So Monday January 26th, I finished my one class at 11:30am and decided to take a walking tour of the city, heading South from the Little Mermaid to the Black Diamond. I encountered some interesting sights including a windmill, military exercise, picturesque Nyhavn. Wednesday I went to the DR TV station with my Lost in … More City Explorer
Yes I am actually in Copenhagen! As you can see below, I finally took some pictures and successfully posted them to this blog. YAY! Today DIS took us to Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, a town north of Copenhagen. The castle is now a museum but used to be the palace and home of the Danish … More Week One Summary
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
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?
Kirsten Captures 