UMDSt Final Logo

Here's the logo for minimalist posters. You should be able to download it!

photo from my project :. my people

the difference between large/extra large is much to large, so here's (unfortunately) the smaller version. 

conflict//tension

here are three pictures with conflict and tension, with different compositional styles.

design vs. nature

dirt vs. humans

new vs. broken

W E E K L Y review

This was a surprisingly calm week, but I'm just waiting for the mess of a hurricane of work that is about to attack me. I can already feel it and it's already making me anxious, so here's to one of my last free(ish) evenings!
This week I:

• Took so so many pictures that I won't link to all of them, just scroll down on my blog and you can see each different post (which you should do)
• Talked about a "windows and doors" theme
• Responded to "Masters of Photography", which was about Diana Arbus
• Didn't take enough naps

I'm really enjoying our photography section. I'm pretty excited for my photography essay and I can't wait to take all my pictures and compile them. I won't tell you what it is because that's a secret and that's the fun part! But I can tell you that it'll be great.

In the midst of our upcoming final week of class, I can't seem to grasp exactly how fast this semester has gone by. It seems like just a week ago we were working with video, when that was at the beginning of the semester! I'm pretty scared about how fast time has been going but, unfortunately, there really isn't anything I can do about it. 

So, here's to the future.

(and also here's an adorable picture of a cat I found)

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response: masters of photography

First off can we talk about how amazingly 70s this documentary was? The hair, the clothes, the drugged-out speeches from different people interviewed - it was perfect. And I really really loved that.
This was an absolutely amazing documentary. I really loved Diane's pictures and, even more so, her motives (or lack thereof) behind them. I fell in love with her way of seeing the world; her photographs weren't claiming to be anything specific, just a bit of time captured at the right place at the right moment.
John Szarkowski, the man at the end of the documentary, explains Diane's work perfectly: she knew she was an artist, but trying to defy that was her work. This is basically what I got from his description, and I think it's completely accurate. Even just in hearing what she has to say about her pictures, we can tell that she isn't trying so hard. She isn't trying to be this amazing artist who captures all these unconventional photos - she just takes them, and she loves them, and that's that.
One of my favorite parts of the documentary was when she was talking about her relationship with cameras. She described them as being "recalcitrant", which I loved. She talks about how, as a photographer, you have an image in your mind when you're placed behind a camera. You have an image, and the camera also has an image, but a different one. You may be determined to do one thing, and the camera is determined to so you have to "fuse what you want and what the camera wants". I really loved that she said this because it couldn't be closer from the truth. Even in our day and age when we have the most advanced cameras, a photographer will never be able to truly get what he/she sees exactly as he/she sees it, through a camera lens. Which is both tragic and amazing.

Here's my favorite shot from the documentary:

Check out that woman's hairstyle! And the baby and crazy little boy and their studly dad. It's a great portrait. 

daily s h o o t : shadow

daily s h o o t : something ugly made beautiful

this, this is a toilet.