museum. In my previous post, it's the picture of the sign that says, "End of Ramp." Yeah... don't ask my why she picked that one.

Today, we were introduced to our next project, "Thinking Outside the Box". Kinda excited to get started on it but have no idea what concept, direction to go with it.

Thinking in Series (update)

After a lot of struggle with the conceptual idea of this project, I've finally distilled it to being about a place. I spent a lot of time in the South Virginia Beach/Pungo area either living or working with various persons on many projects - usually construction or ministry. I've always liked it out there, being away from the city and the hassles associated with it. In the series I've tried to capture what made me reflect on past events there - whither I was cognizant of them or not.

Thinking in Series

Today I had some time before my doctor's appointment and started shooting some images for my photography class. The assignment was to capture images that were a series of something but with a conceptual twist. I chose long exposure. I'll get more up later this evening if I have time.

Portraits

Forgot to mention that I have been doing a little photography when I have time. The other week my friend, Ed, asked me to do his portrait for his family. I think they turned out pretty good. I forgot how "standard" Navy portraits are done and had to ad-lib. And it's been snowing so it was a good opportunity to capture some images of that. The other is of Freddie, my roommate and his car.

Spring 2013

This semester is shaping up to be pretty intense. 3 out of my 4 classes require online work or posting of some kind. This blog, as required by my Photography 3 class, hopes to detail my progress through this semester — hopefully with a lot of images posted.

On top of the academic work, my house is falling down around my ears. It's such a distraction to have to worry about a leaky — almost caving in roof. As God's provision would have it, the director of my church's military ministry is also a contractor and offered to help me replace the flat (leaky) portion of the roof (for a nominal fee).