I just started a "Digital Photography 2" course at the Photographic Center Northwest. I’ve had two classes so far and am liking it a lot (though having 10+ hours of homework a week is both LOTS Of fun… and a bit tricky). The first assignment was to photograph 15 letters – but not real letters. 🙂 Here are the results of my first assignment – can you guess which letter is which? (You can click through to my flickr site to see if you’re right.)
The cherry blossoms in Seattle started blooming a couple of weeks ago. The official first day of spring was last Thursday. QUESTION: What the #*@(#% is it doing snowing??? — Signed, California Girl (Yes… I did just make you watch snow falling to the ground.)
Every once in a while you capture a moment that’s just too good to be true. While you’re shooting it, you’re both (a) really excited, and (b) feelin’ kinda corny, because the photos look almost posed. That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon these shots today.
A photo stroll through downtown seattle… i seem to have a thing for empty chairs lately.
I was reading the FlickrBlog the other day, and saw photos from their 4 year birthday celebration. I loved the walls of 5x7s, and decided to cover my closet doors with a similar collage of my own photos. For the job, I went to AdoramaPix, which is my favorite photo printing site. (I did a print test from several different places about a year ago, and they won hands down.) Their prints are great, and they run great specials every once in a while. The actual ordering of prints from Adorama, however, has always been ridiculously painful. Adorama’s photo upload …
I just read on the Flickr Blog that Polaroid will be ceasing its production of instant film. The company (now 150 employees compared to 21,000 in its 1978 hay day) will continue working on its Polaroid branded digital cameras & cell phone camera printers. I switched to digital last year. And, I love the power that digital gives me (picture preview, digital darkroom, unlimited # of exposures)… but I do still miss the texture and tone of my film prints. I never used polaroids that much, but there’s definitely a “beginning of the end of film” feeling with this announcement. …
Hoping you had a festive holiday season! Here’s to a joyous 2008. 🙂
Today, my mom planned a “family adventure” that took us to iFly at Universal City Walk. I had never heard of “indoor skydiving” before, but I guess there are several facilities around the country (see this WSJ article). iFly is a vertical wind tunnel that simulates the free fall experience. I’ve gone actual skydiving once. It was tandem, and for me, the biggest thrill was jumping out of the airplane and backflipping through the initial acceleration. That’s when your stomach flips and you have the “oh geez, am I actually doing this??” moment. Once you hit terminal velocity, you feel …
Unfortunately, the arrival home – while appreciated – wasn’t quite pleasant. Monday, my, um, digestive system started to go down hill. After dinner, it was completely shot. I had a 101.5 degree fever, major cramping, dehydration, swollen stomach, and a migraine that went through the roof. Tuesday, I laid curled in my hotel bed until 5pm. I had 2 pieces of toast and 8 soda crackers…. and somehow managed to go to the bathroom about 10 times (only slight exaggeration). However, in the evening, we had to make the journey from Arequipa to Lima to Houston to Seattle. It was …