Happy Easter!!

Thanks to my sister, I had some extra time this week, and that allows me to enjoy this beautiful day fully without the idea of hw tagging along with me. Woohoo!!...

I have a few non related things to share regarding my photography in this blog.

1. This week in my Concept and Critical Analysis Class we are finishing the book Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. As a photographer and someone with my Bachelors in Philosophy I am loving this book. It is the philosophy of a photograph. Very interesting stuff, depending on what your into.

2. I found a great place to get Camera Equipment repaired and over the spring break I had my Canon EFS 10-22mm lens repaired and OMG I never knew it was that broken until I shot my good friends house the other night. Here is the image from that shoot, which I am ecstatic with. Although the shadows are a little deep in parts of the image the overall color quality is what I am going for and the clarity is amazing. These images are going to be printed large and so there is a vast difference between viewing them on a monitor and seeing them in person, but I guess that can be said for all of my work, well actually any art work period needs to be experienced in person, but I digress.. here is my thesis development image for this week.



3. I purchased another external hard drive, my first 1 terabyte drive! And so now begins the long drawn out process of backing up and organizing my entire photographic catalogue. I am kind of excited about doing this, but also a little intimidated. Taking 1000's of images and filing them away so they can be found easily is daunting. Also I need to twin my drives, another task all you people with critical info on your hard drives need to consider doing. (Twining is when you make an identical replica of a hard drive so just in case one fails you have a copy, you then store them in separate locations so that you are safe from theft and fire). So much to think about, but if you do not back up your work, when your computer or hard drives fail, AND THEY WILL FAIL, you will have nothing). So over the next few weeks/months I will be backing up my work and as I see imagery I would like to share I will post it.

With that said HAPPY EASTER!! or have a beautiful day in this lovely weather if you don't celebrate it.