sam and cat

i love to swing dance! i am so nerdy!

i love 4x5 film

these are my parents, i took these last year.

the last sunday of the month

today i found out that one of my visiting teachers works for an image consultant. i was thrilled to find out that in the real day to day world, there is someone you can hire for a personal evaluation on wardrobe, hair, makeup, and overall appearance. i thought maybe alissa would be interested in doing something like that, so i asked about it. she would make 40 dollars an hour to start out with, and she would be really good at it because she is so personable and kind. she would be able to help people that wanted help without seeming snotty. but during this whole conversation i was wickedly thinking, this girl (the visiting teacher who works for the image consultant) needs some image consulting herself. she has the wardrobe and appearance of a middle school teacher out of 1993. but who am i to judge?

here is the link to the company that does image consulting all over the united states.
you can pay $80 an hour to have a personal evaluation
the website really explains so much, you have to see it to believe it

i love photoshop. before and after.

i got a new camera

these are my favorite so far

maybe you shouldn't look

this is a recent photo to receive a prize by the world press organization. it feels strangely similar to the Vietcong traitor photograph by Eddie Adams. but not as poignant.


i recommend looking at some of the other winners from World Press Photo

i went to a rest home last night with valentines

people and their pets

my favorite family portrait of the night

meg as me!

the afterparty

friends

Birthday Pictures!

songs

ipod shuffle was good to me, i listened to animal collective, the smiths, the books, and i especially liked "woman king" by iron and wine. i wish i knew how to post songs on here.
on the way walking home, a BYU devotional by Jeffery R. Holland came on. it caught my attention because he told 2 detailed stories, and at the end he said that neither of them was true! but that were useful if you are ever giving a devotional. that is so funny! i would like to give a talk and make up some story and then tell everyone it wasn't true, that's a pretty good joke. then he talked about love as a "how" subject. and he expressed that love should be shown and not just felt. i thought that was good advice, we all know it is true but it is still good to hear.

BIRTHDAY!

I think I will be having a birthday thing on friday, everyone is invited. more details to come.....

love

chaunté

chriscoy

blasphemy

would it be blasphemy to say that most of the time, paintings are more striking than photographs? i know i am a photo major, but already i can see that i am more partial to my sketches than i am to my photography. lately i love the escape that comes with drawing because of the intimate focus it requires. it also requires me to take a chance, in that i must have faith that what the sketch will become, is greater than what i immediately see. often a photograph requires little faith because i can picture what the end result will be almost immediately. i love photography for that, it is good for me when my life is going fast. but right now i want to stop, i want to focus, and i want to have faith. i want to paint.

an uninspired drawing day

i need to learn how to draw crystals

ideas

for my editorial photography class i need to come up with 5 topics to do photo stories on. i am having trouble thinking of things in utah to document that interest me. i don't want to do anything that has already been done, or cliché or boring. i am not really a journalist, i get really nervous about photographing people iwithout them knowing.
I am considering documenting the indulgent spending utah that causes the state to be more in debt than anywhere else in america. for example, my 26 year old cousin lives in ogden and has what looks like a $30,000 SUV that i doubt he can afford. i would like to photograph him with it, and other people like him.
i might also photograph examples of the hunting community in Utah. my bishop is really into it.
other than that, i don't really know what to document.
are there any events in utah over the next semester that might be good to shoot?
does anyone have any ideas for me?

i want to take pictures that feel like this

father spenking

its me!

his name is fathead

found off the coast of new zealand, not kidding! i think it is also called a blobfish. pretty gross. it reminds me of something out of DUNE or deep space nine.

morning

it is so nice to be done with finals. i can just sleep in, sit around, eat food, and wear my pajamas all day. ahhhh, this is the life.

fine art still lifes i like

commercial still lifes (lives?) i like

the print lab finals week

i am going to go postal on someone. i have been here 2 hours trying to make one print. how hard can it be? no editing, nothing. just trying to make one print. i am going crazy !!!!

bones and things

ppan finished?