Illustrated Motion

Arrested Motion

The assignment is to use a high shutter speed in order to arrest motion.

Pinhole camera: Landscape

Pinhole camera: Self-portrait

Pinhole camera: Editorial

Pinhole camera: Close-up

Pinhole camera: Still Life

Pinhole camera: Geometric Distortion

This series of photos were taken with a homemade pinhole camera, for my class. I made mine out of a long skinny cardboard box, and therefore my shots are long and skinny! The pinholes were fun, but oh-so-labor-intensive! The original out of the camera image is a negative. These are contact prints made from the negative image. Only one shot could be taken at a time, then processed to see if I guessed the exposure correctly, so there were quite a few out-takes on these. They're difficult also because there is no viewfinder... I had to guess that my box was positioned correctly to get the image I wanted, not the sky or the dirt or whatever. But after hours and hours (and peeling fingers from all the darkroom chemicals!) I ended up liking these. I only posted one in each category: the assignment requires five in each category for a total of 30 usable shots.

I like how the collection hangs together. In all but the landscape there is an enclosing curvilinear form, and even in the landscape it is enclosing if not curvilinear.

Photogram: Free

Photogram: Round

Photogram: Self Portrait

Semper Fi

Raising the Colors

Nothing Like a Man in Uniform...

Devildogs

This English bulldog named Hummer is the mascot of the Marine Corps at Parris Island. Apparently, the German soldiers gave the Marines they battled the nickname "Devildogs", so their mascot is to remind them of that.

To walk a mile in his shoes...

Pvt Burgess, USMC

Remember this?


Or this?


Or even this?


We got our first glimpse today of our son, post-boot camp.


I used to nibble on those little ears.

Fancy Schmantsy

Lily

My parents gave me this cool vase for Christmas. It has three test tube thingies for the stems. And I'm a sucker for these rubrum lilies.

Two friends