Diptychs

Sooooo I realize it's been forever since I last posted. Superrrrrrr Sorry! A lot has happened, I'll save those stories/photos for another time. This is my first photography assignment that's due tomorrow. They are called Diptychs, which is two photos that are related somehow. Mine are pretty straightforward I think, but anyways.. Here we go..

I want to give a HUGELY GINORMOUS thank you to both Lindsay and Stefan for letting me borrow their cameras while mine is out of the running.

I will post a little about my Spring Break trip to Portland a little later. :)

Now back to homework..

Almost There..

So I realize I fail with this whole 'let's take cool pictures and post them for people to see' thing. The two rolls of film I took with my dad's camera, and sweet lens didn't really work out so well. Only a partial roll worked.. but only kinda. I'm not sure what I did, but i'm sure it was something that will make me feel stupid. This just mean's he'll have to give me lessons or something since I keep having trouble with his camera!

This term hasn't lent itself well for taking too many pictures anyways. However, next term I am taking photography II!! So hopefully I will learn more tricks and become an okay photographer. I am really excited for spring break, and it is taking its sweet time getting here. Winter term has never been too hard for me, but this time it was a killer. Good thing it's almost over!

Oh, the film that did turn out, I didn't get into the lab in time to print anything.. and I don't have money to have them printed for me.. So it'll have to wait until April. I am so sorry, I know you all were looking forward to seeing them soooo much. Not really and it's cool. (They're not that great.) So you're not missing anything.

Anyways.. here is a sweet idea..

It's old film slides strung together to be blinds! How cool would that be?!

Also,

This is Jason Reeves, not only does his music rock, but he is an awesome photographer as well.

Time for a Break

So i've been pretty busy lately... it being dead week and all.. i'll be surprised if I make it through this week alive. after all it is dead week.

I just finished my major psych project a little while ago. and I am quite brain dead you see, it is dead week.

The project was a lot of fun, and I got to learn a lot about myself, and see pictures I have never seen before. such as:

I hope you enjoyed these as much as I did. THey all made me smile or laugh. THey remind me of a simpler time, where Dr. Seuss was the best... OH wait.. he still is.

and did you know that today is his birthday?

Well.. now you do.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)

Time to study for my exam in a few hours. YAYY all nighters!!

SO Lame

Soooo I feel super lame, I just realized I haven't posted since the 19th.. I feel kinda bad! I just don't have any new photos.. I've been stressed with school so I haven't really had a chance to be awesome. I have film being developed.. so hopefully i'll get that soon and be able to post some prints...

It's really windy/rainy today.. I love it.

This is super sweet.

Look Here

The end.

Hopefully I'll have something new to share soon.

Until then.. Enjoy!

Lock In!!

So I have nothing new to show you, just to tell you.

Things have been up and down for me recently. The house is starting to feel more and more like the apartment did last year. If you don't know what that means, it's ok. I just feel bad, pretty much every day that passes it reminds me a little more. School is getting really difficult, I am just so burnt out, I really need a break. Luckily it's just a few more weeks until spring break. Hopefully everything will get better all around.

On a happier note, the weather has been really nice, but I haven't been able to get out and take pictures. :( Class and sickness do not care that it is pretty outside. Hopefully this weekend will be nice so I can get out!

Anyways...

Today I participated in an event called the Lock-In. This is where a bunch of police agencies come in and put on simulations and teach us about their different fields within criminal justice/criminology. There were three different rotations with 2 sub-rotations each. The ones I did were:

*Shoot/Don't Shoot

This is where you interact with a scene on a screen. it is throwing you into a situation and you have to decide if lethal force is necessary. This wasn't as fun, you are yelling at a screen with a laser gun that didn't work half the time. The officer said this isn't used as much as it used to be.. I can see why.

*SWAT Simulation (Active Shooter)

This one was my favorite! we were working with the Medford SWAT team, which is full time police, part time SWAT. We were briefed on what they do, and why they are important. We then learned about their formations, and why they form the way they do. It was then time to break down into small groups, we had a group of 7 so it broke down into 4 and 3. My group had 4, and we learned to walk as a group and how to move into a room with an active shooter. I was center point (I'm pretty sure that's right). So there was a girl directly behind me, and one on either side of me slightly behind me. I was front and center! We then went to gear up! We got masks and the glocks, they had foam rounds. We learned how to hold them, and all that fun stuff. It was then time to move into the hallway to get started! The SWAT team had become the victims, spread throughout the hallway with tables and chairs thrown around. We started moving towards the gunfire, a man jumped out of the bathroom yelling, "don't shoot me don't shoot me" we kept moving. We came to the room yielding the gunfire, I entered first to see a man holding a gun at a man's head. I shot at the man holding the gun, and I hit him! We kept shooting until he fell to the ground, but we found out someone on our team had shot the hostage. Later, while talking to the SWAT officer, in our group debriefing, he said he was surprised with how well I did leading the group. He was also told me he was surprised by how well I did, and that I hit the target. Apparently some people didn’t think I would have good aim? Haha.

It was then time to switch out to

* Traffic Stop

I didn’t enjoy this one as much, it was just the officer talking about a traffic stop, he had a car pulled over with a gun on the dash and drugs in the drink holder. Nothing was new or surprising to hear, it was just ok.

* DUII

This was a lecture about DUI’s. This was another just ok, not very surprising at all. The only thing I really found interesting from this was that you can be charged with a DUI on a horse. The officer was really nice, and you could tell he wanted to be doing more than just lecturing, but because of the time limitations he couldn’t do anything more. He also didn’t seem like he had much planning time to prepare.

* Crime Scene

This was my third favorite part of the day! We walked in and met two detectives from Central Point, both were really nice. They had real crime scene photos, and showed us cool techniques and some real life CSI stuff. Like the magnetic dust powder! It was sooo cool!! It made the print cleaner, and wasted less powder while making the print just as well. It was also surprising to hear that DNA takes about a year to get back, and rushed is still 6-8 months! Fingerprints are also something that take a long time, they are not just instantly put into the computer system, they are first hand looked at, by two technicians and then finally put into the system. This is obviously not what we see on tv.

* K-9

This was my second favorite part! The officer was really nice, and did a lecture then simulation. He specializes in finding drugs, mostly through traffic stops. He has his dog, Quincey with him pretty much always. Quincey is a black lab, who is very hyper and muscular. I have never seen a dog with so much muscle! He is trained to find cocaine, marijuana, meth and heroin… When he smells one of these, he will being scratching.. Scratching the car.. Sucks for them! Ahah shouldn’t have it anyways! Also, he did a simulation where he had some pot in a duffle bag, he had a bunch lined up on the ground and had Quincey find it. As soon as he started scratching, the officer threw a rolled up towel for Quincey to get.. After he had that towel he didn't care what happened to the bag! He just wanted that towel. He was a total puppy! So the officer was telling us about life with Quincey and how much he loves his job. He also joked about how unprotective Quincey is over him, he said we could beat him up and Quincey wouldn't do anything.. as long as he got his towel. LOL He told us a lot of stories that have happened recently.. Just today he stopped a guy with a pound of marijuana. He really sold his job and I must admit it was a convincing argument.

Overall, today was amazing. It was a great experience and I am kinda regretting not doing it before! One of the other rotations that I didn’t do had tasers! And a few students decided to get tazed.. I don’t know that I would have done that, but it would have been interesting to see!

Anyways, on a more photographic topic.. If I see pictures from today I will be sure to post them! And hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon!!

So sorry for the length! It was just a great experience, and I wanted to share with someone!

Whoa

So I was just looking at photos online, and I stumbled across this artist named Martin Stranka, he is from Prague. He has done work for commercials, and coffee shops as well as many others. His photos are pretty dark, not much color to them, they have a sort of eerie feel to them. Almost like in a dream. But they are so amazing. His work is really well done, each photo tells a story.

I think you should check him out!

http://www.martinstranka.com/

As for me, no new stuff yet. So enjoy his!

Migraine Post!

This is part two of the Daddy's camera pictures. These ones I think are better. I think the third one is the best from this roll. hopefully the rest will turn out good like that. Next roll is black and white. Soooo we shall see!

So I had a migraine all day, I slept until like 6 pm when finally it was feeling ok enough that I could get up. Now to do all the homework that was supposed to be done all day today. YAY.

Until next time..

I don't know what to say now.

Bye!!