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Live performances by students from all over Butte County and various community members honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, but will also showcase Black Excellence within our community during “Victory In Unity” a MLK Unity Project celebrating Black History Month on Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Assignment 52 -- Home Town Tourist Attractions -- Ernest Hemingway Birthplace, 339 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park, IL
Oak Parkers are very proud of their native son, Ernest Hemingway. They're even proud of his famously derisive description of the village as "a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds." I suppose that's because they think they've changed.
The Hemingway Foundation provides tours of the birthplace house, lovingly restored to Victorian splendor, with amazing attention to the accuracy of details gleaned from such hints as scraps of wallpaper and descriptions by Hemingway's sister Marcelline. The Foundation also maintains a museum a block away, with photos and artifacts. I do have to wonder what Hemingway might have to say about the fervency of his local admirers. He certainly said many irreverent, puncturing things, though he also said things that feed right into the Mythologizing of the Great Macho Writer (who did not care for his first name, by the way, because of the Oscar Wilde title).
Here are a few Hemingway quotes that resonate with me, while wandering the leafy, wide-lawned streets, on my brief ad hoc literary appreciation & walking tour:
--All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is not a true-story teller who would keep that from you.
-- There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. the old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark is all sharks, no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
-- The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Assignment 52: Chiaroscuro -- or light / shadow contrast
I did want to get a "film noir" use of the effect also, which involved an excursion to the El tracks after dark, & then going back after my first session without tripod was unsatisfactory. Not the most prudent place to go by myself, but without incident---
AAW Assignment-Fancy Pants
When I first bought these suspenders, the wife balked because she said they "aged" me. I promised I would not wear them outside the back yard so we were good to go...
Seems that the wife has now changed her attitude and wants me to wear them whenever there is a chance that I might have to bend over.
WIT: Wife pulling trigger.
Challenge Assignment 1 - PhotoshopGrunge workshop
My photo landscape - sunrise
Duplicate of landscape with render-lighting effect-spotlight from bottom right, masked this with gradient bottom up.
My photo - hang glider, blend mode overlay
Vector from set 12 in top right corner - blend mode exclusion, embossed
Texture - kk_mixed, blend mode soft-mode
Texture - kk_rien, blend mode colour burn
Several additional layers set on colour dodge using different brushes (houses, birds, trees), painting with 100% and then reducing opacity of the layer , as well as masking parts of those.
Added the text of this description to the top right corne
Increased canvas size, used combination of all layers and the vector as frame.
And, I am very proud of myself - I have used a lot of keyboard shortcuts, heya!!!!!
Lots of fun!!! Great way to spend a rainy Saturday morning - thanks Sebastian to come up with such a good idea :-).
Scatter the seeds of kindness.
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass its about learning to dance in the rain.
If it's fall then there is not one girl that isn't wearing UGG boots. They're warm and fuzzy and very fashionable for fall.
Foto realizada en la cueva del Portichuelo, Sala del Piano.
Iluminacion mixta, flash, halogenos y linternas led.
Dedicadas para el Assignment TimeInABottle de Strobist
Compensado de temperatura entre flash y halĂłgeno.
Equilibrado de exposion entre luz continua y flash
Golpe de zoom de tele a gran angular
Assignment 52: "Fine Art" -- Think about what would you might hang on your wall
This was a very interesting question to think about, particularly since I'm likely to be consolidating the art that now hangs in two houses into one house -- the house that's mostly windows. I didn't really come up with any useful answers, but enjoyed trying to define what aspects make me want to keep looking at an image, even on a daily basis, & what I prefer, as far as effect on my mood & outlook from the things that surround me.
The light in this one is so serene -- I'm sure it would make me happy if it hung on my wall. Though I think I do prefer a little more edginess for things I'd keep on the wall.
Autumn Alaniz-Wiggins speaks during “Victory In Unity” a MLK Unity Project celebrating Black History Month on Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
Assignment 52 - Silhouettes
I'm fortunate to be in Georgia this week for this assignment, with fabulous light & horizons for silhouette shots. Since this is a trip to visit Po's son, Hibou, at the field trial pro's where he's in training, I'm indulging in a bunch of dog silhouettes. Here's yet another:
These are all my past assignments, which were done during the time when I was doing my MSc degree at the Oxford Uni.
Can't carry them home, so, I'd rather store them here yeah?
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For Strobist Lighting 102
Assignment 1 - Cooking Light
430EX in shoot-thru umbrella to camera left at 1/4 power. 430EX with CTS gel aimed at wall at 1/16 power, 70mm zoom. Shot in manual. Triggered with an ST-E2.
Strobist.com - Strobist102 Assignment: to photograph one or more kitchen utensils - knives, forks, spoons, whisks - whatever you like. The look you are going or is that of ordinary object elevated to high art. Or at least commercial art, as this is the kind of thing that might appear as a catalog cover or in a calendar or on the wall of one of those ubiquitous "fast casual" restaurants.
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
I decided that I liked this image so I threw it in the mix at PW Assignment.
Taken at my daughter's home.
For this assignment, I chose to emulate the postmodernism style of Andy Warhol. He was also who I chose for the photographer's style I believed would last for another 100 years to come given his unique take on modernistic photography. I particularly went on to mimic his canned food photographs where he basically took a simple photograph of a Campbell Soup Can and then duplicated them a couple of times with each being a different color. I did the same using a can of sleeping pills of which I took an original photograph and then duplicated it 6 times. Then I edited the photographs to each be a different shade/tint to emulate the same style of Andy Warhol. I particularly chose to use this object because Warhol seemed to take interest in using simple objects such as soup cans and add style to them with his modernistic twist rather than the image itself being super exotic or something to begin with. That's why I chose to keep my original object super simple and similar to a can as well. Hopefully I did a good job, thank you!
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
For my birthday I recently received the book Learning To Love You More by Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July. It is a book of artistic assignments that you can turn to if your creative well has run dry and you would rather someone just tell you what to do. That in itself can be a particularly freeing experience.
The catalyst for this image is Assignment 55: Photograph a Significant Outfit. Although the exact instructions call for you to photograph what you were wearing during a significant moment in your life, I tend to think of these clothes as a time capsule which immediately teleports me back to 1978. Plus learning to do The Hustle just doesn't qualify as a significant moment! ;-)
To complete the ensemble you must visualize a few items that I've lost along the way:
1. Puka shell necklace
2. Brown patent leather boots (you know, the ones that zip up the side)
For those of you who weren't born yet (or still in diapers) in 1978, Jimmy Carter was president, the movie Saturday Night Fever was a box office smash, the Bee Gees dominated the pop air waves and everyone was deceived into thinking that John Travolta was an excellent dancer... I guess a some things never change!
Don't ask me why I still keep these clothes tucked away in the back of my closet. Even if I could lose enough weight to fit into them again, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing them in public. I guess it's just something I bring out every few years to look at when I need a good laugh. Also, the great thing about polyester is that they look just as good today as they day I bought them!
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - August 27:Gala Dinner at Scots College August 27, 2016 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/ www.scotscollege.school.nz/)
When we disconnect from the source of the conveniences in our lives, whether they are as simple as switching on a light or as complex as bringing food to table, we lose a little bit of our appreciation for the amazing complexity of the world.
Nothing special about this one; I was playing with the 50 mm lens and depth of field.
Assignment - Light : This is the second in a series of assignments that I am working on with my friend Colorblindpicasso. We started a monthly photographic assignment to challenge ourselves to become better photographers, both technically and artistically. In this case, he's got me beat. Not only are his photos for the assignment awesome, he also got them in on time :)
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