A Look Back at a Cross-Country Adventure Through Distorted Film Photos & Old Journal Entries
Within a one month time span during the summer when I was 25, I got laid off from my first “real” job out of college, decided it was time to end the eight-year relationship I had been in since I was a teenager, and proceeded to reply an enthusiastic “Yep!” when a long-lost friend posted to Facebook, “Anyone have a few weeks to drive cross-country with me?”
Places: Lo-Fi Photography from Another Time
“Remember places?” That’s what my friend Kim texted back after I excitedly sent her a bunch of film photos I had just gotten back from getting processed the other day.
My First Foray Into Studio Photography
Last semester I took a course called “Introduction to the Studio” at my local community college which was all about photographing in a studio environment with artificial lighting (tungsten and strobe lights).
Lessons from PHO 111
A few years back, I completed The Artist’s Way, a course (via book) by Julia Cameron designed to help creative folks move through blocks and re-spark their creativity. As I made my way through the exercises, it became very clear that what was missing most in my creative life was one thing: photography.