Vassar

So, i went up to Vassar College, which is in New York state, a few weeks ago...

this one could be cool with another picture layerd over it...once i figure out how to do that...

Grandmother Willow!!! heh again, when i figure it out(which probably won't be till schools out this summer) 

Some Still Lives

Kitties are sooo cute. no question.

sooo it was warm outside FINALLY! so of course i had to go outside. and follow kitties around. they were being good models so i had to take some pictures as well. :-D 

and then i got some 30 day photo editor trial. so i had to edit some of them. of course. 

he was posing. 

after some editing 

O.O self...

yay for marty graw beads! 

that one i kinda creepy...

yeah. interesting day...

:-P

Andre Kertesz (1894-1985)

André Kertész was born in Hungary, in1894. He bought his first camera while working as a clerk at the Budapest stock exchange in 1912. After years of snapshot photography, he moved to Paris in 1925 and began a career as a self-employed photographer. There, he took to the streets, observing and developing his close approach to image making. He also met and began to photograph other artists, including Brassaï and Chagall, and members of the Dada Movement. One of them dubbed him "Brother Seeing Eye", an allusion to a medieval monastery where all the monks were blind except one.

From 1933 to 1936, Kertész published three books of his own photographs. Immigrating to the United States in 1936 with his wife to escape the increasing tension in Europe leading up to World War II, he settled in New York, where he earned his living photographing architecture and interiors for magazines such as House and Garden.

However, his personal photographic style did not mesh well with the straightforward fashion photography the American public expected. He continued to exhibit his individual work as best he could but his reputation slowly faded, and he became disillusioned.

Kertész then had a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 which relaunched his career and reputation. He caught the mood of the times and became somewhat of an elder statesman to the photographers of the late 1960s and early 1970s. By the mid-1970s he was presenting his work in galleries all over the world. He continued working very efficiently, and was experimenting with instant Polaroid photography shortly before he died in New York.

--In this picture there are people walking through a tight allyway, in a dirty, sooty city. Behind them there is a tall bridge with a train on it, beyond the train there is empty space. 

--I really liked this one because its shows the buisiness of the city with the people and the train, but farther in the backround it seems the city abruptly stops, putting an end to the hysteria. 

--there is an eagle's veiw of a park? with people skattered around it. There is a huge, curved arch of a building at the top of the picture and its shadow is casted down on the people below. It has an almost cristalized look to it. 

--I thought the shadows on the ground of this one were very cool. They remind me of a great clock, like the one in London. 

--A picture through a high, windwo at the city. There is a hole, cracking the glass. 

--This one was just cool. I don't know how he got that window so cleen; it doesn't even look like a window...if it is through a window that is...

--A still life of a flower in a glass, the flower is drooped all the way over till it is almost touching the ground. It is full of shadows and very dark where the light isn't hitting it. 

--I would imagin this picture is very symbolic of something. dieing probably. 

--Two pairs of old, round, glasses lying on a table next to a Mondrian's pipe. the table is light witht the dark lines of the glasses and the edge of the table form a funky frame the pipe in the center. 

--These glasses remind me of colonial times, and Ben Franklen. I like the abrupt edge in the backround. 

Hey people! so as some of you may know, i went out to Nevada for the week and my brother and I combined took over 800 photos!!! So. I am understandably not going to show you all of them, but here are a few anyways! :-)

this was out of the plane window. because clouds are one of my favorite things EVER!

yay for flowers :-)

and the ceiling had flowers on it too. it was a very colorful hotel i must say.

So i discovered how to keep the shutter open longer for night photos, unfortuatly that means the camera needs to be kept very still, which did not work very well for me. *this was the best one of like 10*

This one was cool, no editing i swear, that was the reflection through the window.

TRAIN!!!!

I love roads. They're such good story tellers.

OMG THIS WAS THE COOLEST TREE EVER!!!!

in the middle of absolute nowhere, there was this huge tree covered in shoes. it was so amazing! but my dad didn't want to drive late at night so unfortunately i didn't get to go picture crazy T.T

and some pretty flowers.

This way to the edge of the earth. MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!

And thats all for today folks come back again in a year and maybe there will be something more. :-P

I shall pour out my heart and soul as it is to you and you shall attempt to comprehend its whimsical thoughts...

GOOD - Good is subjective. Even though something may seem bat at one moment, it may serve a greater purpose for the better. Is it good to criticize someone? Maybe not, but it may help them grow more than flattery would. It forms a conclusion I often find myself unfit to make.
Good is living in the moment. having fun. never regretting. or second guessing. it is acceptance. and strength.

ART - A state of mind, an expression, realizing, individuality. It is everywhere and defines the world. It is personal. It comes from the heart. It should not be judged.

PHOTO - A reflection, brief glimpse of history, reminds me of ghosts because a picture holds not what is happening, but what has happened. It is thoughts. and memories.

ME FIRST QUARTER - I was slightly over confident. I didn't really think about why something made a good picture - just whether it did or not. My mindjust works that way... I did not take very many pictures of the same subject ether. I had no doubts that they would come out. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing seeing as all of them have thus far. (with the exception of my light exposed roll) I also shot more film in first marking period because of the longer days. Now when i get home from school its almost dark but i hope that changes as the days grow longer again. :-)



My kitty's water dish was covered in snow!