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This last weekend I found myself on the west side back in my hometown. Upon packing for the adventure I made the very regrettable discussion to leave my camera at home instead of lugging it around all weekend. So, in turn I found myself wishing I had brought my camera to capture so many wonderful over looked little beauties. Most of the scenes I wanted to capture were rather random, anything from the deteriorating backside of a building to the storm clouds rolling in.

Ideas

Over the summer I really committed to brainstorming as many photography projects as possible. I think a lot of the projects stemmed from the Polaroid workshop and the overall timelessness of Polaroids. Here is a list of possible projects..

A study of clouds

• photographed at various times of day inspired by Roni Horn's "You Are the Weather."

A possible example

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light, refractions and windows

• snap shot stye to capture the unusual characteristics of light

Night Photography

•  Possibly focus on symbolism of home
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Other ideas range from making a book and working in a square format. Nothing is set in stone, but I think working at night could be really interesting.

Finals Week

Here we are, at the end of the quarter, its really hard to believe its nearly over already! Last week I printed all the images and even cut the mats. This week I have been busy putting the images together, signing, titling and what not. I even had the chance to show the project to some fellow art student and was able to get some great feedback about which images were striking and which ones were flops.

Overall, I'm really proud of myself this quarter! I look forward to possibly continuing the project and many more photography endeavors in the future.

Last week

After the final critique, I decided to go to one final location. This last place is located in front of Goodwill on water street. I feel as though it really works towards the project. Here is the image I plan on including in the final section.

Photographs

I decided to take a drive yesterday and ended up running across some more abandoned buildings that might work for my project. I also included a couple images that I edited. I realized that I had cropped the top image at a different aspect from all of the other images. The next image down, I spot adjusted the building so that it would appear brighter. The third image, I spot adjusted the top of the house where I thought it was a bit under exposed and lacking detail. The rest of the images were shot yesterday.  Let me know what you think!

Portfolio

I have been working on getting together everything needed for the portfolio. I have finished writing the grade statement. I started writing the artist statement, but I plan on continually going over the statement until I feel that it has been refined enough. I have also started getting the image list together, starting with the images I plan on including for sure. I can hardly believe its already the end of the quarter!

Finishing

Today, I went through and gathered all of the work prints that I have submitted since the beginning of the course. After gathering the photographs, I have been going through them in order to select the strongest images. I have selected 20 images that I think will work the best, I'm even considering narrowing them down more to just 15. I am looking forward to next Tuesday when we have our last critique before the final.