Africa

my favorite photos are ones i took in Africa a couple of years ago.

videos!

some videos i shot and edited moi self por escuela. man, was i happy to get them done!

more art

a color study done for an end-of-year project.

in the mix

my friends brooke and paul are getting married! here are their engagement photos.

i heart art

here are some photos i did for art photography. bad to the bone.

la tee da

mostly, i've only been working on who's who portraits. but here are some engagement photos i took of friends.
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something old, something new

i like to look back at my old pictures and think about what i might do different. i can tell what pictures were taken at the beginning of my school career and although i may not be better but by a little, i can tell i've improved. for instance, here are some photos from the 4th of july in 2005.

a very political week

i met ray mabus, former governor of mississippi and a former foreign ambassador to saudi arabia. he was campaigning for Obama. then somehow, Clinton decided to stop by with his dear friend Ashley Judd in boring old Abilene. Here are the pictures that resulted.

wash rinse repeat

i have insomnia. these pictures suck.

artsy fartsy

our new assignment for art is called "seeing things." we are required to take different angles of pictures and look at an object that may have a double meaning (such as a wad of chewed gum= gum ball).
i made a pinhole camera and took a few pictures.

new art project

our new assignment for art photography is to take really abstract pictures that may perhaps resemble something else completely or be graphically metaphorical. i wish i knew more about what it is exactly he is looking for. i guess i kind of know but i'm still not entirely sure.

i think he wants something like these, angular and off-beat and slightly cracked-out.



let's hope i can do this!

the art of criticism or the criticism of art?

i finally finished my art photography portrait project. however, i got some pretty severe criticisms from my professor.
i thought my pictures for art were decent and got them printed and mounted in the tom of time only to be discredited for technical problems-- i got the wrong matt size, i neglected to remove the white trim from my picture edges, etc. --and lack of creativity. lack of creativity???? ME? i have never lacked the ability for creativity. my pictures were not of any great symbolic consequence, true, but i DID put much care into the production of them. my professor wounded me to my core with his criticisms and then proceeded to sarcasticly thump the bloody gash. he is a boob. do you think they have any value?


other than being depressed about art class photos, i had an excellent shoot at the zoo for a photo feature in wednesday's issue of The Optimist. i would have liked to have more photo caption information but the features editor had a certain design in mind so a lot of really interesting information was left out for reasons unknown to myself. i had loads of great quotes and facts that would have made the spread so much more informative. i suppose i should just be thankful for having a good shoot. for a minute, i was getting worried i had lost my touch altogether.