Growing my summer skin.

Today, was the last day that I will be printing in the darkroom for four long months :( With the end of the spring semester brings the end of work and stress. But with the happy end of these things brings the sadness as my friends and I leave each other for what will be the longest summer of our existence. As my last week ends I decided to spend the rest of my wednesday after noon (I had a final this morning!) printing photos that I have been wanting to print from old and new negatives. I must say, it was a good day in the darkroom because I printed three prints and finished printing one that I had started on Friday.  Just a forewarning I had scanned all of these images in and that it why they are fussy :)

She was really happy for me to take her picture.

She's crooked from scanning oops! 

I love this guys dog! Look at his face! But what drew me to him was his flowers.

This is one of the guys in madison square park. The stone/metal guys? You know the ones on the buildings. Haven't seen them? Go to MSP and look up! (This guy was on the ground haha)

I thought she was just lovely.

This is actually a scanned negative- although I do have the print. This was taken during January at my home.

End of the Semester

This Friday I have my critique of all the work that I have done for the year! Which consists of the color and Black and White photographs that we have printed. All the freshmen in the photography have their critique during the time that they would have their workshop class. For the spring semester, in my workshop class we had to come up with a series of photographs with a consistent theme. I decided to do something on architecture.

At first I wasn't sure what and went around New Jersey looking for something to inspire me. When I got back to New York, during the first workshop class I had a number of photographs that I was enthused about and immediately started printing away. I was thoroughly enjoying my work and what I was producing. Although for a few weeks I had began to doubt my series and strayed away; I had come back to it in the last two weeks and created work that I thought went well with the photographs that I had taken in New Jersey.

Yesterday, I spend 5 hours printing the last of my photographs for my series. Happily, I hung my work on the wall and my friends and I looked at how it had all come together. Today, I am posting those photographs along with the rest of the series. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.

New Series

I have abandoned the prior idea for my series, that I have been working on in my color workshop class. I had started in the beginning of the semester to work with architecture, that you can see here. For some reason I had changed my mind and thought to go back to working with people. The idea that I had come up with for that series can be seen here. I realized after 4 weeks of working on that series that I was trying to push it too much, I had one good photograph and that was it. Everything else was too forced and was not producing the imagery that I wanted. I think that it was the way that I was going about it and also the fact that I was not that enthused about the subject matter. So last week I decided to go back to architecture, and I am very please with the results. In the photographs that I have printed so far have been taking roof tops and cutting them from the rest of the building. All of the photographs seem to have an industrial feel so far. Here are three of the photographs that I was able to print on Friday. These photographs were all printed on  11x14 paper, that is why they are fuzzy when you click on them. My scanner is not big enough to fit them on the screen so I had to let them float a little bit above the scanner.

In Chinatown, next to my favorite dumpling place.

From the same building as above.

A building next to a playground in SoHo.

A lot of people in my class think it looks like a jail. 

This next photograph was taken over winter break and I had never added it to one of my prior blog posts. I think it works well with the series. Size: 8x10