Hands & Feet, Digital Imaging, and Fall

Yay I couldn't be happier with the weather lately. It's finally fall and its cool and wet. Although everyone is getting sick, I think its still great that lately we haven't had to deal with the nasty heat. So, cheers with the cool weather! Yay weather for tights! :D

I apologize for not having updated recently, but I have been really busy with my photography classes and with all my other basic ones. However, I wanted to update you all with some images I took.
For Photo II we had an assignment called Hands and Feet. The image had to have our hand or foot in it some way or the other. However, I have been lazy and was only interested in a few of the pictures I took. My professor did like the way I shot and found it to be humorous. She encouraged me to stick with that style and have fun shooting.
(You may click any picture posted here to view them in a larger form)

As for Digital Imaging, I was having some difficulty with my images. I wasn't too fond of them and I was not really appreciating what I had shot. After a meeting with my professor, I got an urge to go out and shoot what I like to shoot and not simply shoot because I have to. This definitely helped me a lot. In about less than an hour I have my first critique for this class and I admit to being a bit nervous, but excited. I hope to learn some new tips from my classmates and I cannot wait to see what they think of my photography.

Capture El Paso '09

Hello! So there has been this project called Capture El Paso in which El Pasoans can ad pictures to a website and people vote for the best and those chosen will be added into a book.
I had heard of this last year and I had completely forgotten it until now! So I have decided to add 3 pictures and hope they get voted on. It's ok if they don't haha.
Of course you have join in to vote, but it's not a 100 step process or anything. It would just be really cool if some people could vote on my pictures. So check it out!
If you click the images, they will take you to the individual pages to vote for them.

Wonderland TV by Joost Vanderbrug

I had always wanted to do something like this. Maybe sometime. When I have a lot of time and patience haha

New Enlargers!

So today during my Photo II class we had lab orientation once again. They've changed a lot of it! It was very exciting to see how much they actually moved things around. We also have some new enlargers which is completely awesome. I just have to relearn how to use them. I think one of the things I definitely am looking forward to using is fiber paper. It will definitely change the quality of the print and stuff so I am way way excited for it. I still need to edit some pictures that I have left over from El Paso and I also need to start shooting asap for class. I am quite excited :D
So more pictures will be posted up soon, for now I am just getting through with the first week :D Yay!

As I went through one of my favorite blogs, Homotography, I found this picture of Ash Stymest & Sasha Pivovarova by Steven Meisel. I am not a big fan of Ash (sorry Nacho!!) but I thought this cover of Vogue Italia was awesome. The colors are eye-catching and the expressions are awesome.