I’m here! Currently sitting in my room at the Jeppesen’s house, thinking that this has been the longest day of my life. But so far so good. I already met some cool DIS people on the plane to Copenhagen and the hellish registration/check-in that lasted from 7am to noon. It was great to share our … More Arrived! Happy and Exhausted.
St. Pete, Florida: 57 degrees and sunny Brunswick, Maine: 11 degrees, feels like -3, partly cloudy Copenhagen: 36 degrees, feels like 26, mostly cloudy Ok so a cold front has finally penetrated the grossly warm Florida winter. I was hoping for some warm sunshine on my last day to stock up on my supply of … More Hot and Cold
Jeez, this week has been dragging by so slowly. I don’t know what to do with myself. So I haven’t been doing anything of course. Today is my preliminary packing day. Supposidely. However, I slept in till noon and have only managed to eat cereal, make a cup of coffee, bask in the wonderful sun … More 3 more days: Fashion crisis
So in exactly one week, I will be sitting on a plane about one hour away from touchdown in Copenhagen. I will probably be exhausted, hungry, nervous to the point of a stomach ache, and undeniably excited. Hopefully that last emotion will cancel out all the rest. Most of my other friends going abroad this … More Countdown: one week
My initial idea for the final project was to create three panoramas of stitched together sky, houses, and ground landscapes. I enjoyed the panorama project and wanted to create something more traditional than a fictional mirage and something of the sky in all its bright glory. I was able to shoot on a very sunny … More Thoughts on Final Project
Carl Mydan’s war photography is absolutely stunning in composition, style, and subject matter. He photographed some of the major events in our world’s history and made photography crucial in journalism. Personally, I have never heard of him before which surprised me after looking at his work. Reading his obituary and the captions associated with his … More Carl Mydan
The human body is a beautiful thing and has every right to be photographed and categorized as art. However, I don’t really get how pornography photography fits into this category. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I felt extremely uncomfortable viewing Elsbeth’s slide show. You don’t see things like that every day. And ultimately … More Pornography and art?
When comparing Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the US Japanese Internment camps, I am left with two completely different readings of this era and life of the involved people. Adams portrays the Japanese people going about their daily lives as if there is nothing abnormal about their situation. It seems like Adams is … More US Japanese Internment Perspectives-Adams vs. Lange
Initially I was obsessed with the idea of panoramas. I took my first shots at Hubbard Hall and the Photoshop stitching blew me away. The question though, was how to make a panorama interesting and unique? I went out to the quad at night, took the standard night time photos, and got bored. For two … More Thoughts on Panorama
I was fairly shocked to learn that baby photography originated with racist and “scientific” purposes. Well I was shocked, but not surprised. This idea of eugenics as a documentation of children’s physical, “racial” characteristic development is meant to ensure a pure, white genealogy without defect. The baby book has become a relatively normal process for … More Baby Photography and Family
Kirsten Captures 