Self Portraits

As a continuous side project I do a lot of self portraiture. They say there is no better model than yourself, you are always available! and I agree with that full heartedly. Whenever I need a break from working on whatever, I love to break out some self portraits, they are like my little vacation. I do them often, and I like to make them as different as possible from what I'm doing at the time, often edgy and whimsical to make them as fun as they can be. This is a set of self portraits I've done over the past couple semesters including some from my first photo class, taken with my 35 mm film camera and some done in my first and second drawing classes as well as my painting class.

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Sparks

"My heart is yours, It's you that I hold on to, Yeah that's what I do"

The result of a rainy morning. They are my favorites, the best to get cozy, put on a rainy day playlist, and have a nice hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa; and that's just what I did. Obvi I was absolutely as comfy as I could get. With the lovely lighting coming through my roomie's window I couldn't resist to snap a shot, gotta love the soft light on all the folds of the clothing and blankets. Like the other self portraits from before they are way to grainy to print, but good enough for a blog post =) Also I don't quite want to give away my new stuff for the crit.

I totally suck at updating this thing, now that I have a planner, though, I should start being more on track.

Strange and Beautiful

Friday already? My my how time flies.

Only posting a couple pictures tonight because my friends and I haven't had much collaborative time to get the shots I want from them yet. I probably won't put these on my contact sheets because they are super noisy since I used 1600 ISO and my room was pretty dark when I took them. A lot of editing went into them too so sharpening them to make them presentable did some damage as well.

I like them alright. I was looking at some self portraits on flickr the other day and saw some that I really liked. I would like to try and get the affect they made on me into my self portraits, but I'm not quite there yet. Also, I need better lighting, lol. The first picture edited a little better than the second, but I liked my expression most in the second picture so I decided to throw it in anyway. Uhm... I guess that's all for now.

Watched Step Up 2 with the suite-mates tonight, kinda feel like busting out some sick dance moves, lol. We'll see what happens. Btw, if you want to listen to some cool music mixes for chilling out or dancing around or whatever check out 8tracks.com, it's pretty badass.

"I've been watching your world from afar,

I've been trying to be where you are,

And I've been secretly falling apart

...And I know, the waiting is all you can do,

Sometimes..."

Northern Downpour and A Roomful of Silliness

It's raining as it was yesterday and will proceed to do today. It kind of sucks cause it's the weekend, but I don't really care cause I love it.

Anywho, pictures pictures, that's what this blog is about. I can never post just one, it's too hard to pick! And it's my blog so I'll do whatever I like. =P

Lex's Ohm necklace. Every time I see an Ohm I think of her.

Lexa being a silly girl in her bay window. Diggin the leggings.

lol, I used my tripod for some snapshots of moi. I pretty much love my tripod.

A break from the silliness. Kind of how I've been feeling lately, dunno why...

Aaaand back to our regular programing:

All I have to say for this picture is this:

Kay, going to the farmer's market in about seven or eight hours, given I can get my butt out of bed on time. Upcoming project for class: EYES, i love them. Alright, peace out!

"Hey moon, please forget to fall down, hey moon, don't you go down."